Post Conference Report
4th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies
Royal Holloway University of London
December 13-16th 2010
Report prepared by: Peter Dell’Osa - Conference Project Manager, Tim Unwin - Conference Chair, and Dorothea Kleine - General Programme Chair
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Contents
Quick Conference facts ...... 3 Acknowledgements ...... 4 Introduction ...... 6 The Setting ...... 7 The Programme ...... 8 Sponsors and Partners ...... 13 A broad mix of participants ...... 14 Scholarship Awards ...... 17 Social and Digital Media ...... 21 Sustainability ...... 22 Social Events ...... 23 Further Information and links ...... 24 Appendix A – ICTD 2010 Conference Organisers ...... 25 Appendix B – ICTD 2010 Sessions ...... 29 Appendix C – ICTD 2010 Papers...... 32 Appendix D – ICTD 2010 Demos ...... 34 Appendix E – ICTD 2010 Posters ...... 35 Appendix F – Regional distribution of participants ...... 38 Appendix G – Participant costs ...... 39
Table of Figures Figure 1 Regional distribution of conference participants……………………………………………………..14 Figure 2 Comparison with ICTD 2009 - Percentage of participants from each region ...... 15 Figure 3 Organisations represented……………………………………………………………………………………...16 Figure 4 Participants who received scholarship awards as a share of all delegates ...... 17 Figure 5 Types of Scholarship Award ...... 18 Figure 6 Regional Distribution of Scholarship recipients ...... 19 Figure 7 The difference scholarships made the to the overall mix of participants ...... 19 Figure 8 Reasons for Scholarship Awards…………………………………………………………………………..…20
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Quick Conference facts
The Conference When: Monday 13th December to Thursday 16th December 2010 Where: Royal Holloway, University of London
Participants Number: 520 From: 59 different countries, over 5 different continents Scholarships: 92 participants (18 per cent) received a scholarship
Academic Programme Sessions: 41 Posters: 35 Demos: 18 Hands-on workshops: 2 Keynotes: 2
Supporters Sponsors: 10 Partners: 20 Exhibitors: 8
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Acknowledgements The conference would not have been possible without the support and contribution of many people. Above all, four colleagues at Royal Holloway, University of London, did the vast bulk of the administration and ensured that the actual delivery of the conference ran smoothly: Peter Dell’Osa (our Project Manager), Matthew Woodham (Account Executive, Facilities Management), Sandie Venables (Kinetics Systems and Conference Management Officer, Facilities Management), and Caitlin Bentley (Conference Assistant). We owe them a huge debt of gratitude.
It was a great pleasure for us to work closely with Kentaro Toyama (University of California, Berkeley) who was Programme Committee Chair and led the peer review process for the conference papers and posters. He also provided the point of contact for us with the ICTD Advisory Board, and proffered many helpful suggestions as we developed the conference. We are also particularly grateful to Bernadine Dias and her team from ICTD2009 hosted at Carnegie Mellon University in Doha who provided excellent advice, numerous insights and valuable support.
Without the sponsors and partners, we would not have been able to bring so many people from across the world to participate, and so we are immensely grateful to them, not only for the funding that they provided, but also for their enthusiastic commitment to making ICTD2010 the innovative and exciting gathering that it was.
In terms of the programme, we are hugely grateful to Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Geoff Walsham for their inspirational contributions. Many other people contributed to the development of the programme itself, and we would especially like to thank the following: Kostas Stathis (Co-Chair) and all members of the Sessions Committee; Eduardo Villanueva (Chair) and members of the Spanish Language Committee; the French Language Committee; Ineke Buskens (Chair) and members of the Online Interactive Session Committee; David Grimshaw (Chair) and members of the Demos Committee; G. Harindranath (responsible for the publishers’ exhibition); Andrea Burris and Roberta Bernardi (Scholarships Committee); Lisa Cespedes (New Media Co-Ordinator); Wouter Geerts (Sustainability Policy); Jenny Kynaston (design and signage); David House and Win Min Tun (IT); and all members of the Senior Programme Committee and the Programme Committee who undertook the paper review process. We would also like to thank the organizers of sessions who shaped specific parts of the conference with us to make it a diverse and lively whole, as well as all the participants and presenters who contributed to the conference. An especial thank you is due to Isabella Rega and Christian Milani at the New Media in Education Lab at the Università della Svizzera italiana who developed and hosted the conference web-site.
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During the conference itself, we were supported by staff from the College’s Facilities Management and Catering departments as well as some 30 volunteers, led by Endrit Kromidha. Most of these were postgraduate and undergraduate students at Royal Holloway, University of London, but it was also good to welcome people from far and wide who were willing to volunteer their services. Without their enthusiastic support, we could not possibly have delivered such a smooth event. It was also very good to have colleagues from IPID (the International Network for PG Students in ICT4D) contributing so fully in the conference, especially through jointly convening the day-long postgraduate session alongside our own postgraduate community in the ICT4D Collective. Ugo Vallauri, another postgraduate at Royal Holloway, University of London, co-designed and organised the social programme, and it was great to enjoy the series of events that he arranged for delegates in the evenings. Particular thanks to Fftang! Fftang! for getting us dancing. As conference participants who stayed on over the following weekend will be aware, south-east England was struck by deep snow on the 18th December 2010, and we are very appreciative of the efforts of all those who helped delegates eventually return to their places of origin once the airports had reopened.
We are also particularly grateful to Paul Layzell, the Principal of Royal Holloway, University of London, for permitting us to use the College facilities, and speaking at the reception. The College is delighted to host the UNESCO Chair in ICT4D, and in this role it was excellent to see so many colleagues from the Communication and Information Division of UNESCO’s headquarters in Paris, as well as from the UK National Commission for UNESCO, participating in the conference.
Finally, we would like to thank all of the delegates who made the conference what it was. It was really excellent to have been able to provide an opportunity for so many people interested in ICT4D to come together to push the boundaries of our understandings forward, and we look forward to building on the relationships forged at ICTD2010 in the future.
We wish Michael Best and the team at Georgia Tech well for ICTD2012, and hope that the material contained in this report will be of help to them and others in the future as they plan the next ICTD conferences.
Tim Unwin (Conference Chair)
Dorothea Kleine (General Programme Chair)
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Introduction The fourth Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD) international conference was hosted by Royal Holloway University of London (the College) from December 13th to 16th 2010 and was the largest so far attracting over 500 participants from countries across the world. The conference was headlined by two excellent, thought provoking keynote addresses given by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Geoff Walsham. These complemented a diverse programme of open academic sessions, workshops, peer- reviewed papers, posters and demonstrations.
