The International Network for
Postgraduate Students in the area of
ICT4D (IPID) is a network of
postgraduate students doing research in
ICT4D. IPID operates through inter alia
support to doctoral as well as master
students and increased visibility at
international conferences. The network
is administered by the School of
Business (Informatics) at the Örebro
University and funded by the SPIDER/SIDA
- the 'Swedish
Program for ICT in Developing Regions'.
The ambition of IPID is to become a
research-meeting place as well as a social meeting place for
students interested in ICT4D. The ambition is also to increase
the existing network of SPIDER, national as well as
international, and also to increase collaboration among
universities. With
its more than 690 registered members representing over hundreds
of
universities/reserach organizations around the globe, the interest for the network has been met beyond all
expectations.
Seminar on ‘Global initiatives on
connecting the unconnected: Myth and reality’ Date & Venue: November
11, 2011, Örebro University, HSF (Forumhuset)
A seminar (click
here)
on 'Global initiatives on connecting the unconnected: Myth and
reality' was held on November 11, 2011 at the Swedish Business
School (Informatics) of Örebro
University. The focuses of the seminar were how global
initiatives on ICT4D were addressing the needs of poor people,
how the challenges and development effects had been evident so
far, and how effectively ICT could be applied in the development
agenda. Distinguished speakers of this seminar were :
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Rahul De, Hewlett-Packard Chair Professor, Indian Institute
of Management Bangalore,
India
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Maung Sein, Professor of Information Systems, University of
Agder, Norway
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John Traxler, Director of the Learning Lab and Professor,
University of Wolverhampton, UK
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Dorothea Kleine, Director, MSc Practising Sustainable
Development (ICT4D specialism),
UNESCO Chair/Centre in ICT4D, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Åke
Grönlund, Professor of Informatics at Örebro
University and Chair of AIS
Special Interest Group on Electronic Government (SIGeGov)
presided over the seminar.
IPID funded domestic travel grants to some of its members for
attending this seminar.
The 2011 Annual Conference of the
International Network for Postgraduate
Students in the Area of ICT4D (IPID)
was held at
Università della svizzera italiana
(USI), Lugano, Switzerland. This
conference granted postgraduate
researchers the opportunity to present
their work to a diverse audience, and
to gain positive and valuable experience.
It was also an opportunity for young
scientists to network and engage with
international scholars in ICT4D.
-
Dr Wallace Chigona, Associate Professor, Department of
Information Systems, University of Cape Town, South Africa
- Dr Gertrudes Macueve, Director of the
master’s program in Informatics at
Universidade Eduardo Mondlane,
Department of Mathematics within the
Faculty of Sciences
To see the list of presentations, please click
here.
