[AISWorld] Invitation and domestic travel grants for attending a seminar on ICT4D in Sweden

[M. Sirajul Islam]

You are cordially invited to a seminar on ‘Global initiatives on 
connecting the unconnected: Myth and reality’ to be held on November 11, 2011 at Örebro University (Hall Nr. HSF, Forumhuset, 10:15 – 13:00). 

The theme of this seminar is as follows: 

Evidence
 consistently suggests that many ICT4D projects are total failures and 
one-half are partial failures, leaving little room for success. We are 
often blinded from this reality by the blizzard of e-development pilots,
 prototypes, plans and possibilities where "would" and "could" replace 
"does" and "has". We therefore must have the courage to challenge the 
MDGs and to take a broader look at ways in which ICTs can contribute to 
socio-economic development. If we do not, we may miss a generational 
opportunity to properly harness new technology for the good of all. 
Within this perspective, the focus of the seminar is expected to be how 
global initiatives on ICT4D are addressing the needs of poor people, 
what the challenges and development effects have been evident so far, 
and how effectively ICT can be applied in the development agenda.

Confirmed speakers are: 

- Rahul De, Hewlett-Packard Chair Professor, Indian Institute  of Management Bangalore, 
  India 

- Maung Sein, Professor of Information Systems, University of  Agder, Norway

- John Traxler, Director of the Learning Lab and Professor,  University of Wolverhampton, UK

- Dorothea Kleine, Director, MSc Practising Sustainable  Development (ICT4D specialism), 
  UNESCO Chair/Centre in ICT4D, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

The
 seminar will be Chaired by Åke  Grönlund, Professor of Informatics at 
Örebro University,Sweden and Chair of AIS Special Interest Group on 
Electronic Government (SIGeGov).

IPID (www.ipid.se) will grant domestic travel 
allowance up to SEK 600 to 10 postgraduate (masters and PhD) students 
affiliated with any of Swedish universities. Please apply with a brief 
motivation to sirajul.islam at oru.se on or before October 31, 2011.



- Siraj

(M. Sirajul Islam)


Coordinator
The International Network for Post Graduate Students in the Area of ICT4D (IPID)
& 
Universitetadjunck
Örebro University
Swedish Business School
Room No. L2121, Fakultetsgatan 1
Örebro 70182, Sweden
Mobile: +46-76-17-17-193,+46-739-961-071

http://www.facebook.com/m.sirajul.islam 
Email : sirajul.islam at oru.se
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