The diverse mix of participants, and the variety of the academic programme contributed to a lively and engaging atmosphere, where ideas were shared and developed. The campus location of the conference brought the participants together outside the formal hours of the conference, as accommodation, dining facilities and conference rooms were all located closely together. They also provided a combination of affordability for participants and the use of state of the art facilities, such as the recently built Windsor Building. A range of social events was provided, including music, dancing, and a large dinner reception. These activities were essential in creating a lively and engaging conference, and the organsiers hope that they have created a legacy of new contacts, closer working and shared ideas.
Demand to attend the conference was high. The venue had been designed to accommodate 400 participants, 50 more than the ICTD2009 held in Qatar, and despite capacity being expanded to allow 500, the conference was sold-out and a waiting list put in place. Many of the participants were able to attend due to the award of scholarships, which were generously funded by our sponsors. In total 105 scholarships were offered, and 92 of these were accepted, allowing a significant number of people to attend the conference who would not otherwise have been able to do so.
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The Setting The conference was held at the Royal Holloway, University of London campus. Set in 135 acres of attractive parkland, the College provided a beautiful setting, and its close proximity to London and Windsor meant that many participants took excursions there. The College has one of the most spectacular university buildings in the world, opened in 1886 by Queen Victoria, and this provided an elegant setting for the conference banquet and an accommodation option with real character. The conference itself took place in the modern Windsor Building, a state of the
art, energy efficient facility.
During the course of the conference 350 participants chose to stay on the College campus, and they were all provided with a range of different accommodation options. Over 2700 meals were provided, catering for a range of dietary requirements and needs. 4000 cups of tea and coffee were served, and more than 120 bottles of wine were opened.
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The Programme The values chosen to guide the ICTD2010 programme were excellence, diversity and participation. This was also reflected in our focus on raising money for scholarships (see the scholarship awards section for details), our reduced rates for NGO and developing country delegates and other efforts towards improving access to the conference for a diverse field of delegates. The conference was therefore explicitly intended to attract not just academics from a variety of countries and disciplines, but also policy-makers, funders and practitioners.
For the first time, the ICTD2010 conference programme was held over 4 days. Days 1 and 4 consisted of a diversity of 41 open sessions and 2 training workshops, while days 2 and 3 featured the papers, demos and posters that had been selected by rigorous peer review.
Days 2 and 3 were overseen by Kentaro Toyama, the Programme Committee Chair. Delegates had been invited to submit papers for double-blind review, a selection of which would then be chosen for presentation in either oral paper or poster format. 140 papers were submitted. Each was allocated to 2-3 reviewers and the papers with the highest scores and most favourable reviews were selected for presentation. 19 papers were presented orally on days 2 and 3 (see Appendix C). 35 papers were presented as posters (see Appendix E). Poster presenters were allocated a space to display their posters throughout days 2 and 3. On day 2 there was a dedicated time during which delegates were encouraged to visit poster presenters at their posters. Furthermore, there was a “Fast Forward” session for all of the conference delegates in plenary during which each poster presenter had 30 seconds to introduce their poster and generate interest.
As a separate process, the conference accepted proposals for technical demonstrations. These were reviewed by a demo committee, chaired by David Grimshaw. 20 demos were selected from the 34 that had been submitted as proposals, 18 were shown (see Appendix D). Demos ran in parallel with the posters, in that demo presenters were also given a space
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for days 2 and 3 to set up their demos and also asked to receive delegates at their stands during the dedicated time slot on day 2.
Inspirational keynote addresses at the conference were given by Sir Tim Berners-Lee (Director, W3C and Founder of the World Wide Web Foundation) who spoke on “The World Wide Web and Development”, and Geoff Walsham (Emeritus Professor of Management Studies – Information Systems – at the University of Cambridge) who addressed the topic of “Development Informatics in a Changing World”. The conference opened with a plenary session on the theme of Practitioner Reflections, with the speakers being Erik Hersman (Ushahidi), Anriette Esterhuysen (Association for Progressive Communications), Anita Gurumurthy (IT for Change), Ken Banks (kiwanja.net and Frontline SMS), and Indrajit Banerjee (UNESC0). The closing plenary, entitled Donor Voices, provided an opportunity for representatives from leading international donors to reflect on the funding of ICT4D programmes and directions in which the field might move in the future; the speakers were Christine Qiang (The World Bank), Pierre Lucante (GTZ), Patrick Kalas (Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation) and Laurent Elder (IDRC-CRDI).
Days 1 and 4 were co-ordinated and overseen by Dorothea Kleine, the General Programme Chair. Having two days dedicated to a diversity of sessions at the conference was a novelty for the ICTD series. The motivation was to provide a platform for a diversity of voices and other forms of excellence that could not be encapsulated in the paper, poster or demo formats. This offered space and time for practitioners, policy-makers, funders and academics to offer different, often more participatory formats of knowledge exchange. The original open call for sessions invited workshops, panels, open spaces, storytelling, exhibitions and even performances – just as long as the format was appropriate for the topic. Any topic relevant to ICT4D was considered. The criteria for acceptance were that sessions should represent excellence (compulsory), enable participation (desirable), and offer diversity of voices (desirable). As part of our commitment to delivering the conference in partnership with other global organisations working on ICT4D, we also invited conference
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partners to propose sessions that were then honed in discussion with the conference organisers. As a result, of these processes, 22 sessions came through the open competition and 19 through the invited strand. In addition, there were two hands-on training workshops.
For the open competition, there was a 2- page submission form on which potential session organisers could explain to the sessions committee their ideas and lay out how they matched the criteria. Proposers could ask for 2 hour (quarter day), 4 hour (half day) and 8 hour (full day) slots. The response was overwhelming: 29 session proposals were received. Each member of the sessions committee reviewed all of the submissions and gave scores and qualitative views on each. The goal was not to eliminate potentially good ideas, but to take some risks and also mentor some sessions into achieving their full potential. Based on these reviews, 3 sessions were rejected, 4 converted into other formats (hands-on workshops, exhibition, separate meeting) and 2 had to withdraw for logistical reasons, while 20 sessions were accepted subject to suggestions from the review committee, some with less time allocated than originally asked for. It was decided not to merge sessions that were thematically close so as not to impede on the authority of each session organiser to shape their own session. Instead, thematically related sessions were grouped into strands: as such, the themed strands of “Gender” (half day), “Openness” (full day), “Methods” (full day) and “Climate Change” (full day) emerged.
The invited sessions pathways also allowed organisers the flexibility to liaise with funders in ICT4D to invite them to put on sessions which reflected their own current funding interests in the field. Organisations which chose to use this opportunity to offer thematic sessions included the World Bank, UNCTAD, FAO, GTZ, IDRC, SPIDER, and the Finnish Foreign Ministry. Partner sessions were those initiated by the conference organisers and hosted by a relevant partner: there was an online conference (co-hosted by the GRACE Network and ict4d.at), a full postgraduate day (co-hosted by IPID and the ICT4D Collective), an Open Space (hosted by Aptivate), a Development Teach-In
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(hosted by the Centre for Developing Areas Research, RHUL) and a Technology Teach-In (hosted by the University of Colorado). Two invited sessions, one on Research Ethics and one on Publishing in ICT4D arose when experiences during the paper review process showed that there was a need to address these topics.
