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 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development Royal Holloway University of London 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 ICTD 2010 Post Conference report Page 2 of 39 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development Royal Holloway University of London 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 ICTD 2010 Post Conference report Page 3 of 39 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development Royal Holloway University of London 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. ICTD 2010 Post Conference report Page 4 of 39 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development Royal Holloway University of London 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