<incom> Online Discussion: Internet in African Higher Education, Research + Technology Development (Modified by Geert Lovink)

[Rafael Capurro]

Dear all,

as you know, our center is co-organizing the 1st. Pan-African  
Conference on Information Ethics "The Joy of Sharing Knowledge" that  
will take place in Pretoria 5-7 February 2007. The SA Government is  
sponsoring  this event at which some 100 invited experts from Africa,  
Europe and the US (among them not few from ICIE) will participate. The  
orgnizers are the University of Pretoria, the University of  
Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Johannes Britz) and the ICIE. There will be a  
website soon.

I forward you a message related to ICT for Education and Development in  
Africa.

kind regards

Rafael


-------- Message original --------
Sujet:  [km4dev-l] Online Discussion: Internet in African Higher
Education, Research + Technology Development
Date:  Fri, 18 Aug 2006 06:56:30 -0700
De:  Nancy White <nancyw at fullcirc.com>
Répondre à:  KM for Development <km4dev-l at dgroups.org>
Pour:  KM for Development <km4dev-l at dgroups.org>



This free, online conference seemed like it might be of relevance to
some of our group! It starts next week, so I encourage those interested
to follow up with the organisers.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrea Goetzke [ mailto:ago at newthinking.de]
> Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 12:24 PM
> Subject: Invitation to Online Discussion: Internet in African Higher
> Education, Research + Technology Development
>
> Dear colleagues of the UbuntuNet Alliance,
>
> we would like to invite you to our Online Discussion Forum on "The
> Role of the Internet in Higher Education, Research, Science, and
> Technology Development in Subsaharan Africa". Please disseminate this
> invitation to your colleagues and partners who you think may be
> interested to participate in the discussion forum.
>
> Higher education, research and technology development are increasingly
> recognized as pre-conditions and/or drivers of African knowledge-based
> development. How can information and communication technologies (ICT),
> especially the Internet, contribute to strengthen the academic and
> scientific sector? Can e-Learning bring about better access to higher
> education? Are "open" approaches to publishing and content production
> a solution to the scarce visibility and availability of African
> knowledge resources? Will the Internet help Africa to become active
> producer of knowledge-intensive products?
>
> Questions like these are at the heart of our study, commissioned by
> the German Federal Parliament and conducted by newthinking
> communications GmbH and the German Development Institute. We invite
> you to contribute your valuable knowledge, insights and opinions to
> this research, benefiting at the same time of the mutual
> knowledge-sharing with experts in Africa and other parts of the world.
> As we expect the research topic to be booming in international
> development debate in the years to come, the network that may arise
> from this process might be of high value in the future.
>
> SCHEDULE:
>
> Mo. August 21, 2006 - Fr. September 8, 2006
>
> Week 1: Internet in Higher Education, Teaching and Learning; Week 2:
> Internet in Research and Science ;Week 3: Internet in Technology
> Development
>
> We will provide a summary of the discussion and share our analysis for
> further comments during the month of September.
> With our introductory message, we will share further details about the
> discussion.
>
> REGISTRATION:
>
> The discussion forum is organized on DGroups. You can register by
> email or online.
> BY EMAIL: Send an email to join-InternetAfrica at dgroups.org <
> mailto:join-InternetAfrica at dgroups.org>
> ONLINE: Go to
> http://www.dgroups.org/groups/cgiar/InternetAfrica/index.cfm? 
> op=dsp_join
> It would be helpful if you briefly outlined your relationship to the
> topic in the email or the registration form. Upon approval of your
> registration you will receive an automated email including your  
> password.
>
> If you know of other experts that might be interested in participating
> in our forum, feel free to let them know and forward this message.
>
> Please direct your questions regarding the study and online discussion
> to andrea.goetzke at newthinking.de <  
> mailto:andrea.goetzke at newthinking.de>.
>
> Best wishes, and looking forward to exciting exchanges,
>
> Andrea Goetzke, Andreas Stamm, Markus Beckedahl
>
>
> ---
> Andrea Goetzke
>
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