IPID News: August (2) 2009
From IPID
Dear IPID Members, enjoy this latest issue of IPID News! If you have any ICT4D-related news, please send an e-mail to gudrun.wicander@kau.se
[edit] NEWS
[edit] News from IPID
A new IPID member is born. Congratulations to Florence N Kivunike who had a baby girl last week with the beautiful name Manuela A Kirabo!
[edit] SANORD (Southern African-Nordic Centre) Newsletter
Welcome to the first SANORD newsletter. We would like to keep it simple, reader friendly and accessible for all readers. Our target group includes academics, students and administrators at our member institutions, not excluding any other interested colleagues, and embassies, ministries, civil society organizations and others with an interest in SANORD. We would like to keep you informed of the latest happenings in the organisation and in our 22 member institutions. In this edition we focus on SANORD events, activities in the Central Office, new members and information about funding application. We also refer to the useful 2009 SARUA handbook and include news clippings about institutions in the Southern Region. We welcome similar news from our Nordic institutions.
The SANORD Central Office hopes to circulate the newsletter at least once every three months depending on the volume of content that member institutions submit. We sincerely hope that the content of this newsletter provides you with valuable information. If you have any SANORD related information you would like to share, for example a published paper or book, a scholarly or institutional achievement, funding opportunities, a need to expand your research network, then please forward the information (not more than 100 words with hyperlinks where needed) to Leolyn Jackson ljackson@uwc.ac.za at our Central Office. The complete newsletter in pdf format is available on the SANORD web portal http://sanord.uwc.ac.za
This is the contents:
1. Events 2009 SANORD Conference update Bergen Summer Research School on Global Development Challenges SANORD funds a workshop in Lusaka Southern Africa 2020 Vision conference to be held in Windhoek in August 2009
2. Central Office activities SANORD visits Universities of Botswana, Johannesburg and Witwatersrand SANORD visits University of Malawi
3. News New SANORD members: Desmond Tutu opens School of Public Health Building at UWC
4. Funding applications
- SANORD and the University of Uppsala: Joint application to Swedish Government * SANORD applied for funding from the Danish Development Research Network (DDRN) SANORD contacted UniPID for funding
5. Manuals and guidelines Southern African Regional Universities Association (SARUA) Handbook 2009 available
6. News clippings about universities in Southern Africa SOUTH AFRICA: Monitoring university transformation
- ZIMBABWE: Lecturer shortages threaten mining
- MALAWI: Peace through civic education
- SOUTH AFRICA: Push to graduate more PhDs
- ZAMBIA: University access limited
- AFRICAN RESEARCH: Database aims to put African research on the map KENYA, SOUTH AFRICA AND TUNISIA emerged as the top innovators of Africa
[edit] News from TIER
(Technology and Infrastructure for Emerging Regions)
VLink: Robust Internet Access for Villages Rural areas in developing regions often have poor access to information. Although traditional channels such as radio and TV have broad coverage, they do not provide one-to-one communication, which is necessary for conducting transactions, providing customized training, and medical consultation. Several approaches to rural communication have been attempted in the past, including dial-up telephony, VSAT terminals, long-range wireless, and cellular telephony. Each of these approaches has its pros and cons, but all of them are either unreliable or unaffordable in rural contexts. Our approach, instead, is to rely on two nearly-ubiquitous technologies: USB memory keys and SMS. USB memory keys are an amazing technology. They are cheap, widely available, and have no moving parts. They can carry gigabytes of information and be easily carried from place to place. They can even be mailed in the postal system. These features make them ideal for data communication in developing countries. Unfortunately, USB keys have their problems as well. Keys can be lost and, if they are not protected, their contents can be read. Keys cannot be conveniently shared amongst multiple users. Moreover, if used to transfer data from one PC to another, the sending PC has no way to learn that a file has been successfully received. For these reasons, USB keys are used to transfer data between PCs in an ad hoc manner, relying on users to track transfers and ensure confidentiality.
