• Commission on Information and Communication Technologies, the Philippines
  • Working together on eSkwela, eLearning centres for out of school youth - this project won a Certificate of Commendation for the Non-Formal Education Category in the UNESCO ICT in Education Innovation Awards, 2007-8
  • Workshops in January 2006 on ICT for Teacher Training and on Monitoring and Evaluating ICT for Education initiatives
  • Participation in Second National ICTs in Basic Education Congress, Cebu, September 2006
• The Development Gateway's Open Educational Resources
  • the ICT4D Collective is a Cooperating Organization within the OER dgCommunity
• Internationale Weiterbildung und Entiwcklung gGmbh (InWEnt) (Germany)

  • The ICT4D collective helped InWEnt to deliver its fourth e-Learning seminar in Bonn from 4th-5th November 2004.
  • InWEnt and the ICT4D Collective led a session at Online Educa in Berlin on 2nd December 2004 on "E-Learning and the Digital Gap: are we selling placebos?"
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH
  • GTZ participated in RGS-IBG conference in 2005
  • GTZ contributed to ICT4D Collective workshop on monitoring and evaluation at eLearning Africa in Nairobi in 2007
  • Ongoing collaborative research on monitoring and evaluation of ICT4D activities
  • Co-hosting of a pre-conference workshop on the benefits of OER for capacity development in Africa at Online Educa Berlin in 2008, with presentations by Philipp Schmidt, Leonard Mware Oloo and Jorrit Mulder, and workshop discussions led by Günther Osswald, Philip Schmidt, Fred de Vries and Frank Banks (workshop conclusions).
  • Tim Unwin moderated the GTZ conference on e-Health held in Berlin, 28-30 October 2009
• SPIDER - the Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions
  • Postgraduates in SPIDER's PhD Student Network (IPID) contributed to the Collective's 2006 Postgraduate Symposium, and the Collective's postgraduates reciprocated by participating in IPID's 2007 meeting in Karlstad, Sweden
  • Tim Unwin is contributing to SPIDER's short-courses on ICT for development
  • SPIDER participated in the Wilton Park conference in October 2005 on the role of new ICTs in development
• Wilton Park
  • The Collective, together with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, the Global Knowledge Partnership, SPIDER and Wilton Park (an academically independent Executive Agency of the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office) convened a conference on "Becoming an Information Society: the Role of New Information Technologies in Development" at Wilton Park from 17th-20th October 2005.
  • Workshop on ICT partnerships at Wilton Park and British Council conference on "Higher Education for Development: Challenges, Strategies and Policies" 27th-31st March 2006.

• e-Learning Africa
  • Organising Committee for the eLearning Africa conferences held in Addis Ababa from 24th to 26th May 2006, Nairobi from 28th-30th May 2007, and Accra from 28th-30th May 2008
  • Andrea Burris supported the programme for the second eLearning Africa conference
  • Report on e-Learning in Africa
• LifeLine - seeks to inspire people across the world to realise their full potential and spark sustainable and supportive communities
  • Tim Unwin was a panellist in Lifeline Network's Drivers for Change event held at Portcullis House in the UK on 1st November 2007
• IPID (The International Network for postgraduate students in the area of ICT4D)
  • The Collective hosted the IPID annual conferences in 2006 and 2009, and works closely in support of IPID's other postgraduate activities
• NEDA Knowledge Emporium (The Philippines) - a portal to enhance productivity in industry, farming communities and SMEs
• The UN's Online Volunteering organisation
  • ICT4D students contributing to Online Volunteering activities
• The Freeplay Foundation
  • The Collective is working with the Foundation to help evaluate the impact of their provision of radios in Zambia (David Hollow's report The Lifeline Radio in Zambia: Findings and Recommendations)
• Bangladesh Institute of ICT in Development (BIID)
  • Tim Unwin serves as review panellist for BIID's working paper series

• Fionn Murtagh is Editor in Chief of The Computer Journal
• Information Technologies and International Development - Dorothea Kleine is Managing Editor, and Tim Unwin is European editor for ITID, the leading international journal focusing on the intersection of ICT with international development
• Julie Ferguson is one of the editors of Knowledge Management for Development (KM4D)

Co-operating Organisations

The Collective's partnerships listed above are all focused on delivering practical activities together. The Collective also maintains a wider group of organisations with which it co-operates through information sharing and other networking arrangements. It is hoped that many of these will in the future blossom into full partnerships through which we will work together to deliver practical ICT4D initiatives. These Co-operating Organisations include:

• Newthinking Communications - a Berlin-based agency for social communication and consulting, specializing in topics relating to the Information Society, and with particular expertise in open source technologies and strategies
• River Path Associates - a knowledge consultancy, providing research, strategic counsel, and creative solutions to public, private and not-for-profit sector organisations.
• World Computer Exchange - World Computer Exchange is a global education and environment nonprofit that helps connect youth in 65 developing countries to the skills, opportunities and understanding of the Internet while keeping working computers out of landfills
• Proshika - one of the largest NGOs in Bangladesh, actively using computers in all of its 190 Area Development Centres
• Muslim Hands - Muslim Hands works to deliver relief from poverty and sickness, and to provide education worldwide. The Collective works with them to help deliver innovative ICT4D programmes
• Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) - a national networking body working for building a democratic society based on the principles of free flow of information, equitable and affordable access to Information & Communication Technology (ICT) for remote & marginalized population in Bangladesh
• Forum for Information Technology, Nepal (FIT Nepal) - a NGO facilitating the promotion of IT for development in Nepal
• Global Institute for Quality Education - (GIQE/IGCE) a US and Latin American based Institute committed to fostering increased emphasis on quality in education
• The Panafrican Research Agenda on the Pedagogical Integration of ICT - the Observatory - is an IDRC/CRDI initiative whose aim is better to understand how the pedagogical integration of ICT can enhance the quality of learning and teaching in Africa (Ce projet vise à mieux comprendre comment l'intégration pédagogique des TIC peut améliorer la qualité des enseignements et des apprentissages en Afrique)
• The London Knowledge Lab - a collaborative initiative by the Institute of Education and Birkbeck College within London University, designed to bring together computer scientists and social scientists to understand better how technology relates to society, culture and the economy.
• Mobility Aid and Appliances Research and Development Centre (MAARDEC), Nigeria - empowers people with disabilities through provision of innovative and affordable mobility aids and appliances, and complimentary services to ensure that they are socially, economically and politically relevant in the society.

Enquiries for all partnership activities should be directed to Tim Unwin (tim[dot]unwin[at]rhul[dot]ac[dot]uk)

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