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Report 4th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies
Royal Holloway University of London
December 13-16th 2010
Report prepared by: Peter Dell’Osa - Conference Project Manager, Tim Unwin -
Conference Chair, and Dorothea Kleine - General Programme Chair
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Contents
Quick Conference facts ................................................................................................................................................... 3
Acknowledgements ......................................................................................................................................................... 4
Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................................ 6
The Setting ........................................................................................................................................................................... 7
The Programme ................................................................................................................................................................. 8
Sponsors and Partners ................................................................................................................................................ 13
A broad mix of participants ....................................................................................................................................... 14
Scholarship Awards ...................................................................................................................................................... 17
Social and Digital Media .............................................................................................................................................. 21
Sustainability ................................................................................................................................................................... 22
Social Events .................................................................................................................................................................... 23
Further Information and links ................................................................................................................................. 24
Appendix A – ICTD 2010 Conference Organisers ............................................................................................. 25
Appendix B – ICTD 2010 Sessions .......................................................................................................................... 29
Appendix C – ICTD 2010 Papers.............................................................................................................................. 32
Appendix D – ICTD 2010 Demos ............................................................................................................................. 34
Appendix E – ICTD 2010 Posters ............................................................................................................................ 35
Appendix F – Regional distribution of participants ........................................................................................ 38
Appendix G – Participant costs ................................................................................................................................ 39
Table of Figures
Figure 1 Regional distribution of conference participants……………………………………………………..14
Figure 2 Comparison with ICTD 2009 - Percentage of participants from each region .................... 15
Figure 3 Organisations represented……………………………………………………………………………………...16
Figure 4 Participants who received scholarship awards as a share of all delegates ......................... 17
Figure 5 Types of Scholarship Award ................................................................................................................... 18
Figure 6 Regional Distribution of Scholarship recipients ............................................................................. 19
Figure 7 The difference scholarships made the to the overall mix of participants ............................ 19
Figure 8 Reasons for Scholarship Awards…………………………………………………………………………..…20
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Quick Conference facts
The Conference
When: Monday 13th December to Thursday 16th December 2010
Where: Royal Holloway, University of London
Participants
Number: 520
From: 59 different countries, over 5 different continents
Scholarships: 92 participants (18 per cent) received a scholarship
Academic Programme
Sessions: 41
Posters: 35
Demos: 18
Hands-on workshops: 2
Keynotes: 2
Supporters
Sponsors: 10
Partners: 20
Exhibitors: 8
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Acknowledgements
The conference would not have been possible without the support and contribution of
many people. Above all, four colleagues at Royal Holloway, University of London, did the
vast bulk of the administration and ensured that the actual delivery of the conference ran
smoothly: Peter Dell’Osa (our Project Manager), Matthew Woodham (Account Executive,
Facilities Management), Sandie Venables (Kinetics Systems and Conference Management
Officer, Facilities Management), and Caitlin Bentley (Conference Assistant). We owe them a
huge debt of gratitude.
It was a great pleasure for us to work closely with Kentaro Toyama (University of California,
Berkeley) who was Programme Committee Chair and led the peer review process for the
conference papers and posters. He also provided the point of contact for us with the ICTD
Advisory Board, and proffered many helpful suggestions as we developed the conference.
We are also particularly grateful to Bernadine Dias and her team from ICTD2009 hosted at
Carnegie Mellon University in Doha who provided excellent advice, numerous insights and
valuable support.
Without the sponsors and partners, we would not have been able to bring so many people
from across the world to participate, and so we are immensely grateful to them, not only for
the funding that they provided, but also for their enthusiastic commitment to making
ICTD2010 the innovative and exciting gathering that it was.
In terms of the programme, we are hugely grateful to Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Geoff
Walsham for their inspirational contributions. Many other people contributed to the
development of the programme itself, and we would especially like to thank the following:
Kostas Stathis (Co-Chair) and all members of the Sessions Committee; Eduardo Villanueva
(Chair) and members of the Spanish Language Committee; the French Language Committee;
Ineke Buskens (Chair) and members of the Online Interactive Session Committee; David
Grimshaw (Chair) and members of the Demos Committee; G. Harindranath (responsible for
the publishers’ exhibition); Andrea Burris and Roberta Bernardi (Scholarships Committee);
Lisa Cespedes (New Media Co-Ordinator); Wouter Geerts (Sustainability Policy); Jenny
Kynaston (design and signage); David House and Win Min Tun (IT); and all members of the
Senior Programme Committee and the Programme Committee who undertook the paper
review process. We would also like to thank the organizers of sessions who shaped specific
parts of the conference with us to make it a diverse and lively whole, as well as all the
participants and presenters who contributed to the conference. An especial thank you is
due to Isabella Rega and Christian Milani at the New Media in Education Lab at the
Università della Svizzera italiana who developed and hosted the conference web-site.
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During the conference itself, we were supported by staff from the College’s Facilities
Management and Catering departments as well as some 30 volunteers, led by Endrit
Kromidha. Most of these were postgraduate and undergraduate students at Royal
Holloway, University of London, but it was also good to welcome people from far and wide
who were willing to volunteer their services. Without their enthusiastic support, we could
not possibly have delivered such a smooth event. It was also very good to have colleagues
from IPID (the International Network for PG Students in ICT4D) contributing so fully in the
conference, especially through jointly convening the day-long postgraduate session
alongside our own postgraduate community in the ICT4D Collective. Ugo Vallauri, another
postgraduate at Royal Holloway, University of London, co-designed and organised the social
programme, and it was great to enjoy the series of events that he arranged for delegates in
the evenings. Particular thanks to Fftang! Fftang! for getting us dancing. As conference
participants who stayed on over the following weekend will be aware, south-east England
was struck by deep snow on the 18th December 2010, and we are very appreciative of the
efforts of all those who helped delegates eventually return to their places of origin once the
airports had reopened.
We are also particularly grateful to Paul Layzell, the Principal of Royal Holloway, University
of London, for permitting us to use the College facilities, and speaking at the reception. The
College is delighted to host the UNESCO Chair in ICT4D, and in this role it was excellent to
see so many colleagues from the Communication and Information Division of UNESCO’s
headquarters in Paris, as well as from the UK National Commission for UNESCO,
participating in the conference.
Finally, we would like to thank all of the delegates who made the conference what it was. It
was really excellent to have been able to provide an opportunity for so many people
interested in ICT4D to come together to push the boundaries of our understandings
forward, and we look forward to building on the relationships forged at ICTD2010 in the
future.
We wish Michael Best and the team at Georgia Tech well for ICTD2012, and hope that the
material contained in this report will be of help to them and others in the future as they
plan the next ICTD conferences.
Tim Unwin (Conference Chair)
Dorothea Kleine (General Programme Chair)
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Introduction
The fourth Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD)
international conference was hosted by Royal Holloway University of London (the College)
from December 13th to 16th 2010 and was the largest so far attracting over 500 participants
from countries across the world. The conference was headlined by two excellent, thought
provoking keynote addresses given by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Geoff Walsham.
These complemented a diverse programme of open academic sessions, workshops, peer-
reviewed papers, posters and demonstrations.