In recent work, our team has found a way to overcome these problems. After installation of our *free, open-source* software on two PCs running Windows XP Pro, simply carrying a key from one to the other from time to time establishes a secure communication link. This link can be used by an otherwise unconnected PC to access the Internet, for example to send and receive email. With our solution, a user at a village far from the Internet can still send and receive email using standard email providers such as Gmail, Yahoo, and Hotmail. To make our solution secure, the keys carry encrypted data readable only by the intended recipient. This allows a single key to be shared by many users. Moreover, even if a key is lost, no data can be read.
Besides the use of USB keys for communication, a technology we call 'KeyLink,' our solution provides two other robust communication technologies. With SMSLink, a cellphone attached to each of the communicating PCs allows SMS messages to be exchanged between them.
Our software allows email to be sent on this connection for short, urgent messages. Users do not need to worry about their email fitting into 140 characters or about lost messages: SMSLink takes care of these details automatically.
In many cases, rural kiosks are often connected to towns and cities over unreliable dialup links. Our TCPLink software allows robust communication over such links. Our software automatically re- establishes connections whenever a dialup connection is restored.
Moreover, all data sent over TCPLink can be optionally encrypted, making it even more secure.
Finally, VLink continues to work despite power outages or computer failures by storing all data and program state in a database.
To install our VLink, you only need to download a few files and purchase one USB key. Download VLink from here: http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/tetherless/index.php/Vlink_download
More details at: http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/tetherless/index.php/VLink
[edit] JOURNALS
[edit] International Journal of Business Data Communications and Networking (IJBDCN)
Volume 5, Issue 2, April-June 2009
www.igi-global.com/ijbdcn
This journal is also included in the IGI Global aggregated “InfoSci-Journals” database: www.infosci-journals.com.
Special Issue: 13th IFIP Conference on Personal Wireless Communications (PWC’2008)
[edit] The International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics (MCP)
Convergences: Civil Society Media and Policies International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics Special double issue Guest editor: Gabriele Hadl Worldwide, alternative and community media have been on the forefront of innovation. Yet, policies have systematically distorted the mediascape in favor of business and governmentally oriented media. Now, with digital switchover of broadcast media and new Internet policies, what chances should not be missed? What would better policies look like? Who should get to decide? Authors from over 15 countries discuss the role of civil society (and uncivil society), indigenous peoples' networks, governmental recognition, activist interventions, battles for airwaves and a place at the bargaining table, and experiences in creating commons within commercial enclosures. Reviews cover the latest publications in the area. This volume makes the case for a new sub-field of alternative media studies focused on policy.
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journalissues.php?issn=17408296&v=5&i=1
- What are civil society media and why do they need better policies?
(Gabriele Hadl)
- Much more than a little byte: citizens and broadband (Dorothy Kidd)
- At the margins of internet governance: grassroots tech groups and communication policy (Arne Hintz & Stefania Milan)
- Outlaws and citizens: indigenous people and the 'new media nation'
(Valerie Alia)
- Brazilian community communication initiatives in radio and TV digital switchover (Adilson Cabral)
- Policy convergence and online civil society media in Japan (Gabriele
Hadl & Hamada Tadahisa)
- Why can't civil society media grow in Serbia? (Miroljub Radojkovic)
- People's media and reform efforts in Thailand (Lisa Brooten and
Supinya Klangnarong)
- Participatory discussion programs as 'hybrid community media' in Uganda
(Linda Nassanga Goretti)
- Indigenous video and policy contexts in Latin America
(Juan Francisco Salazar)
- Citizen media action and the transformation of indecency and obscenity censorship in Hong Kong (Lam Oi Wan)
[edit] JITCAR
Volume 11, Number 2, 2009
Special issue on Technology Enabled Social Networks
[edit] DESIGN RESEARCH NEWS
