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MISTICA: Workshop on ICTs and Development

From: Yacine Khelladi ([email protected])
Date: Sat Aug 04 2001 - 09:39:04 AST

> ONE-DAY WORKSHOP: ICTs and DEVELOPMENT
>
> A one-day workshop on 'Information and Communication
> Technologies and Development' is to be held on September
> 11th in Manchester, England, as part of the 2001 UK
> Development Studies Association Conference.
>
> The following papers will be presented at the workshop:
> - ICTs and Growth of Peri-Urban Informal Sector Enterprises
> (Rob Aley)
> - International Organisations and ICTs for Development: Role
> of the World Bank (Saheer Al Jaghoub)
> - ICTs and Governance: Experience of South Indian States
> (T.G. Arun)
> - Studying Information Systems in Development: The Concept
> of Context (Chrisanthi Avgerou & Shirin Madon)
> - Measuring Access and Use of ICTs on the Household Level:
> Concepts and Empirical Aspects (Romeo Bertolini)
> - Education, Exclusion and Poverty in the ICT Age (Kevin
> Carey & Rosario Gracia-Luque)
> - Realising the Impact of Internet Technologies in Africa (Mike
> Chivanga)
> - What Economic and Social Implications do ICTs Have for
> Poor Countries: The Case of Mozambique (Mridul Chowdhury
> & Magda Ismail)
> - Adoption, Implementation and Impact of ICTs in the Small
> Enterprise Sector in Botswana: Implications for Pro-Growth
> and Pro-Poor Policy Agendas (Richard Duncombe)
> - Donors, Development and ICTs: Blind Spots and Dazzle
> Spots (Richard Heeks)
> - Knowledge and Information Systems: How do the Urban Poor
> Access Information and Knowledge to Support Their
> Livelihood Strategies? (Lucky Lowe)
> - The Promise of e-Business for South Africa: Evidence from
> Two Buyer-Driven Value Chains (Gunasagren Moodley &
> Benjamin Roberts)
> - BytesForAll: Another Way of Doing Things in South Asia
> (Frederick Noronha & Partha Sarkar)
> - Information Systems in Urban and Rural Communities (Clare
> O'Farrell)
> - Information, Knowledge and Development (Mike Powell)
> - Basic Telecommunications in Rural Areas: The Case of Laos
> (Gi-Soon Song)
> - Disseminating Development Research via the Internet:
> Website Best Practices (Jon Taylor & John Bywater)
>
> We encourage you to attend the workshop. To do so, please
> register by printing and returning the booking form found at the
> DSA conference Web page:
> http://www.man.ac.uk/idpm/dsa01.html
>
> Please note that payment must be sent with your registration
> form, and both should be received by AUGUST 17th. The fee
> for the workshop is �120 including one night's accommodation,
> or �70 for attendance only. Both fees include Conference
> Dinner, lunch and teas/coffees.
>
> The workshop will begin at 9am on September 11th and will
> finish at 5.45 pm. It will be held as part of the DSA conference
> at Owens Park Hall of Residence, 293 Wilmslow Road,
> Fallowfield in Manchester. Accommodation will also be in
> Owens Park. A creche is available from 9am to 5pm. The
> Conference Dinner will be held from 7pm in Manchester Town
> Hall.
>
> The workshop is organised by the DSA's Science, Technology
> and Development study group, and supported by the
> International Federation for Information Processing Working
> Group 9.4 on 'Social Implications of Computers in Developing
> Countries'.
>
> If you have any queries about the workshop, do please get in
> touch.
> Richard Heeks
> Email: [email protected]
> IDPM Web: http://www.man.ac.uk/idpm

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