The diverse mix of participants, and the variety of
the academic programme contributed to a lively and
engaging atmosphere, where ideas were shared and
developed. The campus location of the conference
brought the participants together outside the formal
hours of the conference, as accommodation, dining
facilities and conference rooms were all located
closely together. They also provided a combination
of affordability for participants and the use of state
of the art facilities, such as the recently built Windsor Building. A range of social events was
provided, including music, dancing, and a large dinner reception. These activities were
essential in creating a lively and engaging conference, and the organsiers hope that they
have created a legacy of new contacts, closer working and shared ideas.
Demand to attend the conference was high. The venue had been designed to accommodate 400 participants, 50 more than the ICTD2009 held in Qatar, and despite capacity being expanded to allow 500, the conference was sold-out and a waiting list put in place. Many of the participants were able to attend due to the award of scholarships, which were generously funded by our sponsors. In total 105 scholarships were offered, and 92 of these were accepted, allowing a significant
number of people to attend the conference who would not otherwise have been able to do so.
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The Setting
The conference was held at the Royal
Holloway, University of London campus. Set
in 135 acres of attractive parkland, the College
provided a beautiful setting, and its close
proximity to London and Windsor meant that
many participants took excursions there. The
College has one of the most spectacular
university buildings in the world, opened in
1886 by Queen Victoria, and this provided an
elegant setting for the conference banquet and an accommodation option with real
character. The conference itself took place in the modern Windsor Building, a state of the
art, energy efficient facility.
During the course of the conference 350
participants chose to stay on the College campus,
and they were all provided with a range of different
accommodation options. Over 2700 meals were
provided, catering for a range of dietary
requirements and needs. 4000 cups of tea and
coffee were served, and more than 120 bottles of
wine were opened.
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The Programme
The values chosen to guide the ICTD2010 programme
were excellence, diversity and participation. This was also
reflected in our focus on raising money for scholarships
(see the scholarship awards section for details), our
reduced rates for NGO and developing country delegates
and other efforts towards improving access to the
conference for a diverse field of delegates. The
conference was therefore explicitly intended to attract
not just academics from a variety of countries and
disciplines, but also policy-makers, funders and practitioners.
For the first time, the ICTD2010 conference programme was held over 4 days. Days 1 and 4
consisted of a diversity of 41 open sessions and 2 training workshops, while days 2 and 3
featured the papers, demos and posters that had been selected by rigorous peer review.
Days 2 and 3 were overseen by Kentaro
Toyama, the Programme Committee Chair.
Delegates had been invited to submit papers
for double-blind review, a selection of which
would then be chosen for presentation in
either oral paper or poster format. 140 papers
were submitted. Each was allocated to 2-3
reviewers and the papers with the highest
scores and most favourable reviews were
selected for presentation. 19 papers were presented orally on days 2 and 3 (see Appendix
C). 35 papers were presented as posters (see Appendix E). Poster presenters were allocated
a space to display their posters throughout days 2 and 3. On day 2 there was a dedicated
time during which delegates were encouraged to visit poster presenters at their posters.
Furthermore, there was a “Fast Forward” session for all of the conference delegates in
plenary during which each poster presenter had 30 seconds to introduce their poster and
generate interest.
As a separate process, the conference accepted proposals for technical demonstrations.
These were reviewed by a demo committee, chaired by David Grimshaw. 20 demos were
selected from the 34 that had been submitted as proposals, 18 were shown (see Appendix
D). Demos ran in parallel with the posters, in that demo presenters were also given a space
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for days 2 and 3 to set up their demos and also asked to receive delegates at their stands
during the dedicated time slot on day 2.
Inspirational keynote addresses at the
conference were given by Sir Tim Berners-Lee
(Director, W3C and Founder of the World
Wide Web Foundation) who spoke on “The
World Wide Web and Development”, and
Geoff Walsham (Emeritus Professor of
Management Studies – Information Systems –
at the University of Cambridge) who
addressed the topic of “Development
Informatics in a Changing World”. The conference opened with a plenary session on the
theme of Practitioner Reflections, with the speakers being Erik Hersman (Ushahidi), Anriette
Esterhuysen (Association for Progressive Communications), Anita Gurumurthy (IT for
Change), Ken Banks (kiwanja.net and Frontline SMS), and Indrajit Banerjee (UNESC0). The
closing plenary, entitled Donor Voices, provided an opportunity for representatives from
leading international donors to reflect on the funding of ICT4D programmes and directions
in which the field might move in the future; the speakers were Christine Qiang (The World
Bank), Pierre Lucante (GTZ), Patrick Kalas (Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation)
and Laurent Elder (IDRC-CRDI).
Days 1 and 4 were co-ordinated and overseen by
Dorothea Kleine, the General Programme Chair.
Having two days dedicated to a diversity of
sessions at the conference was a novelty for the
ICTD series. The motivation was to provide a
platform for a diversity of voices and other forms
of excellence that could not be encapsulated in the
paper, poster or demo formats. This offered space
and time for practitioners, policy-makers, funders
and academics to offer different, often more participatory formats of knowledge exchange.
The original open call for sessions invited workshops, panels, open spaces, storytelling,
exhibitions and even performances – just as long as the format was appropriate for the
topic. Any topic relevant to ICT4D was considered. The criteria for acceptance were that
sessions should represent excellence (compulsory), enable participation (desirable), and
offer diversity of voices (desirable). As part of our commitment to delivering the conference
in partnership with other global organisations working on ICT4D, we also invited conference
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partners to propose sessions that were then honed in discussion with the conference
organisers. As a result, of these processes, 22 sessions came through the open competition
and 19 through the invited strand. In addition, there were two hands-on training workshops.
For the open competition, there was a 2-
page submission form on which potential
session organisers could explain to the
sessions committee their ideas and lay out
how they matched the criteria. Proposers
could ask for 2 hour (quarter day), 4 hour
(half day) and 8 hour (full day) slots. The
response was overwhelming: 29 session
proposals were received. Each member of
the sessions committee reviewed all of the submissions and gave scores and qualitative
views on each. The goal was not to eliminate potentially good ideas, but to take some risks
and also mentor some sessions into achieving their full potential. Based on these reviews, 3
sessions were rejected, 4 converted into other formats (hands-on workshops, exhibition,
separate meeting) and 2 had to withdraw for logistical reasons, while 20 sessions were
accepted subject to suggestions from the review committee, some with less time allocated
than originally asked for. It was decided not to merge sessions that were thematically close
so as not to impede on the authority of each session organiser to shape their own session.
Instead, thematically related sessions were grouped into strands: as such, the themed
strands of “Gender” (half day), “Openness” (full day), “Methods” (full day) and “Climate
Change” (full day) emerged.