Volume 14 Number 6 Jun 2009
http://www.designresearchsociety.org
[edit] International Journal of Healthcare Delivery Reform Initiatives (IJHDRI)
Volume 1, Issue 2, April-June 2009
http://www.igi-global.com/ijhdri
[edit] International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies (IJWLTT)
Volume 4, Issue 2, April-June 2009
http://www.igi-global.com/ijwltt
[edit] Flow Journal
Vol 10, Issue 3
[edit] International Journal of Mobile Computing and Multimedia Communications (IJMCMC)
Volume 1, Issue 2, April-June 2009
http://www.igi-global.com/ijmcmc
[edit] Mediations
Volume 24, No. 1 Dossier: South Africa
http://www.mediationsjournal.org
[edit] Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies
Vol. 30#1 is a special issue on Rural and Community Radio in Africa, edited by Tanja Bosch and Linje Monyozo
http://ajs.uwpress.org/content/vol30/issue1/index.dtl
[edit] International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS)
Volume 5, Issue 2, April-July 2009
www.igi-global.com/ijswis
[edit] International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education (IJICTE)
Volume 5, Issue 3, July-September 2009
www.igi-global.com/ijicte
Content includes:
- ICT Integration Efforts in Higher Education in Developing Economies: The Case of Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
- Dawit Tibebu, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia
- Tridib Bandyopadhyay, Kennesaw State University, USA
- Solomon Negash, Kennesaw State University, USA
A situational modified version of Tearle’s model (2004) is utilized in this study to understand the integration of ICTs in the education process. This study evaluates self-efficacy beliefs, institutional support, and policies in the context of developing economies where challenges of inadequate resources and insufficient skills persist. The authors assess the state of affairs and the challenges faced by teachers and management at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.
To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
http://www.infosci-on-demand.com/content/details.asp?ID=33338
[edit] International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach (IJITSA)
Volume 2, Issue 2, July-December 2009
www.igi-global.com/ijitsa
[edit] Journal of Data and Information Quality (JDIQ)
The Table of Contents for the inaugural issue with access to all the papers is at: http://portal.acm.org/toc.cfm?id=1515693
[edit] International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (IJDET)
Volume 7, Issue 3, July-September 2009 www.igi-global.com/ijdet
[edit] Journal of Information Systems Education (JISE)
Volume 20, Number 2 has been published.
This is a Special Issue on the Impacts of Web 2.0 and Virtual World Technologies on IS Education. The index and abstracts for each paper for this issue and abstracts for all papers in Vol. 20(2) can be found at http://www.jise.appstate.edu/current.htm.
[edit] International Journal of Data Warehousing and Mining (IJDWM)
Volume 5, Issue 3, July-September 2009
www.igi-global.com/ijdwm
[edit] Journal of Global Information Technology Management (JGITM)
Volume 12, Number 3, (July 2009)
[edit] International Journal of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management (IJISSCM)
Volume 2, Issue 3, July-September 2009
www.igi-global.com/ijisscm
[edit] International Journal of Information Systems in the Service Sector (IJISSS)
Volume 1, Issue 3, July-September 2009
www.igi-global.com/ijisss
[edit] Journal of Media and Culture
http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal
[edit] International Journal of E-Business Research (IJEBR)
Volume 5, Issue 3, July-September 2009
www.igi-global.com/ijebr
Content includes:
- Study on E-Business Adoption from Stakeholders’ Perspectives in Indian Firms
Ranjit Goswami, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur S K De, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur B. Datta, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
- E-business adoption towards creating better stakeholders’ values in any business organization should begin with corporate home pages, which is equivalent of the online identity of the physical firm. By taking two snapshot pictures of corporate homepages, one in 2005 and another in 2007, this article analyses e-business adoption levels in fifteen publicly-listed Indian firms of three different sizes and five sectors from four external stakeholders (customers, suppliers/alliances, shareholders, and society/community) perspectives. The authors also measure overall e-business readiness levels from four stakeholders’ perspectives in 2005 and 2007 and analyze the adoption as per stages of growth model.