Further, there was a commitment on the part of the organisers to widen the perspective of the ICT4D to work done by colleagues who did not write in English. Respect for cultural and linguistic diversity is one of the principles of UNESCO and one that the UNESCO Chair at Royal Holloway, University of London is committed to. The organisers worked closely with two teams of potential organisers for a session of papers in French and in Spanish. In the end, it was only the Spanish language session which was able to generate a sufficient number of papers of appropriate quality to offer a full session. The Spanish session was a success in its own right and also an important step towards opening future ICTD conferences to languages other than English.
As a result, ICTD2010 was able to expand from 3 workshops at ICTD2009 to 41 open sessions and 2 training workshops at ICTD2010. There were 9 parallel strands on day 1 and 10 parallel strands on day 4 for delegates to choose to attend. In addition, there were two exhibitions. IKM Emergent offered an installation on the theme of knowledge for development. The NGO Insightshare also showed a pre-view version of their “Conversations with the Earth: Indigenous Voices on Climate Change” exhibition and film due to subsequently tour internationally. A full list of sessions is in Appendix B.
The sessions on day 1 and 4 allowed practitoners, policy-makers and funders to interact with each other and the academic community in ways that were closer to their own mode of communicating than academic papers or demos. They offered space for impulse presentations, panel interventions, round-table conversations, story- telling and open discussion. They also challenged all participants to communicate knowledge in ways that were more participatory, diverse and inclusive than the very selective paper review process.
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Many delegates remarked that balancing the rigorous, highly selective single paper strand on days 2 and 3 with participatory, diverse and open forms of knowledge production on days 1 and 4 worked particularly well and helped create the “buzz” at the conference. On a practical level, it certainly played a role in attracting the record-level delegate numbers – many delegates from different backgrounds who had not had papers submitted or accepted saw the opportunity to contribute more spontaneously in the many open sessions that were on offer.
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Sponsors and Partners The Conference could not have been the success that it was, without the generous assistance of our sponsors and partners who provided just under £150,000 of support.
Our Sponsors Our sponsors provided significant financial support, which contributed to the effective general administration of the conference, but also allowed us to provide nearly 100 scholarships to people from a diverse mix of countries, many of whom would not have been able to attend the conference otherwise. The Conference Sponsors were: Platinum Carnegie Mellon Qatar Microsoft Gold IDRC-CRDI (International Development Research Centre) Islamic Development Bank SPIDER (Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions) Silver Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland Bronze GTZ on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development SurveyBe Other Cisco Systems Intel
Our Partners Our partners provided generous support in kind, through a range of different activities. These included convening sessions, assisting with the programme design and implementation, providing specialist skills, expertise and equipment, and enabling participants to attend. Our Partners are: ACM ICT4D.at newMine Aptivate ICWE oMbiel/campusM BCS IKMemergent The World Bank / eDev Education Impact infoDev UNCTAD euro-africa.ict and ei- UNESCO (UK National ipid africa Commission, and CI FAO/ e-agriculture Key Travel Sector)
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A broad mix of participants The conference was truly international, with participants having travelled from over fifty countries bringing with them a diverse set of experiences and skills. The countries they came from were also diversely spread, with just over a third coming from Europe (35%), a quarter from North America (24%), and a third from either Africa (16%) or Asia (16%). The remaining participants came from a mix of Central and South American countries (5%) and the Middle East (5%).
The nationality of participants showed an even broader mix, with 64 different nationalities being represented. Many of the participants who travelled from Europe to attend, whilst living there, were nationals of African and Asian countries. Appendix F shows a complete list of the countries participants came from.
Figure 1 Regional distribution of conference participants Nationality Residence
4% 4% Africa 17% 16% Asia 25% 35% North America 16% 20% Central & South America 8% Europe 5% 24% Middle East 26%
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Figure 2 shows that this conference attracted a significant proportion more European (22%), African (6%) and Central & South American (3%) participants than the previous ICTD2009 conference held in Doha. Particularly pleasing is the increase in African and Central & South American participants, although the welcome rise in Europeans is largely due to the high number of delegates from the United Kingdom (23%) (noticeably similar to the proportion of Qataris (20%) at the Doha conference).
The proportion of Middle Eastern delegates fell significantly (21%), and although this could be expected due to the change in location of the conference (from Doha to London), it is disappointing that more participants from this region were not able to attend. The relative consistency in the number of Asian delegates is an achievement, given the change in location.
Figure 2 Comparison with ICTD 2009 - Percentage of participants from each region 40%
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The conference brought together participants from a variety of different professional backgrounds. Just over half worked for academic (56%) organizations, while the remainder worked for a mix of civil society (19%), government (13%) and private sector (12%) organizations. Approximately 300 different organisations were represented in total.
Figure 3 Organisations represented
12% Academic
13% Civil society
56% Government 19%
Private sector
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Scholarship Awards 92 delegates had their attendance subsidised through the award of a scholarship. Applications for scholarships to the conference were highly competitive and over 323 requests were received. These were assessed on the basis of whether they: - had a paper accepted, or were a speaker in an accepted session (including posters, workshops and demos) at the conference; - were from a country ranked below 100th on the latest Human Development Index (as at 1st June 2010); - were studying for a postgraduate degree; or - were on a low income In all, 105 scholarships were offered, and of these there was an extremely high take-up rate of nearly 90 per cent, meaning that scholars accounted for around 18 per cent of all participants. We were, though, disappointed that some people who had been offered scholarships were unable to attend because they could not get visas in time to participate.
Figure 4 Participants who received scholarship awards as a share of all delegates
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Depending on the individual circumstances of the scholarship applicant, different scholarship awards were made. The majority of recipients (65%) were given what the panel considered a full award, of free registration, airfare and accommodation during the conference. Other combinations of awards were made (shown in Figure 5), which provided different combinations of the elements of the full award. Scholars were expected to pay for any further expenses (such as visa costs and local transport).
Figure 5 Types of Scholarship Award
13% Registration, airfare and accomodation 8% Registration only
14% Registration and flight 65%
Other Combination
Most scholarships were awarded to people from Africa (33%), Asia (25%) and Central & South America (16%). These were three of the four least represented regions at the conference, and without the awards they would have had significantly less participants attending (see Figure 7). Figure 7 also shows that the two regions with the most participants (Europe and North America) had their overall proportion of participants reduced by the scholarship process.