The invited sessions pathways also
allowed organisers the flexibility to
liaise with funders in ICT4D to invite
them to put on sessions which
reflected their own current funding
interests in the field. Organisations
which chose to use this opportunity to
offer thematic sessions included the
World Bank, UNCTAD, FAO, GTZ, IDRC,
SPIDER, and the Finnish Foreign Ministry. Partner sessions were those initiated by the
conference organisers and hosted by a relevant partner: there was an online conference
(co-hosted by the GRACE Network and ict4d.at), a full postgraduate day (co-hosted by IPID
and the ICT4D Collective), an Open Space (hosted by Aptivate), a Development Teach-In
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(hosted by the Centre for Developing Areas Research, RHUL) and a Technology Teach-In
(hosted by the University of Colorado). Two invited sessions, one on Research Ethics and
one on Publishing in ICT4D arose when experiences during the paper review process
showed that there was a need to address these topics.
Further, there was a commitment on the part of
the organisers to widen the perspective of the
ICT4D to work done by colleagues who did not
write in English. Respect for cultural and linguistic
diversity is one of the principles of UNESCO and
one that the UNESCO Chair at Royal Holloway,
University of London is committed to. The
organisers worked closely with two teams of
potential organisers for a session of papers in
French and in Spanish. In the end, it was only the Spanish language session which was able
to generate a sufficient number of papers of appropriate quality to offer a full session. The
Spanish session was a success in its own right and also an important step towards opening
future ICTD conferences to languages other than English.
As a result, ICTD2010 was able to expand from 3 workshops at ICTD2009 to 41 open
sessions and 2 training workshops at ICTD2010. There were 9 parallel strands on day 1 and
10 parallel strands on day 4 for delegates to choose to attend. In addition, there were two
exhibitions. IKM Emergent offered an installation on the theme of knowledge for
development. The NGO Insightshare also showed a pre-view version of their “Conversations
with the Earth: Indigenous Voices on Climate Change” exhibition and film due to
subsequently tour internationally. A full list of sessions is in Appendix B.
The sessions on day 1 and 4 allowed practitoners,
policy-makers and funders to interact with each
other and the academic community in ways that
were closer to their own mode of communicating
than academic papers or demos. They offered
space for impulse presentations, panel
interventions, round-table conversations, story-
telling and open discussion. They also challenged
all participants to communicate knowledge in ways
that were more participatory, diverse and inclusive than the very selective paper review
process.
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Many delegates remarked that balancing the rigorous, highly selective single paper strand
on days 2 and 3 with participatory, diverse and open forms of knowledge production on
days 1 and 4 worked particularly well and helped create the “buzz” at the conference. On a
practical level, it certainly played a role in attracting the record-level delegate numbers –
many delegates from different backgrounds who had not had papers submitted or accepted
saw the opportunity to contribute more spontaneously in the many open sessions that were
on offer.
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Sponsors and Partners
The Conference could not have been the success that it was, without the generous
assistance of our sponsors and partners who provided just under £150,000 of support.
Our Sponsors
Our sponsors provided significant financial support, which contributed to the effective
general administration of the conference, but also allowed us to provide nearly 100
scholarships to people from a diverse mix of countries, many of whom would not have been
able to attend the conference otherwise. The Conference Sponsors were:
Platinum
Carnegie Mellon Qatar
Microsoft
Gold
IDRC-CRDI (International Development Research Centre)
Islamic Development Bank
SPIDER (Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions)
Silver
Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland
Bronze
GTZ on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and
Development
SurveyBe
Other
Cisco Systems
Intel
Our Partners
Our partners provided generous support in kind, through a range of different activities.
These included convening sessions, assisting with the programme design and
implementation, providing specialist skills, expertise and equipment, and enabling
participants to attend. Our Partners are:
ACM ICT4D.at newMine
Aptivate ICWE oMbiel/campusM
BCS IKMemergent The World Bank / eDev
Education Impact infoDev UNCTAD
euro-africa.ict and ei-africa
ipid UNESCO (UK National
Commission, and CI Sector) FAO/ e-agriculture Key Travel
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A broad mix of participants
The conference was truly international, with participants having travelled from over
fifty countries bringing with them a diverse set of experiences and skills. The countries
they came from were also diversely spread, with just over a third coming from Europe
(35%), a quarter from North America (24%), and a third from either Africa (16%) or
Asia (16%). The remaining participants came from a mix of Central and South American
countries (5%) and the Middle East (5%).
The nationality of participants showed an even broader mix, with 64 different
nationalities being represented. Many of the participants who travelled from Europe to
attend, whilst living there, were nationals of African and Asian countries. Appendix F
shows a complete list of the countries participants came from.
Figure 1 Regional distribution of conference participants
17%
20%
26%
8%
25%
4%
Nationality
16%
16%
24%5%
35%
4%
Residence
Africa
Asia
North America
Central & South America
Europe
Middle East
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Figure 2 shows that this conference attracted a significant proportion more European
(22%), African (6%) and Central & South American (3%) participants than the previous
ICTD2009 conference held in Doha. Particularly pleasing is the increase in African and
Central & South American participants, although the welcome rise in Europeans is
largely due to the high number of delegates from the United Kingdom (23%) (noticeably
similar to the proportion of Qataris (20%) at the Doha conference).
The proportion of Middle Eastern delegates fell significantly (21%), and although this
could be expected due to the change in location of the conference (from Doha to
London), it is disappointing that more participants from this region were not able to
attend. The relative consistency in the number of Asian delegates is an achievement,
given the change in location.
Figure 2 Comparison with ICTD 2009 - Percentage of participants from each region
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
Europe North America
Asia Africa Central & South
America
Middle East Host Country
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The conference brought together participants from a variety of different professional
backgrounds. Just over half worked for academic (56%) organizations, while the
remainder worked for a mix of civil society (19%), government (13%) and private
sector (12%) organizations. Approximately 300 different organisations were
represented in total.
Figure 3 Organisations represented
56%
19%
13%
12%
Academic
Civil society
Government
Private sector
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Scholarship Awards
92 delegates had their attendance subsidised through the award of a scholarship.
Applications for scholarships to the conference were highly competitive and over 323
requests were received. These were assessed on the basis of whether they:
- had a paper accepted, or were a speaker in an accepted session (including posters,
workshops and demos) at the conference;
- were from a country ranked below 100th on the latest Human Development Index
(as at 1st June 2010);
- were studying for a postgraduate degree; or
- were on a low income
In all, 105 scholarships were offered, and of these there was an extremely high take-up rate
of nearly 90 per cent, meaning that scholars accounted for around 18 per cent of all
participants. We were, though, disappointed that some people who had been offered
scholarships were unable to attend because they could not get visas in time to participate.
Figure 4 Participants who received scholarship awards as a share of all delegates
18%
82%
Scholarship recipients
Non-scholarship recipients
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Depending on the individual circumstances of the scholarship applicant, different
scholarship awards were made. The majority of recipients (65%) were given what the
panel considered a full award, of free registration, airfare and accommodation during
the conference. Other combinations of awards were made (shown in Figure 5), which
provided different combinations of the elements of the full award. Scholars were
expected to pay for any further expenses (such as visa costs and local transport).
Figure 5 Types of Scholarship Award
Most scholarships were awarded to people from Africa (33%), Asia (25%) and Central
& South America (16%). These were three of the four least represented regions at the
conference, and without the awards they would have had significantly less participants
attending (see Figure 7). Figure 7 also shows that the two regions with the most
participants (Europe and North America) had their overall proportion of participants
reduced by the scholarship process.
