The registration + payment application for the IPID 5th Annual ICT4D Conference 2010 is now open. If you already pre-registered or presented a paper, please keep reading because the registration + payment is due for everyone.

Thanks to our partners — see below — we could cut down some costs. We are fully aware that the fee is still high for many people, but bear in mind that absolutely nobody is paid for this event (organizers, keynotes, invited seniors, etc.) and all payments are to cover costs.

The fee for attending the IPID 5th Annual ICT4D Conference 2010 is 100€.

This fee covers all meals for the two days, that is: coffee break during the morning, lunch, coffee break during the afternoon and dinner. Per two. Informal dinner for Wednesday night and allocation is not included. Please refer, though, to our Accommodation page for some affordable suggestions.

To attend the conference you need to fill in the following form and proceed with the required payment:

The registration will be open until 31^st August 2010. Remember that there is a Funding opportunity for IPID 5th Annual Conference whose deadline is 31^st July 2010.

If you have any doubts concerning the registration or have any other requirement, please write to us at ipid2010@ictlogy.net. We will get in touch with you as soon as possible.

Last, but not least, a great thank you to our partners:

We finally could put together a first version, still a draft, of the programme for the IPID 5th Annual ICT4D Conference 2010.

We definitely tried not to have parallel sessions, so the schedule might look a little bit tight: we expect to adjust it within human limits in the following weeks.

On the other hand, there are several workshops pending confirmation, so we have decided to, at this moment, put the ones we had confirmed together at the end, with the idea to distribute them along the two days as confirmation comes.

So, here’s the draft:

Wednesday, 8^th September 2010

20:00 Informal dinner. Place TBC

Thursday, 9^th September 2010

08:30 Registration

09:00 Welcome

09:10 Keynote: Tim Unwin: Impact assessment

10:00 E-Government:

• Satyan Ramlal: “e‐Government in the Global South: machine politics as usual?”
• Thiha Amara: “Citizens Understanding of Democracy during Internet Campaigns”
• Jorro Yigezu Balcha: “Standardization and Regulatory Challenges in the implementation of e‐Government in Ethiopia”

11:30 Coffee Break

12:00 E-Learning:

• Nsibirano Ruth: “Setting Priorities: University Students Perceptions of computer and influence on use.”
• Van Zyl Izak: “Virtual realities on the periphery: towards an anthropology of e‐learning and Development”
• Sahiar Alamdar: “MLearning an Inclusive Approach”

13:30 Lunch

15:00 E-Commerce:

• Mwenegoha Theodora: “eCommerce, Mcommerce in Africa”
• Islam M Sirajul: “Agriculture Market Information Services”
• Matevosyan Anna: “e‐Agriculture: Mainstreaming ICT applications in poverty eradication”

16:30 Keynote: Javier Simó: Public-Private-Academic partnerships for ICT4D, the case of Fundación EHAS

17:30 Coffee Break

18:00 e-Health:

• Faisal Omar: “Impact Assessment of Mobile Phone Based Health Care in Bangladesh”
• Foche, Ignacio: “Development of a realtime digital wireless tele‐stethoscope for isolated rural areas in the developing world”

19:30 End

20:30 Dinner

Friday, 10^th September 2010

09:00 Welcome

09:10 Keynote: Vanessa Frías: Private sector-led research in ICT4D. The case of Telefónica I+D in mobiles for development

10:00 Social networks

• Prabaharan, A: “Social Networking Sites: Perils and Prospects”
• Hecita Ian Jayson: “Social Networking Sites, Disaster Risk Reduction, and Sustainability: Mapping the Research –Policy Prospects in the Philippines”
• Mc Lennan, Sharon: “Online networking for Development: an exploration of Projecthonduras.com”

11:30 Coffee Break

12:00 Sustainability:

• Acevedo, Manuel: “Empowering network development cooperation models” (id 26) or “Revisiting Development Cooperation through Networked Structures and Processes”
• Nungu: “Towards Sustainable Community Networks”
• Bebea González, Inés: “Sustainability Action Plan and Validation for ICT projects in rural areas of developing Countries”

13:30 Lunch

15:00 Entrepreneurship:

• Agyemang Nelson Godfried: “Towards a business strategic framework for evaluating sustainability of advanced ICT Education in Ghana”
• Foster, Christopher: “Entrepreneurship, appropriation and ICT Micro Enterprises”
• Sara Vannini: Tourism and ICT: partners in development

16:30 Keynote: Klaus Pendl: Information Society and ICT4D research, programmes and funding in the European Union (confirmation pending)

17:30 Coffee Break

18:00 Workshops

• Mireia Fernández Ardèvol: mobiles for development
• Lucas Pardo: netWORKS

19:30 End

20:30 Dinner

We are proud to announce that the 2010 Annual Conference of the International Network for Postgraduate Students in the Area of ICT4D (IPID) will be held the 9th-10th September 2010 at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.