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Figure 6 Regional Distribution of Scholarship recipients
2% 9% Africa
33% Asia 16% North America
Central & South America
15% Europe
Middle East 25%
Figure 7 The difference scholarships made the to the overall mix of participants 8%
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The award of Scholarships did not just provide a broader geographical split of participants, but it also contributed to the success of the conference in other ways. More than half of the scholars made an active contribution to the running of the events, by organising sessions, presenting papers or providing demonstrations. They also allowed more than fifty people on a low income to attend, who would not otherwise have been able to do so. Forty-five per cent of scholarships went to post-graduate students who will have been able to pass on their research to others at the conference and gain ideas to inform their own work.
Figure 8 Reasons for Scholarship Awards 100%
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Social and Digital Media
Those with an interest in ICT4D are spread around the world. Social media has provided an essential resource to promote the conference and share information with participants and those wishing to participate without actually travelling to the UK. The electronic sharing of information had the added benefit of reducing our carbon footprint when compared with its paper equivalent. For these reasons electronic and social media have been used extensively and successfully before, during and after the conference.
The social media websites which were used (figures accurate at the start of February 2011) were:
- Facebook, where over 1000 people joined the dedicated ICTD 2010 group - Twitter, which saw 398 twitterers, tweeting 1766 tweets - YouTube, which had 7,067 views of the dedicated ICTD 2010 channel
These were supported by a regular updated conference website, which had received 44,324 views by the close of the conference.
During the period of the conference all participants were provided with an electronic version of the programme on a USB card. Full papers, summaries of demos and abstracts of sessions were also available on the USB card and for download on the website. Participants were given access to an electronic version of the conference (the ICT4D2010 app) which could be download on to a smartphone, and for any participant without a smartphone a free iPod was provided. This not only reduced the amount of paper being used, but also provided a useful communication channel for conference updates and postings to be shared. All Papers and Posters accepted through the peer review process were made available on the conference website in early 2011.
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Sustainability The organisers were committed to arranging a conference that recognised its social, economic and environmental impact on diverse communities. This commitment was fulfilled by an ongoing programme of activity in this area, both by the College as a whole, and through the specific actions of the ICTD organization committee. They were:
College activities - Providing communal facilities for recycling paper, cardboard, plastic, metal, glass and electrical equipment across campus; - Replacing inefficient light bulbs and fittings, and examining building heating and cooling; and - Serving only Fairtrade tea and coffee served on campus, and providing Fairtrade products in the College Shops.
ICTD committee activities - Choosing the Windsor Building Conference Centre as the main venue, a state of the art building with a 69 efficiency rating (much lower than the average 100 for UK buildings), Energy Star accredited equipment and energy efficient measures (motion sensors, low energy lighting and water reduction measures in toilets); - Using Fairtrade, locally sourced, free range and organic products wherever possible; - Sourcing delegate bags from Freeset, a Fairtrade social enterprise in India focusing on creating employment opportunities for marginalized women. Material and dyes were sourced and used in an environmentally responsible way; - Not using bottled water; - Using only recycled paper and not using paper wherever possible; - Encouraging delegates to consider their environmental footprint when travelling to and attending the conference; and - Offering ways of interacting with the conference online
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Social Events The organising team put a lot of effort into making the conference as welcoming and friendly to participants as possible. ICTD2010 provided social events, outside the academic programme of the conference to make the event more enjoyable for participants and to provide a more relaxed environment for participants to get to know one another. The programme included social events for every night of the conference, including informal meet-ups at local hostelries and more elaborate cultural happenings.
The two key events were an open mic jam session which took place on the opening night of the conference and a concert/djset dance party on the third night. The jam session took place at the Stumble Inn and featured the spontaneous participation of delegates from all over the world, happily sharing their talents with over a hundred conference participants: musicians, dancers, poets, singers and comedians joyfully performed in front of an engaged audience, setting the right energy and excitement for a conference devoted to cross-cultural sharing of different perspectives and experiences. A special performance by Roxanne de Bastion, an up-and-coming London based singer/songwriter, provided a highlight of the evening.
The third night of the conference featured an eclectic performance by the London-based Fftang! Fftang! Collective at Medicine, including a DJ and three musicians seamlessly playing a mix of upbeat world music. Over three hundred conference participants attended the event and quickly joined the festive dancy mood of the party. The performers skillfully blended music appealing to participants from all parts of the world, truly bringing together the spirit of the global ICT4D research community. It was a very successful event. Not only many of the participants were still smiling the next morning, but much of the feedback we received afterwards named this as the best conference party people had ever attended.
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Further Information and links Conference Papers http://www.ictd2010.org/?page_id=93 Conference Posters http://www.ictd2010.org/?page_id=619 Twitter http://twitter.com/ictd2010 Facebook http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=120498319761&index=1 YouTube http://www.youtube.com/ict4dat#p/a
Workshop reports Finding development potential in the scarcity of the virtual economy http://www.infodev.org/en/Article.659.html ICTs, enterprise and poverty alleviation http://new.unctad.org/upload/Summary_UNCTAD_at_ICTD2010.pdf http://www.flickr.com/photos/ict4d-unctad/sets/72157625599132814 ICTD2.0, peer production and open development http://zerogeography.blogspot.com/2010/12/ictd-20-peer-production-and-open_28.html e-agriculture http://farastaff.blogspot.com/2010/12/e-agriculture-ictd2010-conference.html