65%
14%
8%
13%Registration, airfare and accomodation
Registration only
Registration and flight
Other Combination
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Figure 6 Regional Distribution of Scholarship recipients
Figure 7 The difference scholarships made the to the overall mix of participants
33%
25%
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16%
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Africa
Asia
North America
Central & South America
Europe
Middle East
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Europe North America
Asia Africa Central & South America
Middle East
Fewer overall participants
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The award of Scholarships did not just provide a broader geographical split of
participants, but it also contributed to the success of the conference in other ways.
More than half of the scholars made an active contribution to the running of the events,
by organising sessions, presenting papers or providing demonstrations. They also
allowed more than fifty people on a low income to attend, who would not otherwise
have been able to do so. Forty-five per cent of scholarships went to post-graduate
students who will have been able to pass on their research to others at the conference
and gain ideas to inform their own work.
Figure 8 Reasons for Scholarship Awards
0%
25%
50%
75%
100%
Low income Country ranking below 100 on HDI
Session or Paper presentor
Post graduate
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Social and Digital Media
Those with an interest in ICT4D are spread around the world. Social media has
provided an essential resource to promote the conference and share information with
participants and those wishing to participate without actually travelling to the UK. The
electronic sharing of information had the added benefit of reducing our carbon footprint
when compared with its paper equivalent. For these reasons electronic and social
media have been used extensively and successfully before, during and after the
conference.
The social media websites which were used (figures accurate at the start of February
2011) were:
- Facebook, where over 1000 people joined the dedicated ICTD 2010 group
- Twitter, which saw 398 twitterers, tweeting 1766 tweets
- YouTube, which had 7,067 views of the dedicated ICTD 2010 channel
These were supported by a regular updated conference website, which had received
44,324 views by the close of the conference.
During the period of the conference all participants were provided with an electronic
version of the programme on a USB card. Full papers, summaries of demos and
abstracts of sessions were also available on the USB card and for download on the
website. Participants were given access to an electronic version of the conference (the
ICT4D2010 app) which could be download on to a smartphone, and for any participant
without a smartphone a free iPod was provided. This not only reduced the amount of
paper being used, but also provided a useful communication channel for conference
updates and postings to be shared. All Papers and Posters accepted through the peer
review process were made available on the conference website in early 2011.
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Sustainability
The organisers were committed to arranging a conference that recognised its social,
economic and environmental impact on diverse communities. This commitment was
fulfilled by an ongoing programme of activity in this area, both by the College as a whole,
and through the specific actions of the ICTD organization committee. They were:
College activities
- Providing communal facilities for recycling paper, cardboard, plastic, metal, glass and
electrical equipment across campus;
- Replacing inefficient light bulbs and fittings, and examining building heating and
cooling; and
- Serving only Fairtrade tea and coffee served on campus, and providing Fairtrade
products in the College Shops.
ICTD committee activities
- Choosing the Windsor Building Conference Centre as the main venue, a state of the
art building with a 69 efficiency rating (much lower than the average 100 for UK
buildings), Energy Star accredited equipment and energy efficient measures (motion
sensors, low energy lighting and water reduction measures in toilets);
- Using Fairtrade, locally sourced, free range and organic products wherever possible;
- Sourcing delegate bags from Freeset, a Fairtrade social enterprise in India focusing
on creating employment opportunities for marginalized women. Material and dyes
were sourced and used in an environmentally responsible way;
- Not using bottled water;
- Using only recycled paper and not using paper wherever possible;
- Encouraging delegates to consider their environmental footprint when travelling to
and attending the conference; and
- Offering ways of interacting with the conference online
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Social Events
The organising team put a lot of effort into making
the conference as welcoming and friendly to
participants as possible. ICTD2010 provided social
events, outside the academic programme of the
conference to make the event more enjoyable for
participants and to provide a more relaxed
environment for participants to get to know one
another. The programme included social events for
every night of the conference, including informal
meet-ups at local hostelries and more elaborate cultural happenings.
The two key events were an open mic jam session which took place on the opening night of
the conference and a concert/djset dance party on the third night. The jam session took
place at the Stumble Inn and featured the spontaneous participation of delegates from all
over the world, happily sharing their talents with over a hundred conference participants:
musicians, dancers, poets, singers and comedians joyfully performed in front of an engaged
audience, setting the right energy and excitement for a conference devoted to cross-cultural
sharing of different perspectives and experiences. A special performance by Roxanne de
Bastion, an up-and-coming London based singer/songwriter, provided a highlight of the
evening.
The third night of the conference featured an eclectic performance
by the London-based Fftang! Fftang! Collective at Medicine,
including a DJ and three musicians seamlessly playing a mix of
upbeat world music. Over three hundred conference participants
attended the event and quickly joined the festive dancy mood of the
party. The performers skillfully blended music appealing to
participants from all parts of the world, truly bringing together the
spirit of the global ICT4D research community. It was a very
successful event. Not only many of the participants were still smiling
the next morning, but much of the feedback we received afterwards named this as the best
conference party people had ever attended.