To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
http://www.infosci-on-demand.com/content/details.asp?ID=33328
[edit] Journal of Information Privacy and Security (JIPS)
Volume 4, Issue 4
[edit] Journal of Global Information Management (JGIM)
Volume 17, Issue 3, July-September 2009
www.igi-global.com/jgim
Content includes:
- The Influence of Organizational Communication Openness on the Post-Adoption of Computers: An Empirical Study in Saudi Arabia
Said S. Al-Gahtani, King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia Hung-Pin Shih, Hsuan Chuang University, Taiwan
To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
http://www.infosci-on-demand.com/content/details.asp?ID=33385
[edit] International Journal of e-Collaboration (IJeC)
Volume 5, Issue 3, July-September 2009
www.igi-global.com/ijec
[edit] CALL FOR ARTICLES
[edit] The Journal of Global Information Technology Management (JGITM)
Special issue on ICT in Greater China Region
Deadline 30 August 2009
http://www.unm.edu/~xinluo/CFP_JGITM_UpdatedAugust2009.pdf Possible contributions may include, but are not limited to the following:
- The economic and social aspects of ICT
- The impact of government policies in ICT industry and ICT application across industries
- Software industry development and strategies
- Intellectual property rights and policies
- ICT infrastructure
- Cultural aspects in ICT development, deployment, and acceptance
- Open source software movement
- IT Outsourcing and managing global outsourcing relationships
- E-Commerce /M-Commerce
- E-Government
- Web 2.0 and its implications
- Digital divide in rural and urban areas
- IT education issues
- Societal impacts
[edit] International Journal of Information Technologies and the Systems Approach (IJITSA)
Deadline for submitting research papers to the July 2010 issue (Vol. 3, Issue 2) of the is August 31, 2009.
http://www.igi-global.com/development/author_info/guide.asp
http://www.igi-global.com/ijitsa
[edit] BOOKS
[edit] Post-Mining of Association Rules: Techniques for Effective Knowledge Extraction
ISBN: 978-1-60566-404-0; 394 pp; May 2009 Edited by: Yanchang Zhao, Chengqi Zhang, and Longbing Cao University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Published under the imprint Information Science Reference (formerly Idea Group Reference)
http://www.igi-global.com/reference/details.asp?ID=33406
http://www-staff.it.uts.edu.au/~yczhao/book-PMAR.htm
http://www.igi-global.com/downloads/pdf/33406.pdf.
http://www.igi-global.com/reference/details.asp?ID=33406&v=tableOfContents.
http://www.igi-global.com/downloads/excerpts/33406.pdf.
[edit] Water and Climate Change in the Lower Mekong Basin
Helsinki University of Technology (TKK) and the SEA START Regional Center have published a book entitled 'Water and Climate Change in the Lower Mekong Basin: Diagnosis & recommendations for adaptation'. The book can be downloaded from the link below, and limited number of hard copies will also be available for institutes working in the region. http://www.water.tkk.fi/English/wr/research/global/publications_mekong_cc.html The book summarises the main findings from an 11-month, multidisciplinary research project that looked at climate change impacts and adaptation in the Lower Mekong Basin in cooperation with several local and regional partners. The project was funded by the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, and more information about it can be found at: http://users.tkk.fi/u/mkummu/water&cc/
[edit] Children and the Internet
Sonia Livingstone, LSE
Published June 2009 by Polity, Cambridge
http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745631943
[edit] The Handbook of Research on Technology Project Management, Planning, and Operations
provides comprehensive coverage of technology project, planning, and operations resources for researchers, faculty, students, and field practitioners. Through a collection of industry practical experiences, this handbook offers a compendium of strategies, models, terms, definitions, and latest in research for the advancement of knowledge within technology and information technology project management.