Participant Reflections http://www.sdc-learningandnetworking-blog.admin.ch/2010/12/08/simple-but-not-easy- why-strategic-integration-of-icts-into-development-programmes-is-simply-not-easy http://ict4djester.org/blog/?p=262 http://www.webfoundation.org/2010/12/sir-tim-keynoting-at-ictd2010/ http://www.scidev.net/en/news/research-on-ict-for-development-lacks-african-voice-- 1.html http://ictd.de http://www.zeit.de/digital/internet/2010-12/kibera-openstreetmap?page=all http://anjakrieger.com/tag/ictd/ http://www.webfoundation.org/2010/12/thoughts-on-ictd2010/ http://www.i-policy.org/2010/12/ictd2010-resume.html
Participant Photographs http://www.telecentre.org/photo/albums/ictd-2010-london http://www.telecentre.org/photo/albums/ictd-2010-london-2
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Appendix A – ICTD 2010 Conference Organisers
Conference Chair Krithi Ramamritham
International Institute of Information Technology Tim Unwin IIT Bombay UNESCO Chair in ICT4D, Royal Holloway, University Raj Reddy of London General Programme Chair Carnegie Mellon University
Dorothea Kleine AnnaLee Saxenian
Royal Holloway, University of London University of California, Berkeley
Programme Committee Chair Kentaro Toyama
Kentaro Toyama University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley Ernest Wilson
Local Organising Committee University of Southern California
Tim Unwin Senior Programme Committee
Royal Holloway, University of London Richard Anderson
Dorothea Kleine University of Washington
Royal Holloway, University of London Michael Best
Peter Dell’Osa Georgia Institute of Technology
Royal Holloway, University of London Eric Brewer
G. Harindranath University of California, Berkeley
Royal Holloway, University of London Jenna Burrell
Matthew Woodham University of California, Berkeley
Royal Holloway, University of London Jonathan Donner
Thao Nguyen Microsoft Research
Royal Holloway, University of London Richard Duncombe
Postgraduate Representative: Endrit Kromidha University of Manchester
Royal Holloway, University of London Hernan Galperin
Conference Project Manager University of San Andres
Peter Dell’Osa Alison Gillwald
Royal Holloway, University of London Research ICT Africa
ICTD Advisory Board Dean Karlan
Francois Bar Yale University
University of Southern California Dorothea Kleine
Michael Best Royal Holloway, University of London
Georgia Institute of Technology Alemayehu Molla
Ken Keniston RMIT University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tapan Parikh
Balaji Parthasarathy University of California, Berkeley
International Institute of Information Technology IIIT Bangalore
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International Institute of Information Technology IBM IIIT Bangalore Krithi Ramamritham Pat Hall
International Institute of Information Technology Open University IIT Bombay Kentaro Toyama Claire Heffernan
University of California, Berkeley University of Reading
Mark Warschauer Faheem Hussain
University of California, Irvine Asian University for Women
Programme Committee Steve Jackson
Erwin Alampay University of Michigan
University of the Philippines Matt Jones
V. Balaji Swansea University
ICRISAT Matthew Kam
Subhash Bhatnagar University of California, Berkeley
IIM-A Sherif Kamel
Richard Boateng American University of Cairo
Southern University Wendy Kellogg
Gaetano Borriello IBM
University of Washington G.R. Kiran
John Canny London School of Economics
University of California, Berkeley Beth Kolko
Jose-Rodrigo Cordoba-Pachon University of Washington
Royal Holloway, University of London Rajendra Kumar
Ed Cutrell Government of India
Microsoft Research Richa Kumar
Catalina Danis MIT
IBM Ann Light
Rajarshi Das Queen Mary, University of London
IBM Colin Maclay
Rahul De Harvard
IIM Bangalore Gary Marsden
Andy Dearden University of Cape Town
Sheffield Hallam University Shrikant Naidu
M. Bernardine Dias Motorola Labs, India
Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar Amit Nanavati
IBM Research
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Joyojeet Pal John Traxler
University of Michigan University of Wolverhampton
Francisco Proenza Sessions/Workshops/Panels Committee
Amy Mahan Research Fellowship Program, Dorothea Kleine Universitat Pompeu Fabra Jack Qiu Royal Holloway, University of London
Chinese University of Hong Kong Kostas Stathis
S. Rajagopalan Royal Holloway, University of London
IIIT Bangalore Gloria Bonder
UNESCO Chair in Gender, Science and Technology, Nitendra Rajput Buenos Aires, Argentina IBM India Anita Gurumurthy
Nimmi Rangaswamy IT for Change, Bangalore
Microsoft Research Shirin Madon
Osvaldo Rodriguez Information Systems, LSE, London, UK
La Planta University Joe Mertz
Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Roni Rosenfeld Pittsburgh, USA Carnegie Mellon University Spanish Language Committee
Umar Saif Eduardo Villanueva
Lahore University of Management Sciences Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru
Jahanzeb Sherwani Ricardo Gomez
Carnegie Mellon University iSchool, University of Washington
Revi Sterling Dorothea Kleine
University of Colorado, Boulder Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Christoph Stork Judith Mariscal
University of Witwatersrand CIDE, Mexico
Eswaran Subrahmanian Brasilina Passarelli
Escola do Futuro, Universidade de São Paulo, Carnegie Mellon University Brasil Lakshminarayanan Subramanian French Language Committee
New York University Philippe Mero
Jo Tacchi Education Impact
Queensland University of Technology Boubakar Barry
Yuri Takhteyev Association of African Universities
University of Toronto Stéphane Boyera
Bill Thies World Wide Web Foundation
Microsoft Research Tim Unwin
Rahul Tongia Royal Holloway, University of London
C-STEP
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Online Interactive Session Committee Conference Volunteers
Ineke Buskens Salma Abbasi
Gender Research in Africa into ICTs for Milburgas Alcero Empowerment, Director of Research for the Future Lina Abu Habib Caitlin Bentley
CRTD.A Roberta Bernardi
Demos Committee Paolo Brunello
David Grimshaw Andrea Burris
DFID, Practical Action David Crespo
John Traxler Sophie Douglas
University of Wolverhampton Bjorn Everts
Basheerhamad Shadrach Wouter Geerts
telecentre.org Marije Geldof
Niall Winters James Greggan
London Knowledge Lab David Hollow
Publishers’ Exhibition Kaire Holts
G. Harindranath Nils Kaiser
Royal Holloway, University of London Endrit Kromidha
Scholarships Jean Damascene Mazimpaka
Andrea Burris Charles Murphy
Royal Holloway, University of London Thao Nguyen
Roberta Bernardi Uduak Okon
Royal Holloway, University of London Yomi Omogbeja
IT liaison Ben Parfitt
Win Min Tun Olly Parsons
Royal Holloway, University of London Carlos Rey
New Media Co-ordinator Saeid Sadeghi
Lisa Cespedes Merle St. Clair Auguste
Royal Holloway, University of London Fernanda Scur
Sustainability Vivek Soundararajan
Wouter Geerts Win Tun
Royal Holloway, University of London Ugo Vallauri
Facilities Management Man Xu
Matthew Woodham
Royal Holloway, University of London
Sandie Venables