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Further Information and links
Conference Papers http://www.ictd2010.org/?page_id=93
Conference Posters http://www.ictd2010.org/?page_id=619
Twitter http://twitter.com/ictd2010
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=120498319761&index=1
YouTube http://www.youtube.com/ict4dat#p/a
Workshop reports Finding development potential in the scarcity of the virtual economy http://www.infodev.org/en/Article.659.html
ICTs, enterprise and poverty alleviation http://new.unctad.org/upload/Summary_UNCTAD_at_ICTD2010.pdf http://www.flickr.com/photos/ict4d-unctad/sets/72157625599132814
ICTD2.0, peer production and open development http://zerogeography.blogspot.com/2010/12/ictd-20-peer-production-and-open_28.html
e-agriculture http://farastaff.blogspot.com/2010/12/e-agriculture-ictd2010-conference.html
Participant Reflections
http://www.sdc-learningandnetworking-blog.admin.ch/2010/12/08/simple-but-not-easy-why-strategic-integration-of-icts-into-development-programmes-is-simply-not-easy
http://ict4djester.org/blog/?p=262
http://www.webfoundation.org/2010/12/sir-tim-keynoting-at-ictd2010/
http://www.scidev.net/en/news/research-on-ict-for-development-lacks-african-voice--1.html
http://ictd.de
http://www.zeit.de/digital/internet/2010-12/kibera-openstreetmap?page=all
http://anjakrieger.com/tag/ictd/
http://www.webfoundation.org/2010/12/thoughts-on-ictd2010/
http://www.i-policy.org/2010/12/ictd2010-resume.html
Participant Photographs
http://www.telecentre.org/photo/albums/ictd-2010-london
http://www.telecentre.org/photo/albums/ictd-2010-london-2
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Appendix A – ICTD 2010 Conference Organisers
Conference Chair
Krithi Ramamritham
Tim Unwin
International Institute of Information Technology IIT Bombay
UNESCO Chair in ICT4D, Royal Holloway, University of London
Raj Reddy
General Programme Chair
Carnegie Mellon University
Dorothea Kleine
AnnaLee Saxenian
Royal Holloway, University of London
University of California, Berkeley
Programme Committee Chair
Kentaro Toyama
Kentaro Toyama
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
Ernest Wilson
Local Organising Committee
University of Southern California
Tim Unwin
Senior Programme Committee
Royal Holloway, University of London
Richard Anderson
Dorothea Kleine
University of Washington
Royal Holloway, University of London
Michael Best
Peter Dell’Osa
Georgia Institute of Technology
Royal Holloway, University of London
Eric Brewer
G. Harindranath
University of California, Berkeley
Royal Holloway, University of London
Jenna Burrell
Matthew Woodham
University of California, Berkeley
Royal Holloway, University of London
Jonathan Donner
Thao Nguyen
Microsoft Research
Royal Holloway, University of London
Richard Duncombe
Postgraduate Representative: Endrit Kromidha
University of Manchester
Royal Holloway, University of London
Hernan Galperin
Conference Project Manager
University of San Andres
Peter Dell’Osa
Alison Gillwald
Royal Holloway, University of London
Research ICT Africa
ICTD Advisory Board
Dean Karlan
Francois Bar
Yale University
University of Southern California
Dorothea Kleine
Michael Best
Royal Holloway, University of London
Georgia Institute of Technology
Alemayehu Molla
Ken Keniston
RMIT University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tapan Parikh
Balaji Parthasarathy
University of California, Berkeley
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Balaji Parthasarathy
Jason Ellis
International Institute of Information Technology IIIT Bangalore
IBM
Krithi Ramamritham
Pat Hall
International Institute of Information Technology IIT Bombay
Open University
Kentaro Toyama
Claire Heffernan
University of California, Berkeley
University of Reading
Mark Warschauer
Faheem Hussain
University of California, Irvine
Asian University for Women
Programme Committee
Steve Jackson
Erwin Alampay
University of Michigan
University of the Philippines
Matt Jones
V. Balaji
Swansea University
ICRISAT
Matthew Kam
Subhash Bhatnagar
University of California, Berkeley
IIM-A
Sherif Kamel
Richard Boateng
American University of Cairo
Southern University
Wendy Kellogg
Gaetano Borriello
IBM
University of Washington
G.R. Kiran
John Canny
London School of Economics
University of California, Berkeley
Beth Kolko
Jose-Rodrigo Cordoba-Pachon
University of Washington
Royal Holloway, University of London
Rajendra Kumar
Ed Cutrell
Government of India
Microsoft Research
Richa Kumar
Catalina Danis
MIT
IBM
Ann Light
Rajarshi Das
Queen Mary, University of London
IBM
Colin Maclay
Rahul De
Harvard
IIM Bangalore
Gary Marsden
Andy Dearden
University of Cape Town
Sheffield Hallam University
Shrikant Naidu
M. Bernardine Dias
Motorola Labs, India
Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar
Amit Nanavati
IBM Research
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Joyojeet Pal
John Traxler
University of Michigan
University of Wolverhampton
Francisco Proenza
Sessions/Workshops/Panels Committee
Amy Mahan Research Fellowship Program, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Dorothea Kleine
Jack Qiu
Royal Holloway, University of London
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Kostas Stathis
S. Rajagopalan
Royal Holloway, University of London
IIIT Bangalore
Gloria Bonder
Nitendra Rajput
UNESCO Chair in Gender, Science and Technology, Buenos Aires, Argentina
IBM India
Anita Gurumurthy
Nimmi Rangaswamy
IT for Change, Bangalore
Microsoft Research
Shirin Madon
Osvaldo Rodriguez
Information Systems, LSE, London, UK
La Planta University
Joe Mertz
Roni Rosenfeld
Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
Carnegie Mellon University
Spanish Language Committee
Umar Saif
Eduardo Villanueva
Lahore University of Management Sciences
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru
Jahanzeb Sherwani
Ricardo Gomez
Carnegie Mellon University
iSchool, University of Washington
Revi Sterling
Dorothea Kleine
University of Colorado, Boulder
Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Christoph Stork
Judith Mariscal
University of Witwatersrand
CIDE, Mexico
Eswaran Subrahmanian
Brasilina Passarelli
Carnegie Mellon University
Escola do Futuro, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil
Lakshminarayanan Subramanian
French Language Committee
New York University
Philippe Mero
Jo Tacchi
Education Impact
Queensland University of Technology
Boubakar Barry
Yuri Takhteyev
Association of African Universities
University of Toronto
Stéphane Boyera
Bill Thies
World Wide Web Foundation
Microsoft Research
Tim Unwin
Rahul Tongia
Royal Holloway, University of London
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Online Interactive Session Committee
Conference Volunteers
Ineke Buskens
Salma Abbasi
Gender Research in Africa into ICTs for Empowerment, Director of Research for the Future
Milburgas Alcero
Lina Abu Habib
Caitlin Bentley
CRTD.A
Roberta Bernardi
Demos Committee
Paolo Brunello
David Grimshaw
Andrea Burris
DFID, Practical Action
David Crespo
John Traxler
Sophie Douglas
University of Wolverhampton
Bjorn Everts
Basheerhamad Shadrach
Wouter Geerts
telecentre.org
Marije Geldof
Niall Winters
James Greggan
London Knowledge Lab
David Hollow
Publishers’ Exhibition
Kaire Holts
G. Harindranath
Nils Kaiser
Royal Holloway, University of London
Endrit Kromidha
Scholarships
Jean Damascene Mazimpaka
Andrea Burris
Charles Murphy
Royal Holloway, University of London
Thao Nguyen
Roberta Bernardi
Uduak Okon
Royal Holloway, University of London
Yomi Omogbeja
IT liaison
Ben Parfitt
Win Min Tun
Olly Parsons
Royal Holloway, University of London
Carlos Rey
New Media Co-ordinator
Saeid Sadeghi
Lisa Cespedes
Merle St. Clair Auguste
Royal Holloway, University of London
Fernanda Scur
Sustainability
Vivek Soundararajan
Wouter Geerts
Win Tun
Royal Holloway, University of London
Ugo Vallauri
Facilities Management
Man Xu
Matthew Woodham
Royal Holloway, University of London
Sandie Venables
Royal Holloway, University of London
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Appendix B – ICTD 2010 Sessions
Session organisers are listed in italics below session titles
Partner and Invited Sessions
Open Space for newly emerging themes
Link to online Pre-Conference
Alan Jackson (Aptivate)
Ineke Buskens (Research for the Future)
e-Agriculture perspectives: enhancing the impact of ICT in rural development
Publishing ICT4D Research
FAO and members of the e-Agriculture Community (www.e-agriculture.org)
G. Harindranath (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Open Development
Mobile Applications for Transformation Across Sectors
Laurent Elder (IDRC-CRDI)
Christine Zhenwei Qiang (World Bank)
The Development Potential of the Virtual Economy: Towards a Knowledge Map
Consultation on the World Bank Group’s ICT Sector Strategy 2011
Lara Srivastava and Tim Kelly (InfoDev/World Bank)
Anat Lewin (World Bank)
IPID (International Postgraduate Network in ICT4D) – Full postgraduate day
Development Theory “Teach-In”
Gudrun Wikander, Mathias Hatakka, Endrit Kromidha (IPID with support from ICT4D Collective)
Katie Willis (Centre for Developing Areas Research, Royal Holloway, University of London, www.gg.rhul.ac.uk/cedar)
Randomised Control Trials: Innovations for Poverty Reduction
Conference Reflections: ICTD 10 Years Beyond the Millennium
Dean Karlan (Yale University)
Ann Light (Sheffield Hallam University), Robin Mansell (London School of Economics)
EU-Africa Partnership in the field of ICT4D
Decision making and accountability: citizen-centred ICT platforms?
