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- The
Development Gateway's Open Educational Resources
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ICT4D Collective is a Cooperating Organization within the OER dgCommunity
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- 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
- Sponsor
of ICTD2010 hosted by the Collective
- Tim
Unwin moderated the GTZ
conference on ICTs and Rural Development held in Berlin, 18-19
November 2010
- 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
- Sponsor
of ICTD2010 hosted by the Collective
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- 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.
- Ministry
for Foreign Affairs of Finland
- Sponsor
of ICTD2010 hosted by the Collective
- International
Development Research Centre (Canada)
- Sponsor
of ICTD2010 hosted by the Collective
- The
Islamic Develoment Bank
- Sponsor
of ICTD2010 hosted by the Collective
- FAO
and e-agriculture.org
- Convened
a session as a partner at ICTD2010 hosted by the Collective
- InfoDev
- Convened
a session as a partner at ICTD2010 hosted by the Collective
- UNCTAD
- Convened
a session as a partner at ICTD2010 hosted by the Collective
- World
Bank ICT Policy Department
- Convened
a session as a partner at ICTD2010 hosted by the Collective
- WSIS
Stocktaking (ITU)
- Shared
networking and information updating
- WSIS
Forum 2011
- Members
of the Collective played a pajor role in moderating sessions, convening
a workshop and providing an exhibit
Universities
and research institutions
- Universitat
de Lleida
(Catalunya, Spain)
- Developing
collaborative GIS initiatives
- Postgraduates
from Lleida contribute to Royal Holloway's undergraduate field
course in Spain
- Professor
Jordi Marti Henneberg presented a seminar in the Department of
Geography at Royal Holloway on "Railways and Population Distribution
in Europe (1850-2000)" in October 2006
- Department
of Computer Science, University of Joensuu (Finland)
- Collaboration
on the Edulink funded
Consortium of African and European Higher Education Institutions
for ICT4D
- Joint
teaching on courses in Geography and Computer Science
- Università
della Svizzerra italiana
- International
Literacy Institute
(University of Pennsylvania, USA)
- Collaboration
on infoDev handbook on monitoring
and evaluating ICT for education initiatives in the developing
world
- Joint
participation in international conferences and workshops (OECD,
WSIS)
- Research
support for PhD students
- Escola
do Futura, Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil)
- Tbilisi
State University
(Georgia)
- Collaborative
research in geography and land management. Professor Joseph Salkvadze
serves on Auchariya Yonphrayoon's PhD supevisory panel.
- Project
funded by The British Academy
to help enhance research and teaching in Human Geography in Georgia.
Report completed by Tim Unwin in June 2005.
- College
of Information Technology, Arab American Univeristy - Jenin, West
Bank
- Agder
University College, School of Management (Kristiansund, Norway)
and the Norwegian Network on
ICT and Development
- Collaborative
research focusing particularly on ICT and national development
- The
Collective's Africa ICT4D university network - this was funded by
the UK's Development Partnerships for Higher Education (DelPHE) scheme
supported by DFID and the British Council, and later by EDULINK funding:
- Carnegie
Mellon University (Qatar)
- Sponsor
of ICTD2010 hosted by the Collective
Private
sector and consultancy organisations
- Atticmedia
- Mark
Weber contributing teaching on content in ICT4D undergraduate
course
- Audiovisual
Technologies, Informatics and Telecommunications (@IT) (Belgium)
- Cisco
Systems
- Dr.
Michelle Selinger (Education Strategy Manager, Corporate Responsibility
EMEA) was an Honorary Research Associate
- Cisco
provided an internship during the summer of 2005 for a student
completing the ICT4D course at Royal Holloway, University of London.
- Cisco
and the ICT4D collective gained a prestigious CASE studentship
from ESRC in 2005 for a postgraduate research studentship on evaluating
the use of ICT for education in Africa
- Joint
Cisco-ICT4D annual lecture series
- Education
Impact
- Contributed
in delivery of ICTD2010 hosted by the Collective
- Blankpage
(formerly Eduvision)
- LearnAbout
by EuroTalk
- Working
together on monitoring and evaluating the use of handheld devices
for learning in Malawi
- Microsoft
Research
- Awarded
Marije Geldof a postgraduate research studentship for her work
on ICT and low-levels of literacy in Africa
- Sponsor
of ICTD2010 hosted by the Collective
- Intel
- Sponsor
of ICTD2010 hosted by the Collective
Civil Society
Organisations
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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
- Contributed
advice and support for delivery of ICTD2010 hosted by the Collective
- 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
- The
Collective hosted workshop for LifeLine Network on child headed
households,11th June 2010
- 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
- Tim
Unwin has regularly given keynotes at IPID's annual conferences
- IPID
hosted the postgraduate day at ICTD2010
- The
Smile Foundation, India
- Support
for Master's dissertation on the use of ICTs in support of youths
in India
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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
- Bangladesh
Institute of ICT in Development (BIID)
- Tim
Unwin serves as review panellist for BIID's working paper series
Journal
editorial activities
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
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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) |