Royal Holloway, University of London
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Appendix B – ICTD 2010 Sessions Session organisers are listed in italics below session titles
Partner and Invited Sessions
Open Space for newly emerging themes Link to online Pre-Conference
Alan Jackson (Aptivate) Ineke Buskens (Research for the Future)
e-Agriculture perspectives: enhancing the impact Publishing ICT4D Research of ICT in rural development FAO and members of the e-Agriculture Community G. Harindranath (Royal Holloway, University of (www.e-agriculture.org) London) Mobile Applications for Transformation Across Open Development Sectors Laurent Elder (IDRC-CRDI) Christine Zhenwei Qiang (World Bank)
The Development Potential of the Virtual Consultation on the World Bank Group’s ICT Economy: Towards a Knowledge Map Sector Strategy 2011 Lara Srivastava and Tim Kelly (InfoDev/World Anat Lewin (World Bank) Bank) IPID (International Postgraduate Network in Development Theory “Teach-In” ICT4D) – Full postgraduate day Gudrun Wikander, Mathias Hatakka, Endrit Katie Willis (Centre for Developing Areas Research, Kromidha (IPID with support from ICT4D Royal Holloway, University of London,
Collective) www.gg.rhul.ac.uk/cedar) Randomised Control Trials: Innovations for Conference Reflections: ICTD 10 Years Beyond the Poverty Reduction Millennium Ann Light (Sheffield Hallam University), Robin Dean Karlan (Yale University) Mansell (London School of Economics) Decision making and accountability: citizen- EU-Africa Partnership in the field of ICT4D centred ICT platforms? Ilari Lindy (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland) Lotta Rydström (SPIDER)
Open Educational Resources ICTs, enterprises and poverty alleviation
UNESCO UK National Commission, Andreia Santos (Open University, UK), Ian Grant (Encyclopaedia Torbjörn Frediksson (UNCTAD) Britannica), Bjoern Hassler (University of Cambridge) Nuevas perspectivas desde América Latina en TIC para el desarrollo (New perspectives from Latin Media Literacy
America on ICT for Development) Eduardo Villanueva (Pontifica Universidad Católica Organiser: Karen Merkel (UNESCO, UK) del Perú) Grey Zones: ICT4D, Participation and Research Technology “Teach-In” Ethics Jo Tacchi (Queensland University of Technology), Revi Sterling, Heather Underwood (both University Nimmi Rangaswamy (Microsoft Research Labs of Colorado) India), Revi Sterling (University of Colorado)
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Submitted Sessions
The power of intent and the touch of the Information as a global public good: enabling unexpected: exploring a new paradigm for ICT access to knowledge through open licenses research and planning for development Ineke Buskens (Research for the Future), Mark Ted Hanss (University of Michigan Medical School) Thompson (Cambridge University) South => North: A fishbowl on the transferability of ICTs in income-poor countries to income-rich ICTs, Climate Change and Development countries (debating applicability, methods, policies) Christopher Coward and Karen Fisher (Technology Richard Heeks, Angelica Ospina (Centre for & Social Change Group (TASCHA), University of Development Informatics, University of
Washington Information School) Manchester, http://www.manchester.ac.uk/cdi/). mHealthy Messaging: a worskhop on using mobile phones to support health promotion and Engendering ICT policies
behaviour change Jonathan Donner (Microsoft Research India) and Patricia Mechael (The Earth Institute, Columbia Sonia Jorge (Pyramid Research)
University) Qual meets Quant: Bridging the gap between technical and social researchers to foster Creating, An Alternative international development through mobile phones Vanessa Frias-Martinez (Teléfonica Research); Ann Light (Sheffield Hallam University), Karen Kentaro Toyama and Jenna Burrell (both Merkel (New Media Networks), Clodagh Miskelly, University of California, Berkeley), Nathan Eagle Gabriel Gbadamosi (Goldsmith College, UL), Linje (SantaFe Institute) Manyozo (LSE) Conceptions of Accountability in Policy and ICT for Microentrepreneurs Practice Ann Light (Sheffield Hallam University), Robin Charity Gichuki (Kenyatta University) Mansell (LSE) Opening Access – What gets in the way? Towards a holistic approach to unlocking the power of Citizen mapping and media development scholarly knowledge and information in developing and emerging countries Erica Hagen and Mikel Maron (Ground Truth and Tag McEntegart (International Network for the Map Kibera Project) Availability of Scientific Publications, UK) Possibilities and disruptions: how do ICT4D ICTD2.0 and peer-production researchers use ICTs in their work? Mark Graham and Maja Andjelkovic (Oxford Pamela McLean (Dadamac Knowledge Brokers) Internet Institute) Applying gender analysis to ICT4D projects Mapping out a research agenda for mHealth
Patricia Mechael (Center for Global Health and Nancy Hafkin (WIGSAT/ Knowledge Working/ Economic Development, Earth Institute, Columbia United Nations) University), Alison Bloch (Independent mHealth Strategist), Garrett Mehl (WHO)
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Participatory Video Jay Mistry, Katherine Brickell, Vandana Desai (Royal Holloway, University of London), Sara Asadullah (Insightshare)
How can ICT research better inform and communicate theories of development and globalisation? Challenges and promising directions
James Murphy (Clark University) and Pádraig Carmody (Trinity College Dublin) From digital inclusion to information literacy: an open space workshop Brasilina Passarelli, Daisy Grisolia, Fernanda Scur, Mariana Tavernari (University of São Paulo) Free and Open Source approaches to assistive technologies in ICT4D Ugo Vallauri (Royal Holloway, University of London/Computer Aid International)
Participatory design of mobile learning activities: a workshop for academics from developing regions
Niall Winters and Yishay Mor (both London Knowledge Lab)
Exhibitions PV Film: Conversations with the Earth: Indigenous Voices on Climate Change Gareth Benest (Insightshare) IKM Emergent Mike Powell, Michael David (IKM Emergent)
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Appendix C – ICTD 2010 Papers (All papers are available in full on the conference website http://www.ictd2010.org)