Ilari Lindy (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland)
Lotta Rydström (SPIDER)
Open Educational Resources
ICTs, enterprises and poverty alleviation
UNESCO UK National Commission, Andreia Santos (Open University, UK), Ian Grant (Encyclopaedia Britannica), Bjoern Hassler (University of Cambridge)
Torbjörn Frediksson (UNCTAD)
Nuevas perspectivas desde América Latina en TIC para el desarrollo (New perspectives from Latin America on ICT for Development)
Media Literacy
Eduardo Villanueva (Pontifica Universidad Católica del Perú)
Organiser: Karen Merkel (UNESCO, UK)
Grey Zones: ICT4D, Participation and Research Ethics
Technology “Teach-In”
Jo Tacchi (Queensland University of Technology), Nimmi Rangaswamy (Microsoft Research Labs India), Revi Sterling (University of Colorado)
Revi Sterling, Heather Underwood (both University of Colorado)
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Submitted Sessions
The power of intent and the touch of the unexpected: exploring a new paradigm for ICT research and planning for development
Information as a global public good: enabling access to knowledge through open licenses
Ineke Buskens (Research for the Future), Mark Thompson (Cambridge University)
Ted Hanss (University of Michigan Medical School)
South => North: A fishbowl on the transferability of ICTs in income-poor countries to income-rich countries (debating applicability, methods, policies)
ICTs, Climate Change and Development
Christopher Coward and Karen Fisher (Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA), University of Washington Information School)
Richard Heeks, Angelica Ospina (Centre for Development Informatics, University of Manchester, http://www.manchester.ac.uk/cdi/).
mHealthy Messaging: a worskhop on using mobile phones to support health promotion and behaviour change
Engendering ICT policies
Jonathan Donner (Microsoft Research India) and Patricia Mechael (The Earth Institute, Columbia University)
Sonia Jorge (Pyramid Research)
Qual meets Quant: Bridging the gap between technical and social researchers to foster international development through mobile phones
Creating, An Alternative
Vanessa Frias-Martinez (Teléfonica Research); Kentaro Toyama and Jenna Burrell (both University of California, Berkeley), Nathan Eagle (SantaFe Institute)
Ann Light (Sheffield Hallam University), Karen Merkel (New Media Networks), Clodagh Miskelly, Gabriel Gbadamosi (Goldsmith College, UL), Linje Manyozo (LSE)
ICT for Microentrepreneurs
Conceptions of Accountability in Policy and Practice
Charity Gichuki (Kenyatta University)
Ann Light (Sheffield Hallam University), Robin Mansell (LSE)
Citizen mapping and media development
Opening Access – What gets in the way? Towards a holistic approach to unlocking the power of scholarly knowledge and information in developing and emerging countries
Erica Hagen and Mikel Maron (Ground Truth and Map Kibera Project)
Tag McEntegart (International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications, UK)
ICTD2.0 and peer-production
Possibilities and disruptions: how do ICT4D researchers use ICTs in their work?
Mark Graham and Maja Andjelkovic (Oxford Internet Institute)
Pamela McLean (Dadamac Knowledge Brokers)
Applying gender analysis to ICT4D projects
Mapping out a research agenda for mHealth
Nancy Hafkin (WIGSAT/ Knowledge Working/ United Nations)
Patricia Mechael (Center for Global Health and Economic Development, Earth Institute, Columbia University), Alison Bloch (Independent mHealth Strategist), Garrett Mehl (WHO)
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Participatory Video
Jay Mistry, Katherine Brickell, Vandana Desai (Royal Holloway, University of London), Sara Asadullah (Insightshare)
How can ICT research better inform and communicate theories of development and globalisation? Challenges and promising directions
James Murphy (Clark University) and Pádraig Carmody (Trinity College Dublin)
From digital inclusion to information literacy: an open space workshop
Brasilina Passarelli, Daisy Grisolia, Fernanda Scur, Mariana Tavernari (University of São Paulo)
Free and Open Source approaches to assistive technologies in ICT4D
Ugo Vallauri (Royal Holloway, University of London/Computer Aid International)
Participatory design of mobile learning activities: a workshop for academics from developing regions
Niall Winters and Yishay Mor (both London Knowledge Lab)
Exhibitions
PV Film: Conversations with the Earth: Indigenous Voices on Climate Change
Gareth Benest (Insightshare)
IKM Emergent
Mike Powell, Michael David (IKM Emergent)
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Appendix C – ICTD 2010 Papers
(All papers are available in full on the conference website http://www.ictd2010.org)
Open Data Kit: Tools to Build Information Services for Developing Regions
Yaw Anokwa, University of Washington; Carl Hartung, University of Washington; Waylon Brunette, University of Washington; Adam Lerer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Clint Tseng, University of Washington; Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington
Mobile Divides: Gender, Socioeconomic Status, and Mobile Phone Use in Rwanda,
Joshua Blumenstock, U.C. Berkeley; Nathan Eagle, The Santa Fe Institute
Evaluating an Adaptive Multi-User Educational Tool for Low-Resource Regions
Emma Brunskill, University of California, Berkeley; Sunil Garg, University of Washington; Clint Tseng, University of Washington; Joyojeet Pal, University of Washington; Leah Findlater, University of Washington
Understanding the Links Between ICT Skills Training and Employability - An Analytical Framework
Maria Garrido, Joe Sullivan and Andy Gordon, University of Washington
Metamouse: Improving Multi-user Sharing of Existing Educational Applications
Kurtis Heimerl, UC Berkeley; Eric Brewer, UC Berkeley; Tapan Parikh, UC Berkeley; Janani Vasudev, UC Berkeley; Kelly Buchanan, UC Berkeley
Technology, Teachers, and Training: Combining Theory with Macedonia’s Experience
Laura Hosman, Illinois Institute of Technology; Maja Cvetanoska,
What Exactly is ‘The Internet”?: The Social Meaning of ICTs and Their Ability to Impact Development
