ICT4D Conference Hit List

Hey Everybuddy,

Just putting together the curriculum for next spring's course on ICT4D design at Stanford, and was thinking I should start visiting conferences throughout this year to soak up some perspectives and interview and "bag and tag" some speakers and guest lecturers for the course.

Any recommendations on conferences worth checking out? Best ?: Where are you planning to head conference-wise over the next 9 months?

Cheers,

Lucky

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Submitted by bikobiko on Tue, 10/20/2009 - 18:30
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Lucky Gunasekara

eLearning Africa

Submitted by Anonymouse (not verified) on Wed, 10/21/2009 - 01:31

http://www.elearning-africa.com/ was excellent this year, 2010 is shaping up to be good too.

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elearning-africa conference question

Submitted by kristin on Wed, 10/21/2009 - 12:55

Hi -

I've also heard good things about this conference but can you be more descriptive about why you like it specifically? Is it good for leads? Developing partners?

There are so many conferences and we need to decide which few are the most important to us.

Any help you can provide in understanding the details is very helpful.

Thanks!

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Great idea!

Submitted by Wayan Vota on Wed, 10/21/2009 - 08:50

Lucky,

Thanks for suggesting a conference list - its actually one of the resources we'd like to develop for ICTworks. We too wonder about which conferences we should go to, often finding out when someone says "I went to this great meeting..."

What better way than to start now, with this list.

ICT4D Conference Hit List

Submitted by Anonymouse (not verified) on Thu, 10/22/2009 - 00:36

ICT4D 2010 in Royal Holloway, London should also be good following Doha this year.

ict4d resources

Submitted by miraj k (not verified) on Wed, 10/28/2009 - 04:34

ICTs and Development: An International Workshop for Theory, Practice, & Policy [11-12 March, 2010. IIT Delhi, New Delhi]
http://www.iitd.ac.in/events/ICTD2010/

Annual IPID ICT4D Symposiums
http://www.humanit.org/PID/wiki/index.php/Category:ICT4D_Symposium

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ICT4D events page by Christian Kreutz & Ismael Peña-López are good resources for tracking conferences:
http://delicious.com/ckreutz/ict4d+conference
http://ictlogy.net/events/

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Africa Com

Submitted by fjcava on Thu, 10/29/2009 - 09:47

Another possibility is Africa Com, the largest Pan-African communications event in Nov 2009: http://africa.comworldseries.com/home

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eLearning Africa

Submitted by Wayan Vota on Thu, 10/29/2009 - 19:14

eLearning Africa 2010 is the 5th Annual Conference on ICT Development, Eduction, and Training in Lusaka, Zambia. Its the key networking venue for practitioners and professionals from Africa and all over the world: http://www.elearning-africa.com/conference.php

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NEPAD ICT Summit

Submitted by Wayan Vota on Thu, 10/29/2009 - 19:21

The NEPAD Secretariat, together with the NEPAD Council through Ikapa Media (Event Organiser) Invite you to participate in NEPAD ICT AFRICA SUMMIT to be held on the 9th to the 11 of February 2010 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, in Cape Town, South Africa.

http://www.ictafricasummit.co.za/

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Haiti ICT4D

Submitted by fjcava on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 11:55

Google translate says the following about this conference:

"E2tech, it is the first edition of an exhibition dedicated to ICT, Energy, the Environment and totally open to the outside world. This salon has 3 days to take place from 20 to 22 November 2009 at the Karibe Convention Center, located Juvénat, Petion-Ville. E2TECH The name was chosen in view of a perfect integration between the Energy, Environment and Information Technologies and Communication."

www.e2tech.ht

ICT4D Conference Hit List

Submitted by Matthew Dawes (not verified) on Mon, 11/30/2009 - 11:10

obviously i'm biased because i organise it but Mobile Web Africa was a really good event last month in Jo'burg and i'm planning to run it again in Oct 2010 as well as sister events in Kenya in Feb and Nigeria in June. I'm trying to mix up the private and NGO sector's in the agenda because i think there is a lot to learn from both sides. The roundtable format makes it easy to network and increases outputs... have a look at the feedback to get more 'objective' views which is at www.mobilewebafrica.com.

Apart from that i used to organise Connecting Rural Communities for the CTO and that used to be a cracking event, but i know that there has been lots of change in their events department over the last 12 months.

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