Open Data Kit: Tools to Build Information Services for Developing Regions Yaw Anokwa, University of Washington; Carl Hartung, University of Washington; Waylon Brunette, University of Washington; Adam Lerer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Clint Tseng, University of Washington; Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington Mobile Divides: Gender, Socioeconomic Status, and Mobile Phone Use in Rwanda, Joshua Blumenstock, U.C. Berkeley; Nathan Eagle, The Santa Fe Institute Evaluating an Adaptive Multi-User Educational Tool for Low-Resource Regions Emma Brunskill, University of California, Berkeley; Sunil Garg, University of Washington; Clint Tseng, University of Washington; Joyojeet Pal, University of Washington; Leah Findlater, University of Washington Understanding the Links Between ICT Skills Training and Employability - An Analytical Framework Maria Garrido, Joe Sullivan and Andy Gordon, University of Washington Metamouse: Improving Multi-user Sharing of Existing Educational Applications Kurtis Heimerl, UC Berkeley; Eric Brewer, UC Berkeley; Tapan Parikh, UC Berkeley; Janani Vasudev, UC Berkeley; Kelly Buchanan, UC Berkeley Technology, Teachers, and Training: Combining Theory with Macedonia’s Experience Laura Hosman, Illinois Institute of Technology; Maja Cvetanoska, What Exactly is ‘The Internet”?: The Social Meaning of ICTs and Their Ability to Impact Development Beth Kolko, University of Washington; Cynthia Putnam Digital and other poverties: Exploring the connection in four East African countries Julian May, University of KwaZulu-Natal Beyond Strict Illiteracy: Abstracted Learning Among Low-Literate Users Indrani Medhi, Microsoft Research India; Raghu Menon, Microsoft Research India; Ed Cutrell, Microsoft Research India; Kentaro Toyama The Bank Account is not Enough: Examining Strategies for Financial Inclusion in India Olga Morawczynski, University of Edinburgh; David Hutchful, Microsoft Research India; Nimmi Rangaswamy, Microsoft Research India; Ed Cutrell, Microsoft Research India Collage: A Presentation Tool for the Developing-World School Teacher Saurabh Panjwani, Microsoft Research India; Navkar Samdaria, ; Aakar Gupta, Microsoft Research; Ed Cutrell, Microsoft Research India; Kentaro Toyama ICTD Research by Africans: Origins, Interests, and Impact Paul Plantinga, Monash University; Shikoh Gitau, University of Cape Town; Kathleen Diga, A Study of Connectivity in Millennium Villages in Africa Jyotsna Puri; Patricia Mechael, Earth Instute; Roxana Cosmaciuc; Daniela Sloninsky; Vijay Modi, Columbia University; Matt Berg; Nadi Kaonga, Columbia University; Uyen Kim Hyunh, Seth Ohemeng- Dapaah; Maurice Baraza; Afolayan Emmanuel; Sia Lyimo Research and Reality: Using Mobile Messages to Promote Maternal Health in Rural India Divya Ramachandran, UC Berkeley; Vivek Goswami, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology; John Canny, UC Berkeley
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Managing Microfinance with Paper, Pen and Digital Slate Aishwarya Lakshmi Ratan, Microsoft Research India; Sunandan Chakraborty, INRIA; Kentaro Toyama; Pushkar Chitnis, Microsoft Research India; Keng Siang Ooi; Matthew Phiong; Mike Koenig Robit: An Extensible Auction-based Market Platform for Challenged Environments Azarias Reda, University of Michigan; Quang Duong, University of Michigan; Timur Alperovich, University of Michigan; Brian Noble, University of Michigan; Yidnekachew Haile, HilCoe College Impact of Low-Cost, On-Demand Information Access in a Remote Ghanaian Village Cliff Schmidt, Literacy Bridge; Trina Gorman, Literacy Bridge; Michael Shayne Gary, Australian Graduate School of Management, University of New South Wales; Andrew Bayor, Literacy Bridge Looking beyond ‘information provision’: The importance of being a kiosk operator in the Sustainable Access in Rural India (SARI) project TamilNadu, Janaki Srinivasan, UC Berkeley SPRING: Speech and Pronunciation Improvement through Games, for Hispanic children Anuj Tewari, UC Berkeley; Nitesh Goyal, RWTH; Matthew Chan; Tina Yau, Berkeley; John Canny, UC Berkeley; Ulrik Schroeder, RWTH
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Appendix D – ICTD 2010 Demos
Demos Nutrient Management Decision Support System for Livelihood Security of Farmers Vijay Aditya et al. Open Data Kit: Tools to Build Information Services for Developing Regions Yaw Anokwa et al. Information and services through mobile phones Megan Beck et al. Audio Content Management for the Talking Book Project and Other Rural Audio Knowledge Systems Michael Busch et al. Accessible and Customisable Tools to Motivate Braille Literacy Freddie Dias et al. Bottom Billion Architecture: An Extensible Software Architecture for ICT Access in the Rural Developing World Joerg Doerflinger Using the OpenMRS Electronic Medical Record System for HIV and MDR-TB Sare in Rwanda Hamish Fraser Metamouse: Improving Multi-user Sharing of Existing Educational Applications Kurtis Heimerl et al. Urdu to Devnagri Transliteration System Gurpreet Singh Lehal Cohere: Annotating, Connecting, Exploring and Filtering Open Resources De Liddo Mobile Supply Chain Web Services Ryan McWhorter et al. Methodology and Tools for Community Based Development of Knowledge Objects Zbigniew Mikolajuk Epothecary: Cost-effective Drug Pedigree Tracking and Authentication Using Mobile Phones Michael Paik and Jay Chen A General Modular Networked Biometric Terminal Michael Paik et al. An Inexpensive Novel Technology for Mobile Healthcare in Developing Regions: a programmable microfluidic system dock for basic mobile phones Samujjal Purkayastha The Village Telco S. Song et al. SPRING: Speech and Pronunciation Improvement through Games, for Hispanic children Anuj Tewari, UC Berkeley; Nitesh Goyal, RWTH; Matthew Chan; Tina Yau, Berkeley; John Canny, UC Berkeley; Ulrik Schroeder, RWTH. Interactive DVDs as a Platform for Education Bill Thies
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Appendix E – ICTD 2010 Posters (All posters are available in full on the conference website http://www.ictd2010.org)
Posters
Towards Large Scale Technology Impact Analyses: Innovating the Field Level of Microfinance – A Automatic Residential Localization from Mobile Pakistan Case Study Phone-Call Data Muhammad Adeel, Universität Siegen; Bernhard Vanessa Frias-Martinez, Telefonica Research; Jesus Nett, Universität Siegen; Volker Wulf, Universität Virseda, TID; Alberto Rubio, TID; Enrique Frias-
Siegen Martinez, TID
Organizational, Social and Operational Implications in Delivering ICT Solutions: A Telecom A question of visibility: A rights-based look at ICT Web Case-studyAmit Nanavati, IBM; Nitendra centers for persons with disabilities in Latin
Rajput, IBM; Kundan Srivastava, IBM India America Research Lab; Saurabh Srivastava, IIT Bombay
Sheetal Agarwal, IBM India Research Lab; Ketki Dhanesha, IBM India Research Lab; Anupam Jain, IBM India Research Lab; Abhishek Kumar, IBM Michele Frix, Seattle International Foundation; India Research Lab; Arun Kumar, IBM India Joyojeet Pal, University of Washington Research Lab; Srijit Menon, IBM India Research Lab; Assessing the scope for use of mobile based AppLab Question Box: A Live Voice Information solution to improve maternal and child health in Service in Rural Uganda, Nathaniel Futterman,
Bangladesh: A case study Question Box Mafruha Alam, D.Net; Tahmina Khanam, ClickDiagnostics Inc.; Rubayat Khan, Click Rose Shuman, Open Mind – Question Box Diagnostics Inc. Challenges of eGovernment in Developing The role of the intermediary in community Countries: Actor-Network Analysis of Thailand’s multimedia centres Smart ID Card Project Panom Gunawong, University of Manchester; Dr. Savita Bailur, London School of Economics Ping Gao, University of Manchester Supporting the Information Needs of Mobile Beyond being a Proxy User: A look at NGOs‟ Microentrepreneurs in the Developing World: The Potential Role in ICT4D Deployment Case of Indonesian Food Cart Vendors Shikoh Gitau, University of Cape Town; Kathleen Rahmad Dawood, University of Michigan; Steve Diga, ; Nicola Bidwell, James Cook University ; Jackson, University of Michigan; Jude Yew, Gary Marsden, University of Cape Town Bottom Billion Architecture: An Extensible Cloze: An Authoring Tool for Teachers with Low Software Architecture for ICT Access in the Rural Computer Proficiency, David Hutchful, Microsoft