Beth Kolko, University of Washington; Cynthia Putnam
Digital and other poverties: Exploring the connection in four East African countries
Julian May, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Beyond Strict Illiteracy: Abstracted Learning Among Low-Literate Users
Indrani Medhi, Microsoft Research India; Raghu Menon, Microsoft Research India; Ed Cutrell, Microsoft Research India; Kentaro Toyama
The Bank Account is not Enough: Examining Strategies for Financial Inclusion in India
Olga Morawczynski, University of Edinburgh; David Hutchful, Microsoft Research India; Nimmi Rangaswamy, Microsoft Research India; Ed Cutrell, Microsoft Research India
Collage: A Presentation Tool for the Developing-World School Teacher
Saurabh Panjwani, Microsoft Research India; Navkar Samdaria, ; Aakar Gupta, Microsoft Research; Ed Cutrell, Microsoft Research India; Kentaro Toyama
ICTD Research by Africans: Origins, Interests, and Impact
Paul Plantinga, Monash University; Shikoh Gitau, University of Cape Town; Kathleen Diga,
A Study of Connectivity in Millennium Villages in Africa
Jyotsna Puri; Patricia Mechael, Earth Instute; Roxana Cosmaciuc; Daniela Sloninsky; Vijay Modi, Columbia University; Matt Berg; Nadi Kaonga, Columbia University; Uyen Kim Hyunh, Seth Ohemeng-Dapaah; Maurice Baraza; Afolayan Emmanuel; Sia Lyimo
Research and Reality: Using Mobile Messages to Promote Maternal Health in Rural India
Divya Ramachandran, UC Berkeley; Vivek Goswami, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology; John Canny, UC Berkeley
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Managing Microfinance with Paper, Pen and Digital Slate
Aishwarya Lakshmi Ratan, Microsoft Research India; Sunandan Chakraborty, INRIA; Kentaro Toyama; Pushkar Chitnis, Microsoft Research India; Keng Siang Ooi; Matthew Phiong; Mike Koenig
Robit: An Extensible Auction-based Market Platform for Challenged Environments
Azarias Reda, University of Michigan; Quang Duong, University of Michigan; Timur Alperovich, University of Michigan; Brian Noble, University of Michigan; Yidnekachew Haile, HilCoe College
Impact of Low-Cost, On-Demand Information Access in a Remote Ghanaian Village
Cliff Schmidt, Literacy Bridge; Trina Gorman, Literacy Bridge; Michael Shayne Gary, Australian Graduate School of Management, University of New South Wales; Andrew Bayor, Literacy Bridge
Looking beyond ‘information provision’: The importance of being a kiosk operator in the Sustainable Access in Rural India (SARI) project
TamilNadu, Janaki Srinivasan, UC Berkeley
SPRING: Speech and Pronunciation Improvement through Games, for Hispanic children
Anuj Tewari, UC Berkeley; Nitesh Goyal, RWTH; Matthew Chan; Tina Yau, Berkeley; John Canny, UC Berkeley; Ulrik Schroeder, RWTH
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Appendix D – ICTD 2010 Demos
Demos
Nutrient Management Decision Support System for Livelihood Security of Farmers
Vijay Aditya et al.
Open Data Kit: Tools to Build Information Services for Developing Regions
Yaw Anokwa et al.
Information and services through mobile phones
Megan Beck et al.
Audio Content Management for the Talking Book Project and Other Rural Audio Knowledge Systems
Michael Busch et al.
Accessible and Customisable Tools to Motivate Braille Literacy
Freddie Dias et al.
Bottom Billion Architecture: An Extensible Software Architecture for ICT Access in the Rural Developing World
Joerg Doerflinger
Using the OpenMRS Electronic Medical Record System for HIV and MDR-TB Sare in Rwanda
Hamish Fraser
Metamouse: Improving Multi-user Sharing of Existing Educational Applications
Kurtis Heimerl et al.
Urdu to Devnagri Transliteration System
Gurpreet Singh Lehal
Cohere: Annotating, Connecting, Exploring and Filtering Open Resources
De Liddo
Mobile Supply Chain Web Services
Ryan McWhorter et al.
Methodology and Tools for Community Based Development of Knowledge Objects
Zbigniew Mikolajuk
Epothecary: Cost-effective Drug Pedigree Tracking and Authentication Using Mobile Phones
Michael Paik and Jay Chen
A General Modular Networked Biometric Terminal
Michael Paik et al.
An Inexpensive Novel Technology for Mobile Healthcare in Developing Regions: a programmable microfluidic system dock for basic mobile phones
Samujjal Purkayastha
The Village Telco
S. Song et al.
SPRING: Speech and Pronunciation Improvement through Games, for Hispanic children
Anuj Tewari, UC Berkeley; Nitesh Goyal, RWTH; Matthew Chan; Tina Yau, Berkeley; John Canny, UC Berkeley; Ulrik Schroeder, RWTH.
Interactive DVDs as a Platform for Education
Bill Thies
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Appendix E – ICTD 2010 Posters
(All posters are available in full on the conference website http://www.ictd2010.org)
Posters
Innovating the Field Level of Microfinance – A Pakistan Case Study
Towards Large Scale Technology Impact Analyses: Automatic Residential Localization from Mobile Phone-Call Data
Muhammad Adeel, Universität Siegen; Bernhard Nett, Universität Siegen; Volker Wulf, Universität Siegen
Vanessa Frias-Martinez, Telefonica Research; Jesus Virseda, TID; Alberto Rubio, TID; Enrique Frias-Martinez, TID
Organizational, Social and Operational Implications in Delivering ICT Solutions: A Telecom Web Case-studyAmit Nanavati, IBM; Nitendra Rajput, IBM; Kundan Srivastava, IBM India Research Lab; Saurabh Srivastava, IIT Bombay
A question of visibility: A rights-based look at ICT centers for persons with disabilities in Latin America
Sheetal Agarwal, IBM India Research Lab; Ketki Dhanesha, IBM India Research Lab; Anupam Jain, IBM India Research Lab; Abhishek Kumar, IBM India Research Lab; Arun Kumar, IBM India Research Lab; Srijit Menon, IBM India Research Lab;
Michele Frix, Seattle International Foundation; Joyojeet Pal, University of Washington
Assessing the scope for use of mobile based solution to improve maternal and child health in Bangladesh: A case study
AppLab Question Box: A Live Voice Information Service in Rural Uganda, Nathaniel Futterman, Question Box
Mafruha Alam, D.Net; Tahmina Khanam, ClickDiagnostics Inc.; Rubayat Khan, Click Diagnostics Inc.