For more information please visit: http://www.igi-global.com/reference/details.asp?id=34276
===Handbook of Research on Complex Dynamic Process Management: Techniques for Adaptability in Turbulent Environments===
ISBN: 978-1-60566-669-3
http://www.igi-global.com/reference/details.asp?ID=34590
[edit] CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS
[edit] Cases on ICT Acceptance, Investment and Organization: Cultural Practices and Values in the Arab World
A book edited by Dr. Salam Abdallah, Abu Dhabi University, United Arab Emirates & Dr. Fayez Albadri, ADMA-OPCO PO, United Arab Emirates
Proposals Submission Deadline: 31 August 2009
Full Chapters Due: 15 November 2009
[edit] CONFERENCES
[edit] ICT Innovation
Date: 10-11 December 2009
Place: New Delhi
Submission of papers: 30 August 2009
Information: https://conference.cbs.dk/index.php/euroindia/euroindia/index
Topics of interest include:
ICT innovations for development in emerging economies
[edit] Workshop - Strategies to Integrate Human Rights and Development: Challenges and Opportunities
Date: 10-11 December 2009
Place: Turku/Åbo, Finland
Submission of papers: 1 September 2009
Information: Institute for Human Rights
NordForsk Mobility scholarships can be sought by Nordic and Baltic doctoral candidates and young researchers (within five years of PhD) planning to participate in the workshop. For more information about the scholarships please see http://web.abo.fi/instut/imr/nordforsk/scholarships/scholarships.htm .
[edit] Challenges in ubiquitous personal healthcare and ambient assisted living: from technology to successful user-centric applications at ISABEL 2009 - International Symposium on Applied Sciences in Biomedical and Communication Technologies.
Date: 24-27 November 2009
Place: Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
Submission of papers: 4 September
Information: http://www.isabel2009.sk
Topics of interest include:
- Experimental results and analysis on the user experience on tele-healthcare and u-healthcare services
[edit] Mobile Life Conferences (mGOVERNMENT, mSOCIETY and mDEVELOPMENT)
Date: 2-4 September 2009
Place: Barcelona
Information: http://www.m4life.org
Key spaeakers include:
- Serge Ferre, NOKIA, Vice President Corporate and Head of EU Representation
- Bruno Jacob feuerborn, Deutsche Telekom - Board Member of T-Mobile Germany and T-Home.
- Evelyne Rys, CISCO, Sales and Business Development Manager, EMEA Public Sector Vertical, Cisco Systems
- Ken Banks, Kiwanja Net
- Micheal Bull, Professor, University Sussex
[edit] GAID Global Forum 2009: ICT & Innovation for Education
Date: 2-4 September, 2009
Place: Monterrey, Mexico
Information: http://www.un-gaid.org/tabid/1048//Default.aspx
[edit] The International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI 2009)
Date: 15-18 September 2009
Place: Bonn, Germany
The program is at:
http://www.mobilehci09.org/program
Three keynote speakers
- Jun Rekimoto (University of Tokio and Sony Computer Science Lab):
"Sensonomy: Large Scale Sensing and Integration of Real and Virtual"
- Kentaro Toyama (Microsoft Research, Bengalore): "Technology for Global Socio-Economic Development"
- Peter Moeckel (Deutsche Telekom, Berlin): "Innovation in User Interface Development at Deutsche Telekom"
[edit] WEB 2009 - Eighth Workshop on E-Business
Date: 15 December 2009
Place: Phoenix, Arizona
Submission of papers: 29 Aug 2009
Information: http://www.som.buffalo.edu/isinterface/Web09/
Topics of interest include:
- E-Business & Poverty Alleviation
- Mobile Technologies
- Web Based Services in Health Care
[edit] IBIC'09 - 4th International Business Informatics Challenge and - Conference 2009
Date: 25 September 2009,
Place: Dublin City University, Ireland
Submission of papers: 31 August 2009
Information: http://www.businessinformatics-challenge.org/
We invite Bachelor and Master students to submit Papers and real-live Case Studies illustrating how technological solutions were developed and applied for effective information systems to solve the business needs of organisations. No registration fees and participation is FREE for students.