This is a mainly academic conference, with all its procedures, but much more informal and constructive than usual. Its main purpose is twofold:

• To let postgraduate students present short papers about their research in a supportive environment where they can gain positive feedback from other participants;
• To provide an opportunity to discuss key themes of interest to ICT4D postgraduates. The conference organisers would be pleased to hear from potential participants about the themes they would like to have discussed.

Ways to participate:

• If you are a postgraduate student — master, PhD — in ICT4D, this is your place. Come and share your research, whatever the stage of development it is in. You’ll get guidance and support, and will meet with other people like you struggling in this new discipline.
• If you are a scholar and want to be aware of the cutting edge research on ICT4D, this is your place too: the ideas presented in the conference are always thrilling in many ways. You might want to organize a workshop and/or be part of our senior board that’ll help too in providing some structured feedback to the students presenting their research.
• If you are a practitioner or a policy-maker in ICT4D, we saved room for you too. Though the event is academic in its essence, you’ll see plenty of applied work and theoretical background to base that applied work.

Important data:

• When: 9 and 10 September, 2010
• Where: Campus Nord, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
• Official website
• Registration form
• Official blog
• Official tag: #ipid2010
• Communication offers close 1st July 2010
• Registration closes on 15th August 2010

Please stay tuned to IPID’s blog, where we will publish a link to the registration form. Fees will not be higher than 140€ and we are working to keep them at 0€. Fees will include all meals and materials during the event (coffee breaks, lunch and dinner for days 9th and 10th). Accomodation in Barcelona will cost you circa 50€ if you find place on a students residence (we’re working on that too).

Please send any inquieries to ipid2010@ictlogy.net and, please, spread the word!

We’ve just uploaded some suggestions for accomodation in the IPID 4th Annual Conference 2009 website, especially for those not willing to sleep on campus.

Nevertheless, we remind you that for sleeping on campus you should contact us before July 15th.

The registration for the IPID 4th Annual Conference 2009 is now open and so is the call for papers.

Key dates are:

• Call for papers: deadline 1st July 2009
• Registration: deadline 15th August 2009
• Requests for accommodation on campus: deadline 15th July 2009

Please visit the IPID 4th Annual Conference 2009 website for further and contact information.

The 2009 Annual Conference of the International Network for Postgraduate Students in the Area of ICT4D will be held at Royal Holloway, University of London on 11th and 12th September 2009, hosted by the ICT4D Collective and UNESCO Chair in ICT4D (http://www.ict4d.org.uk).

Conference format

In line with previous IPID events, the conference is intended to be informal. Its main purpose is twofold:

• To let postgraduate students present short papers about their research in a supportive environment where they can gain positive feedback from other participants; and

• To provide an opportunity to discuss key themes of interest to ICT4D postgraduates. The conference organisers would be pleased to hear from potential participants about the themes they would like to have discussed.

A formal call for papers and themes will be issued in May 2009.

Travel and Accommodation

The conference will be held at the splendid Royal Holloway, University of London campus, which is situated only 15 minutes from London’s Heathrow Airport, and 40 minutes by train from central London.

Accommodation is available on campus (at c. £50 a head) or in a range of local bed and breakfast establishments and more expensive hotels.

Paper presentations and themed discussions

In order to maximise the number of presentations, each will be limited to a maximum of 15 minutes including questions. If more than 32 offers of papers are received, we will run parallel sessions.

It is envisaged that there will be 8 themed discussions on aspects of ICT4D research practice. These will run in parallel, so that smaller group interaction will be possible. Suggested themes include:

• Managing your supervisor

• Being multidisciplinary

• Combining theory and practice

• Writing ICT4D

• Working in partnership

We welcome other suggested topics for themed discussion.

Provisional programme

Thursday 10th September

Participants arrive

Evening: Visit to hostelries (Led by ICT4D Collective postgraduates)

Friday 11th September

Morning

• Keynote address

• Presentation session (8)

• Themed discussions (2)

Lunch

Afternoon

• Presentations (8)

• Themed discussions (2)

Evening: Reception (Location to be confirmed)

Saturday 12th September

Morning

• Presentations (8)
• Themed discussions (2)

Lunch

Afternoon

• Presentations (8)

• Themed discussions (2)

• Concluding session

Evening:Possible visit to London (We may arrange visits to events in London)

Sunday 13th September

Delegates depart (Opportunities also to visit parts of southern England)

Workshop team

Members of the ICT4D Collective with prime responsibility for delivering the conference will be Tim Unwin and Uduak Okon. Other colleagues involved in managing the event will be David Hollow, Ugo Vallauri and Win Tun. Gudrun Wicander, Ismael Peña-López and Marcus Duveskog from IPID will also be assisting with the conference preparations.

To pre-register

All those interested in pre-registering to receive further information should send an e-mail to tim.unwin@rhul.ac.uk. Further information will be circulated in May 2009.

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