Rose Shuman, Open Mind – Question Box
The role of the intermediary in community multimedia centres
Challenges of eGovernment in Developing Countries: Actor-Network Analysis of Thailand’s Smart ID Card Project
Savita Bailur, London School of Economics
Panom Gunawong, University of Manchester; Dr. Ping Gao, University of Manchester
Supporting the Information Needs of Mobile Microentrepreneurs in the Developing World: The Case of Indonesian Food Cart Vendors
Beyond being a Proxy User: A look at NGOs‟ Potential Role in ICT4D Deployment
Rahmad Dawood, University of Michigan; Steve Jackson, University of Michigan; Jude Yew,
Shikoh Gitau, University of Cape Town; Kathleen Diga, ; Nicola Bidwell, James Cook University ; Gary Marsden, University of Cape Town
Bottom Billion Architecture: An Extensible Software Architecture for ICT Access in the Rural Developing World
Cloze: An Authoring Tool for Teachers with Low Computer Proficiency, David Hutchful, Microsoft Research India
Joerg Doerflinger, SAP Research; Tom Gross, Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany
Ed Cutrell, Microsoft Research India
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The Role of ICTs on Enhancing Collaborative Capital in Developing Economies: A case of SMEs and Non-state Actors in Tanzania
A ratification of means: International law and assistive technology in the developing world
Faustin Kamuzora, Mzumbe University; Simon Msanjila, Mzumbe University
Joyojeet Pal, University of Washington; Anjali Vartak, NYU-Poly; Vrutti Vyas, NYU-Poly; Saikat Chatterjee, ; Nektarios Paisios, NYU; Rahul Cherian, Inclusive Planet
Experiences with a Transportation Information System that Uses Only GPS and SMS
Interactive DVDs as a Platform for Education
Beth Kolko, University of Washington; Ruth Anderson, University of Washington; Waylon Brunette, University of Washington; Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington; Anthony Poon, ; Caitie Lustig, ; Odina Salihbaeva, ; Erica Johnson, ; Cynthia Putnam
Kiran Gaikwad, Microsoft Research India; Gaurav Paruthi, Microsoft Research India; William Thies, Microsoft Research India
Teaching with Storytelling: An Investigation of Narrative Videos for Skills Training, Ilda Ladeira, University of Cape Town
Towards a comprehensive model of the digital economy
Ed Cutrell, Microsoft Research India
Ismael Peña-López, Open University of Catalonia
Access, Use and Impact of Rural Telecentres: Findings from a Village-Level Exploration
Policy-making for digital development: the role of the government
Maitrayee Mukerji, IRMA
Ismael Peña-López, Open University of Catalonia
Using System Dynamics to Model and Analyze a Distance Education Program
Examining the viability of mixed framework for mobile services impact study in India
Sahana Murthy, IIT; Rohit Gujrati, ; Sridhar Iyer, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Kasina Rao, SJMSOM IIT Bombay; Krithi Ramamritham, IIT Bombay; R Sonar, SJM School of Management IIT Bombay
Accountability and the new media: Use of ICTs in Governance in India
The Human Infrastructure of ICTD, Nithya Sambasivan, University of California, Irvi
Sriharini Narayanan, Center for Budget and Policy Studies
Thomas Smyth, Georgia Institute of Technology
Using Mobile Phones and Open Source Tools to Empower Social Workers in Tanzania
Gender Matters: Female Perspectives in ICT4D Research
Daniel Nuffer; Anthony Velazquez, Carnegie Mellon University; M. Beatrice Dias, Carnegie Mellon University; M. Freddie Dias, Carnegie Mellon University; Sarah Belousov, Carnegie Mellon University; Ermine Teves, Carnegie Mellon University; Bradley Hall, Carnegie Mellon University; Hatem Alismail, Carnegie Mellon University; Rotimi Abimbola, Carnegie Mellon University; M. Bernardine Dias, Carnegie Mellon University
Nithya Sambasivan, University of California, Irvi; Shikoh Gitau, University of Cape Town; Ilda Ladeira, University of Cape Town; Nicola Bidwell, James Cook University ; Light Ann; Jahmeilah Roberson, University of California, Irvine; Nimmi Rangaswamy, Microsoft Research India
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Evaluating Facilitated Video Instruction for Primary Schools in Rural India
Amit Saxena, University of Washington; Richard Anderson, University of Washington; Natalie Linnell, University of Washington; Urvashi Sahni, Digital StudyHall; Anjana Arora, Digital StudyHall; Rahul Gupta, Digital StudyHall
Towards a Sustainable and Decentralized Solar Rural Electrification System
Nahanaeli Schelling, New York University; Meredith Hasson, New York University; Ariel Nevarez, New York University; Sara Huong, New York University; Harald Schützeichel, Stiftung Solarenergie; Matt Tierney, New York University; Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, New York University
From telecom switches to telecenters: Changes in the ‘telecom for development’ discourse in India (1947-1999)
Janaki Srinivasan, UC Berkeley
Informed Consent in ICT4D Research, S. Revi Sterling, University of Colorado
Nimmi Rangaswamy, Microsoft Research India
Towards aspiration as a development indicator: the case of information and communication technologies
Isha Ray, UC Berkeley; Renee Wittemyer, Intel Corp
Revolution through Cyberspace: Burmese Blogosphere and Saffron Revolution
Amara Thiha, Uppsala University
A Qualitative Study of the Impact of Mobile Phone Usage on the Social Life in East Africa
Martin Tomitsch, University of Sydney; Florian Sturm, ICT4D.at; Martin Konzett, ICT4D.at; Anders Bolin, ICT4D.at
Investigating Perception Changes in Teachers Attending ICT Curricula through Self-Efficacy
Izak Van Zyl, University of Italian Switz.; Francesca Fanni, USI; Lorenzo Cantoni, USI; Isabella Rega, NewMinE Lab – USI; Stefano Tardini, Usi
Capabilities, Critique and ICTD
Yingqin Zheng, De Montfort University; Bernd Stahl, De Montfort University
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Appendix F – Regional distribution of participants
Location Participants
Location Participants
Europe 146
Africa 66
Austria 4
Ethiopia 2
Finland 1
Ghana 5
France 4
Kenya 9
Germany 6
Mozambique 1
Ireland 5
Nigeria 10
Italy 3
Rwanda 1
Netherlands 9
South Africa 18
Norway 2
Sudan 1
Poland 3
Tanzania 1
Portugal 1
The Gambia 1
Spain 5
Uganda 13
Sweden 13
Zambia 2
Switzerland 10
Zimbabwe 2
UK 79
Ukraine 1
Central & South america 20
Argentina 3
North America 103
Brazil 6
Canada 11
Chile 1
USA 92
Colombia 1
Costa Rica 2
Asia 67
Dominican Republic 1
Afghanistan 2
Mexico 1
Australia 5
Peru 4
Bangladesh 6
Trinidad and Tobago 1
Cambodia 2
China 4
Middle East 19
Hong Kong 1
Egypt 3
India 29
Jordan 2
Japan 1
Lebanon 2
Malaysia 3
Palestine 1
Pakistan 1
Qatar 7
Philippines 6
Syria 4
Singapore 3
Sri Lanka 3
Thailand 1
Location not provided 99
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Appendix G – Participant costs
Registration fees
Registration on or
before 22nd September
2010
Registration between
23rd September and
30th November 2010
Normal rate £275 £350
Reduced rate* £200 £250
£125 £175
Accomodation fees
Cost per night (B&B) -
Single
Cost per night (B&B) -
Twin
£30 £55
£59 £80
Full 4 day
registration
People from countries ranked below 100th on the latest Human Development Index
available on 1st June 2010
People who are unwaged or on low incomes; and
Representatives of Civil Society Organisations (including Non-Governmental
Organisations);
Exceptional cases were alsoconsidered for those who wished to attend and could not
afford the full conference rate. This included:
Students (Postgraduate or undergraduate students were required to submit evidence
that they were students at a recognised university)
*Reduced rates were available for the following specific categories of people, and were
at the discretion of the organising committee:
£44
Premium En Suite
En Suite
Standard
1 day registration