All the ICT4D blogosphere (Miguel Prado among others) is vibrating with the Annual ICT4D Postgraduate Symposium organized by the ICT4D Collective at Royal Holloway next 14th-15th September 2006.
The symposium has three main aims:
* To encourage the sharing of research ideas and practices among postgraduate students working in the field of ICT4D
* To provide an opportunity for postgraduates at all stages in their careers to present their findings in a supportive atmosphere
* To enable postgraduate students at an early stage in their career to gain advice and suggestions from those with greater research experience
I’ll try by all means to be there. Indeed, that’ll be a perfect place to present my thesis project…
(thanks Miquel for making sure I hadn’t missed the...
Though it is designed as an open debate among students and the speaker, I’m giving unilaterally a name to the second seminar I’m imparting in Trento — From e-Readiness to e-Awareness (or the way back) — just to give an idea about what I guess it is going to deal with. I was asked by the organization to please suggest some basic bibliography for the students to read and prepare some questions so the debate could be started.
I here present v2.0 of my initial list, somehow improved (or impovered, yours to judge) with 3 more references. There it goes:
Economist Intelligence Unit. (2006). The 2006 e-readiness rankings. London: EIU. Retrieved April 27, 2006...
Paolo Massa has managed somehow that the ICT International Doctorate School of the Università degli Studi Trento (Italy) invites me to impart a couple of seminars on May 25th, 2006. The following day I’ll stay in Trento to deal with ICT4D research and training issues with people from the University. While the second seminar is yet to be agreed the content, the first one will look, more or less, like this:
The Digital Divides or the third industrial revolution: concepts and figures
It is usual to think about the digital divide as a very concrete aspect of the impact of ICTs, mainly concerning whether there is an existence of infrastructures (sometimes computers, sometimes computers connected to the Internet).
It is usual to think about digital literacy as the ability of...
Next May 10th, from 10:00 to 13:30, we’ll have a round table entitled Open Educational Resources (OER), with Susan D’Antoni (remember her, among other things, by the Open content for higher education forum held this winter - and ongoing) as keynote speaker. The event is organized by the UNESCO Chair on e-learning and will take place in our headquarters in Barcelona.
The round table will deal with the following subjects:
Challenges to OER providers and intellectual property rights
Challenges to OER users
OER and University Professors
the latter coordinated by professors Ferran Giménez, César Córcoles and myself — at least, this is what we’ve been told so far ;)
I’m really excited about the idea of meeting face to face Susan D’Antoni:...
Max and I are organizing an informal meeting next Thursday to start something the like of a debate on open access and free software issues at UOC.
We are inviting Xavier de Pedro (Grup pel Coneixement lliure a la UB, Projecte UniWiki d’Innovació Docent) so he can explain us his/their experiences in fostering open access in learning materials, research publications, and so, and see wheter this can be followed in our university.
The rendez vous is at CometaCinc restaurant, March 16th, at 19:00. If feel like coming, just drop me a......
My colleague and friend César Córcoles (UOC professor in the area of multimedia) and I have imparted today a second version of a previous speech of mine entitled Web 2.0 and diffusion of research.
Today’s seminar, scheduled as an activity of the UNESCO Chair of e-Learning, has really been improved by César’s participation, which has resulted not in an actually new version but a new presentation in its whole (César pricelessly helped me through the former seminar and was thus cited as main reference there — he was long due to appear on stage and get his due recognition :).
You can find here the presentation in Catalan (original version) and English.
Abstract:
Buzzword or not, the Internet is changing and the so-called Web 2.0 applications might mean new ways to work in...
At the Faculty of Law and Political Science of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (i.e. my Faculty) we are organising the II Congress on Internet, Law and Political Science that will be held in Barcelona (Spain) on May, 8th and 9th, 2006.
Among other issues:
eGovernment
Internet Governance
eJustice
eBusiness, security and digital crime
Data security and digital communications privacy
eAdministration and Public information
Websites and political parties
Democracy in ICTs
Our guest star is, no doubt, Benjamin Barber.
During the congress, the second issue of IDP, review of Internet, Law and Political Science will be presented. BTW, the call for communications is open and the best one will be published in the......
My colleague and friend César Córcoles (UOC professor in the area of multimedia) and I have imparted today a second version of a previous speech of mine entitled Web 2.0 and diffusion of research.
Today’s seminar, scheduled as an activity of the UNESCO Chair of e-Learning, has really been improved by César’s participation, which has resulted not in an actually new version but a new presentation in its whole (César pricelessly helped me through the former seminar and was thus cited as main reference there — it was far time for him to appear on stage and get his due recognition :).
You can find here the presentation in Catalan (original version) and English.
Abstract:
Buzzword or not, the Internet is changing and the so-called Web 2.0 applications might mean new ways to...
At the Faculty of Law and Political Science of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (i.e. my Faculty) we are organising the II Congress on Internet, Law and Political Science that will be held in Barcelona (Spain) on May, 8th and 9th, 2006.
Among other issues:
eGovernment
Internet Governance
eJustice
eBusiness, security and digital crime
Data security and digital communications privacy
eAdministration and Public information
Websites and political parties
Democracy in ICTs
Our guest star is, no doubt, Benjamin Barber.
During the congress, the second issue of IDP, review of Internet, Law and Political Science will be presented. BTW, the call for communications is open and the best one will be published in the......
Update: Added English version of the presentation. Download it here. Thanks Peter for linking: this version goes to you :)
On March 10th I imparted a seminar entitled Web 2.0 and diffusion of research here in Barcelona, at the headquarters of the University.
Please find here the presentation (in Catalan). Hope I’ll find time and translate it into English and/or Spanish.
Abstract:
Buzzword or not, the Internet is changing and the so-called Web 2.0 applications might mean new ways to work in the research-education-diffusion field (i.e. the University field). This presentation’s goal is raising a reflection and showing a “good” practice in difusion of research, after Ismael Peña’s experience in the area of Public policies for development and ICT4D at the Open...
On March 10th I imparted a seminar entitled Web 2.0 and diffusion of research here in Barcelona, at the headquarters of the University.
Please find here the presentation (in Catalan). Hope I’ll find time and translate it into English and/or Spanish.
Abstract:
Buzzword or not, the Internet is changing and the so-called Web 2.0 applications might mean new ways to work in the research-education-diffusion field (i.e. the University field). This presentation’s goal is raising a reflection and showing a “good” practice in difusion of research, after Ismael Peña’s experience in the area of Public policies for development and ICT4D at the Open University of Catalonia and the use of blogs, wikis and other tools in his ICT4D personal......
Max and I are organizing an informal meeting next Thursday to start something the like of a debate on open access and free software issues at UOC.
We are inviting Xavier de Pedro (Grup pel Coneixement lliure a la UB, Projecte UniWiki d’Innovació Docent) so he can explain us his/their experiences in fostering open access in learning materials, research publications, and so, and see wheter this can be followed in our university.
The rendez vous is at CometaCinc restaurant, March 16th, at 19:00. If feel like coming, just drop me a......
The UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning Virtual University forum on Open Educational Resources - Open content for higher education has just ended.
Here a little bit of information:
Project description
Session 1 – Background note
Session 1 – Discussion summary
Session 2 – Background note
Session 2 – Draft discussion summary
Session 3 – Background note
Session 3 – Draft discussion summary
A couple interesting links appeared (so far) as outcome of the forum:
UNITAR Courseware Repository, courtesy of Zaid Ali Alsagoff
Open Education Association, started by John Petroff...