[edit] The International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES 2009)
Date: 27-30 October 2009
Place: Lyon, France
Submission of papers: 5 September 2009
Information: http://sigappfr.acm.org/medes
[edit] 2nd Annual Workshop ICT in Global Development
Date: 14 December2009
Place: Phoenix, Arizona
Submission of papers: 13 September 2009
Information: http://www.globdev.org
Association for Information Systems
Special Interest Group for ICT in Global Development (SIG GlobDev)
[edit] Junior Faculty Consortium at ICIS
Date: 15 December2009
Place: Phoenix, Arizona
Information: http://www.icis09.org/
[edit] eASIA 2009
Date: 2-4 December 2009
Place: Colombo, Sri Lanka
Submission of papers: 15 September 2009
Information: http://www.e-asia.org/2009/Call-for-papers.asp
Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies (CSDMS), India and Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA), Sri Lanka have joined hands to organise 4th annual eASiA 2009 conference and exhibition in Colombo, Sri Lanka to celebrate the year 2009 as the year of ICT and English as declared by HE Mahinda Rajapaksa, President, Sri Lanka and to promote growth of ICT4D, through consultative dialoguing, strategic planning, knowledge networking and business partnering.
eAsia 2009, is the annual international Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for development event that provides opportunity for all stakeholders in the ICT arena to come closer and share a level-playing ground through active conferencing and networking. Spanning over three days, the event will comprise unique thematically inter-related conferences, in the domains of e-Governance, Digital Learning, e-Health and Telecentres, Emerging e-Technologies. eASiA 2009 seeks call for abstracts/proposal(s) from speakers who illustrate innovation in using ICT for development. The five tracks of eASIA2009 are:
- eGov
- Digital Learning
- eHealth
- Telecentre Forum
- Emerging e-Technologies
[edit] Fourth Global Sourcing Workshop - Doing Better Through Outsourcing and Offshoring
Date: 22-25 March 2010
Place: Zermatt, Switzerland
Submission of papers: 15 October 2009
Information: www.globalsourcing.org.uk
===2010 Int'l Conference on Information Resources Management (Conf-IRM 2010) Theme: Collaboration and Community in a Global World===
Date: 16-18 May 2010
Place: Montego Bay, Jamaica
Submission of papers: 15 October 2009
Information: www.conf-irm.org
===Inaugural Asia Pacific Regional Research Conference on Project Management The Project As A Social System===
Date: 25-26 February 2010
Place: Melbourne
Submission of papers: 16 October, 2009
Information: http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/about/news/conferences/aprpm/index.html
[edit] The 22nd International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'2010) - Evolving Information Systems
Date: 7– 11 June 2010
Place: Hammamet, Tunisia
Submission of papers: 30 November 2009
Information: http://www.caise2010.rnu.tn
[edit] The 8th international Crossroads in Cultural Studies
Date: 17-21 June 2010
Place: Hong Kong
Submission of papers: 31 December 2009
Information: http://www.crossroads2010.org
===CPRafrica: Looking back at a decade of communications reform: Looking forward to 2020===
Date: 19-21 April 2010
Place: Cape Town, South Africa
Submission of papers: 15 September, 2009
It is organised by Research ICT Africa in association with the Management Programme in Infrastructure Reform and Regulation, University of Cape Town, Graduate School of Business and supported by the International Development Research Centre of Canada (IDRC).
The launch and first conference of CPRafrica Communication Policy Research (Africa) intends to encourage intellectual endeavour and research in the area of ICT policy and regulation in Africa through the creation of a forum in which African academics and researchers can engage on and profile their research and contribute to global debates from an African perspective. The overall objective is to nurture policy intellectuals capable of informed and effective intervention in ICT policy and regulatory processes in specific country contexts.
Abstracts for papers on ICT policy and regulation research carried out in Africa or relevant to Africa may be submitted for review and acceptance. Abstracts should be submitted to http://us.mc285.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=info@researchICTafrica.net info@researchICTafrica.net by or before 15 September, 2009 Selected presenters will be provided with least-cost travel to and from Cape Town, accommodation and a per diem for the duration of the conference. All incidental costs will have to borne by the participants. Costs are being tightly controlled to accommodate as many participants as possible. Fifteen Young Scholars from Africa will be selected to participate in the conference.