Developing World Research India Joerg Doerflinger, SAP Research; Tom Gross, Ed Cutrell, Microsoft Research India Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany
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The Role of ICTs on Enhancing Collaborative A ratification of means: International law and Capital in Developing Economies: A case of SMEs assistive technology in the developing world and Non-state Actors in Tanzania Joyojeet Pal, University of Washington; Anjali Faustin Kamuzora, Mzumbe University; Simon Vartak, NYU-Poly; Vrutti Vyas, NYU-Poly; Saikat Msanjila, Mzumbe University Chatterjee, ; Nektarios Paisios, NYU; Rahul Cherian, Inclusive Planet Experiences with a Transportation Information Interactive DVDs as a Platform for Education System that Uses Only GPS and SMS Beth Kolko, University of Washington; Ruth Anderson, University of Washington; Waylon Kiran Gaikwad, Microsoft Research India; Gaurav Brunette, University of Washington; Gaetano Paruthi, Microsoft Research India; William Thies, Borriello, University of Washington; Anthony Poon, Microsoft Research India ; Caitie Lustig, ; Odina Salihbaeva, ; Erica Johnson, ; Cynthia Putnam Teaching with Storytelling: An Investigation of Towards a comprehensive model of the digital Narrative Videos for Skills Training, Ilda Ladeira, economy University of Cape Town Ed Cutrell, Microsoft Research India Ismael Peña-López, Open University of Catalonia
Access, Use and Impact of Rural Telecentres: Policy-making for digital development: the role of Findings from a Village-Level Exploration the government Maitrayee Mukerji, IRMA Ismael Peña-López, Open University of Catalonia
Using System Dynamics to Model and Analyze a Examining the viability of mixed framework for Distance Education Program mobile services impact study in India Kasina Rao, SJMSOM IIT Bombay; Krithi Sahana Murthy, IIT; Rohit Gujrati, ; Sridhar Iyer, Ramamritham, IIT Bombay; R Sonar, SJM School of Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Management IIT Bombay Accountability and the new media: Use of ICTs in The Human Infrastructure of ICTD, Nithya Governance in India Sambasivan, University of California, Irvi Sriharini Narayanan, Center for Budget and Policy Thomas Smyth, Georgia Institute of Technology Studies Using Mobile Phones and Open Source Tools to Gender Matters: Female Perspectives in ICT4D Empower Social Workers in Tanzania Research Daniel Nuffer; Anthony Velazquez, Carnegie Mellon University; M. Beatrice Dias, Carnegie Mellon University; M. Freddie Dias, Carnegie Nithya Sambasivan, University of California, Irvi; Mellon University; Sarah Belousov, Carnegie Shikoh Gitau, University of Cape Town; Ilda Mellon University; Ermine Teves, Carnegie Mellon Ladeira, University of Cape Town; Nicola Bidwell, University; Bradley Hall, Carnegie Mellon James Cook University ; Light Ann; Jahmeilah University; Hatem Alismail, Carnegie Mellon Roberson, University of California, Irvine; Nimmi University; Rotimi Abimbola, Carnegie Mellon Rangaswamy, Microsoft Research India University; M. Bernardine Dias, Carnegie Mellon University
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Evaluating Facilitated Video Instruction for Primary Schools in Rural India Amit Saxena, University of Washington; Richard Anderson, University of Washington; Natalie Linnell, University of Washington; Urvashi Sahni, Digital StudyHall; Anjana Arora, Digital StudyHall; Rahul Gupta, Digital StudyHall Towards a Sustainable and Decentralized Solar Rural Electrification System Nahanaeli Schelling, New York University; Meredith Hasson, New York University; Ariel Nevarez, New York University; Sara Huong, New York University; Harald Schützeichel, Stiftung Solarenergie; Matt Tierney, New York University; Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, New York University From telecom switches to telecenters: Changes in the ‘telecom for development’ discourse in India (1947-1999) Janaki Srinivasan, UC Berkeley Informed Consent in ICT4D Research, S. Revi Sterling, University of Colorado Nimmi Rangaswamy, Microsoft Research India Towards aspiration as a development indicator: the case of information and communication technologies Isha Ray, UC Berkeley; Renee Wittemyer, Intel Corp Revolution through Cyberspace: Burmese Blogosphere and Saffron Revolution Amara Thiha, Uppsala University A Qualitative Study of the Impact of Mobile Phone Usage on the Social Life in East Africa Martin Tomitsch, University of Sydney; Florian Sturm, ICT4D.at; Martin Konzett, ICT4D.at; Anders Bolin, ICT4D.at Investigating Perception Changes in Teachers Attending ICT Curricula through Self-Efficacy Izak Van Zyl, University of Italian Switz.; Francesca Fanni, USI; Lorenzo Cantoni, USI; Isabella Rega, NewMinE Lab – USI; Stefano Tardini, Usi Capabilities, Critique and ICTD Yingqin Zheng, De Montfort University; Bernd Stahl, De Montfort University
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Appendix F – Regional distribution of participants
Location Participants Location Participants
Europe 146 Africa 66
Austria 4 Ethiopia 2
Finland 1 Ghana 5
France 4 Kenya 9
Germany 6 Mozambique 1
Ireland 5 Nigeria 10
Italy 3 Rwanda 1
Netherlands 9 South Africa 18
Norway 2 Sudan 1
Poland 3 Tanzania 1
Portugal 1 The Gambia 1
Spain 5 Uganda 13
Sweden 13 Zambia 2
Switzerland 10 Zimbabwe 2
UK 79
Ukraine 1 Central & South america 20
Argentina 3
North America 103 Brazil 6
Canada 11 Chile 1
USA 92 Colombia 1
Costa Rica 2
Asia 67 Dominican Republic 1
Afghanistan 2 Mexico 1
Australia 5 Peru 4
Bangladesh 6 Trinidad and Tobago 1
Cambodia 2
China 4 Middle East 19
Hong Kong 1 Egypt 3
India 29 Jordan 2
Japan 1 Lebanon 2
Malaysia 3 Palestine 1
Pakistan 1 Qatar 7
Philippines 6 Syria 4
Singapore 3
Sri Lanka 3
Thailand 1 Location not provided 99
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Appendix G – Participant costs
Registration fees Registration on or Registration between before 22nd September 23rd September and 2010 30th November 2010
Full 4 day Normal rate £275 £350 registration Reduced rate* £200 £250
1 day registration £125 £175
Accomodation fees
Cost per night (B&B) - Cost per night (B&B) - Single Twin
Standard £30 £55
En Suite £44
Premium En Suite £59 £80
*Reduced rates were available for the following specific categories of people, and were at the discretion of the organising committee: Students (Postgraduate or undergraduate students were required to submit evidence that they were students at a recognised university) Exceptional cases were alsoconsidered for those who wished to attend and could not afford the full conference rate. This included: Representatives of Civil Society Organisations (including Non-Governmental Organisations); People who are unwaged or on low incomes; and People from countries ranked below 100th on the latest Human Development Index available on 1st June 2010
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