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ICT4D Practitioner Seminars: Manchester, Monday July 4th May 30, 2011

The seminars are free and open to all.
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From: Richard Heeks <richard.heeks@manchester.ac.uk>
Date: 30 May 2011 18:49
Subject: ICT4D Practitioner Seminars: Manchester, Monday July 4th
To: Richard Heeks <richard.heeks@manchester.ac.uk>


The University of Manchester's Centre for Development Informatics will be hosting two seminars from ICT4D practitioners based in Africa and Asia on the afternoon of Monday 4 July 2011.
 
The seminars are free and open to all.  No registration is required, though if you have any queries, do email.
 
- "Bridging Technology and Politics" (2.00-3.00pm) by Ben Taylor, Executive Director of Daraja, a governance-focused NGO based in rural Tanzania.  Ben will discuss Tanzania’s technological and governance context, particularly within the water sector.  He will outline the design and practice of Daraja’s MajiMatone programme which uses mobile phones to increase local government accountability around water supply; drawing conclusions about the addition of digital technologies to traditional institutions of governance.  This seminar is held in collaboration with the University's Herbert Simon Institute.
 
- "Connecting Remote Rural Communities: Lessons from the eBario Project in Malaysia" (3.00-4.00pm) by Dr Alvin Yeo, Director of the Institute for Social Informatics and Technological Innovation at the Universiti Malaysia Sarawak.  Alvin will discuss the eBario project, which deployed ICTs in a very isolated rural community in Malaysian Borneo.  By using a multi-disciplinary team spanning technical and social sciences, and by using a participatory, action research methodology, this project was able to make a direct contribution to improvement of rural livelihoods.  The project is winner of the CAPAM International Innovation Award.
 
Both seminars will be held in room 10.08 of the Harold Hankins building (building no.30 on campus map: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/medialibrary/maps/campusmap.pdf; entrance via first floor of Precinct Centre opposite the old Post Office; see: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/travel/ for travel details and directions).
 
With good wishes
Richard Heeks
 
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Prof. Richard Heeks
Director
Centre for Development Informatics
IDPM, SED, University of Manchester
Arthur Lewis Building
Manchester  M13 9PL  U.K.
 
Phone: +44-161-275-2870
Fax: +44-161-275-2898