Working Papers and Seminars

The ICT4D Collective is committed to making available the results of our research as widely as possible. This part of our web-site provides ready access to research in progress, unpublished papers, drafts of research reports written by members of the Collective, and seminars hosted by the Collective on all aspects of ICT4D. Requests for citation of any material distributed in this way must be made directly to the individual authors, and citation of the digital versions should be given as, for example, http://www.gg.rhul.ac.uk.ict4d/ict4d/workingpapers/mitra1.pdf

Seminars presented in the ICT4D Collective

Seminar by Héctor Arrechedera Zamorano (Project Director, Coordinador de Informática Médica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Central de Venezuela) on 2nd March 2011, entitled “SOS Telemedicina: bulding telehealth infrastructure for distributed communities in Venezuela” - more details of his work are available at http://telemed.wikispaces.com/About+SOS (.pdf of the presentation; .mov video)

Seminar by Dr. Alvin Yeo's (Universiti Malaysia Sarawak - UNIMAS) on 17th February 2011, entitled “Providing equal ICT access to remote communities in Malaysian Borneo" (Video .mov file)

Seminar by Teresa Graziano (University of Catania, Italy) on 23rd June 2010, entitled ICTs, migration and development in the Maghreb (.mov file)

Seminar by Roberta Bernardi (School of Management, Royal Holloway, University of London) on 21st May 2010, entitled The impact of aid policy on HIV/AIDS monitoring and evaluation systems in Africa (.mov video)

Seminar by Melissa Ho (TIER Group, Berkeley) on 7th April 2010, entitled Communication, computing and healthcare financing in Southwest Uganda (.mov video)

Seminar by Alan Jackson (Aptivate) on 5th March 2010, entitled Participation, interaction, capacitation: the foundations of ICTs in development (.mp3 audio file)

Seminar by David Grimshaw (Senior Research Fellow, Emerging Technologies, Department for International Development; and PracticalAction) in collaboration with CEDAR on 3rd March 2010, entitled Sharing local content in local voices (.mp3 audio file)

Janet Longmore's and Terrie Lynn Thompson's (Digital Opportunity Trust) seminar on 27th January 2010, entitled The role of NGOs in ICT4D research: a case study of the Digital Opportunity Trust) (.mp3 audio file)

Uduak Okon's (Royal Holloway, University of London) seminar for the Collective, given on 18th January 2009, and entitled ICTs and Sustainable Communities in Nigeria: Building on Indigenous Knowledge Systems (.mp3 audio file; .pdf file)

Nigel Jefferies' (Head of Academic Relationships, Vodafone; Chair of the World Wireless Research Forum) seminar on 7th December 2009, entitled HCI and sustainability: a new relationship (.wma audio file)

Brasilina Passarelli's seminar for the Collective, given on 4th November 2009 and entitled Networking actors: School of the Future Research Lab Digital Inclusion Projects and Experience (Part 1 and Part 2, audio .wma files)

Dorothea Kleine's seminar for the Collective, jointly with CEDAR, given on 2nd November 2009 and entitled The economists have only measured the world... (audio .wma file)

Pat Hall's seminar at the Collective given on 6 October 2009 on Barriers to Localisation: a Case Study of Nepal (presentation, audio .wma file)

Jo Tacchi's seminar at the Collective given on 1 September 2009 on Assessing Communication for Social Change (audio .wma file)

Seminar on OLPC implementation in Ethiopia at the Collective by Tom Postmes and Nina Hansen from the University of Gröningen on 11th May 2009

ICT4D Collective Ongoing Research and Unpublished Papers

Working papers are listed in chronological order of upload, with the most recent ones at the top of the list:

• Geldof, M., Grimshaw, D.J., Kleine, D. and Unwin, T. (2011) What are the key lessons of ICT4D partnerships for poverty reduction? Systematic Review Report for DFID.
• Kleine, D. (2010) ‘“None but ourselves can free our minds” – Development, Technological Change and
  Escaping the Tyranny of Direct Impact’, Paper presented at the IFIP 9.4 Workshop “Theorising Development and Technological Change”, London School of Economics, 26th May 2010
• Harsha Liyange (2009) From Agri-clinics to FarmerNet: applying mobile phones and the internet to support rural farmers, paper presented at CABI Global Summit, October 2009 (slides)
• Tim Unwin (2009) ICTs, Citizens and the State: moral philosophy and development practices
• Victor Gathara (2009) Fibre comes East...Is Kenya prepared? A preliminary report on the impact of the arrival of international sub-marine fibre on development in Kenya (Paper prepared for DFID Kenya and Somalia)
• David Hollow (2009) Initial reflections on the Ethiopia XO5000 Programme
• David Hollow and ICWE (2009) eLearning in Africa: challenges, priorities and future direction
• Tim Unwin (2009) 'Free' access to research findings - reflections for an African context
• Simone Sala and Federico Matteoli, Building capacity in communication and ICT applications for Community Based Adaptation (CBA), .ppt file presented at the 3rd International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA) to climate change in Dhaka, 2009
• David Crespo García (2008) Mobile phones' potential to address information and communication needs of healthcare workers in isolated rural areas in Peru
• Jorrit Mulder (2008) Knowledge dissemination in Sub-Saharan Africa: what role for Open Educational Resources (OER)?
• Tim Unwin (2008) On the richness of Africa
• Marije Geldof (2008) The interaction between low-literate youth and ICT in Ethiopia and Malawi
• David Hollow (2008) The place of monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment within eLearning programmes: a follow-up report from the eAlumni Workshop, Zschortau
• Tim Unwin (2008) Making a case to bilateral donors for ICTs in development practice (published on SPIDER's digital environment)
• Joyojeet Pal (2008) Computers and the promise of development: aspiration, neoliberalism and 'technolity' in India's ICTD enterprise
• David Hollow (2008) Low-cost laptops for education in Ethiopia
• Pat Hall (2008) Computers in schools - what should be done? The pros and cons of "one laptop per child"
• Tim Unwin (2008) Report on e-Learning in Africa
• Sugata Mitra (2007) Hole in the Wall

Workshops convened by the Collective

IPID's ICT4D Symposium, 11th-12th September 2009

The ICT4D Collective hosted the 4th IPID Seminar on ICT4D. Videos of all presentations are now available through the IPID site.

Storytelling @ e-Learning Africa, Dakar, 27th May 2009.

• Salim Hatubou: Le plus beau des heritages (.doc, .odt)
• Salim Hatubou: Pousse joli petit grain (.doc, .odt)
• Fatimata Seye Sylla: Valeur des contes dans l'education: le cas de Bokk Jang - Senegal
• Susanne Fuchs: Learning by Ear - educational programmes of DW-RADIO
• Niall Winters and Joshua Underwood: Storytelling in VeSeL
• Erkki Sutinen and Jussi Nuutinen: Woven stories
• Mary McPalm: Fiano - One day there was a big famine.... (part 1 video) (part 2 video) (told at UCAD on 31st May 2009 - performed by Tim Unwin, Ugo Vallauri and Geraldine de Bastion)

ICT4D Partnership for African Higher Education Institutions Working Papers

The ICT4D Partnership for African Higher Education Institutions, funded by the UK Department for International Development's Development Partnerships for Higher Education (DelPHE) scheme through the British Council has produced a series of working papers which are available here:

• Xavier Muianga, Feliciana Eduardo and Inocente Mutimucuio (2009) The involvement of the private sectior in ICT4D (Public-Private Partnership in ICT4D): the case of Mozambique
• Leonard Mware Oloo (2009) Baseline survey report for ICT in secondary schools in selected parts of Kenya
• Leonard Mware Oloo (2009) The role of civil society, private sector and public-private partnerships in ICT4D
• Tim Unwin with Beate Kleessen, David Hollow, James Williams, Leonard Mware Oloo, John Alwala, Inocente Mutimucuio and Xavier Muianga (2009) Digital Learning Management Systems in Africa: rhetoric and reality

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