Applications should be submitted to
http://us.mc285.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=info@researchICTafrica.net info@researchICTafrica.net by or before 30 October, 2009
[edit] Eighth Annual Cultural Studies Association Conference
Date: 18-20 March 2010
Place: Berkeley, California
Submission of papers: 15 September 2009
Information: http://www.csaus.pitt.edu/conf/submit.php?cf=5
[edit] The sixth eGovernment workshop - Better Government
Date: 10 November 2009
Place: Brunel University, UK
Submission of papers: 14 September 2009
Information: http://www.iseing.org/egov/eGOV09.
[edit] The 2010 Technology for Innovation and Education in Developing Countries (TEDC)
Date: 21 – 23 January 2010.
Place: Maputo, Mozambique
Information: http://cs.joensuu.fi/tedc2010/index.html
[edit] REPORTS
[edit] IBM: E-readiness rankings 2009
The usage imperative
A report from the Economist Intelligence Unit http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/gbs/bus/pdf/e-readiness_rankings_june_2009_final_web.pdf
[edit] Internet Stats in the world
http://www.internetworldstats.com
Internet World Stats is an International website that features up to date world Internet Usage, Population Statistics and Internet Market Research Data, for over 233 individual countries and world regions. A useful resource for international market research, containing Internet statistics, broadband penetration, world population data and global markets information. The IWS website is updated frequently. Site navigation and usability has been made easy with active links at the bottom of most pages and content menus on the left hand side column of main pages. This site also offers useful links to telecommunications country reports, maps, statistics sources, local directories, and population information.
[edit] The Global Information Technology Report 2008-2009
Mobility in a Networked World
A report from World Economic Forum http://www.insead.edu/v1/gitr/wef/main/fullreport/index.html
[edit] Global Education Digest 2009
The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
[edit] OPEN POSITIONS
[edit] Post-doc researcher Mobile HCI for health (& International Development)
A vacancy has arisen for a postdoctoral mobile HCI researcher at Sheffield Hallam University to assist a 5 year project into User-Centred Healthcare Design (UCHD), and to contribute to other projects in HCI for International Development.
For further details see: http://ntmizar.adc.shu.ac.uk/HR/Vacancies/Research/Research%20Adverts/ACE%20302%2009.asp
[edit] Postdoctoral Fellowship available at NMMU, Summerstrand Campus
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computer Science available at NMMU, Summerstrand Campus, starting January 2010. For more information, please contact Prof. Janet Wesson at Janet.Wesson@nmmu.ac.za directly.
[edit] Consultancy services at Sengerema Telecentre, Tanzania
Consultancy services for the TTN Mesh Shared Wireless Network piloted at Sengerema Telecentre, Tanzania
www.Sengerema.or.tz
[edit] SCHOLARSHIPS
[edit] Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme for International Students
http://www.scholars hips-links. com/viewdetail/ 685/Hong- Kong-PhD- Fellowship- Scheme.html
[edit] COURSES
[edit] New internet course - GLOBAL MEDIA SYSTEMS AND TRENDS
An internet based course for credit or non- credit is being offered by the University of Missouri St.Louis this fall. The 16 week course is on the topic of GLOBAL MEDIA SYSTEMS AND TRENDS. It covers transnational media conglomerates and their impact on culture, language, and society. UNESCO, CNN, BBC, Euronews,WSIS, ICANN, Al Jazeera, and the internet are discussed in detail. The textbook is Global Communication: Theories, Stakeholders, and Trends (Blackwell Publishers) by Tom McPhail who also teaches the course. There is a series of 1 hour weekly video lectures by McPhail plus a series of web based activities. Students from anywhere in the world--with internet access-- may enroll. To register online go to: https://myview.umsl.edu or contact AshleyPaterson@umsl.edu
[edit] COMPETITIONS
[edit] Africa Rural Connect
Africa Rural Connect - the monthly Africa Rural Connect competition for ideas to improve rural livelihoods. Competition managed by the National Peace Corps Association with funding from Gates.
http://www.AfricaRuralConnect.org/
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