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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

International Conference on

Information and Communication Technologies and Development


ICTD 2010 Post Conference report of 39

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





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





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.





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)





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.





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.





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





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





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





(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.





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.





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





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





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

London 2010 Qatar 2009





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





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





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





Figure 6 Regional Distribution of Scholarship recipients

Figure 7 The difference scholarships made the to the overall mix of participants

33%

25%

15%

16%

9%2%

Africa

Asia

North America

Central & South America

Europe

Middle East

-8%

-4%

0%

4%

8%

Europe North America

Asia Africa Central & South America

Middle East

Fewer overall participants





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





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.





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





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.





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/

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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



Ernest Wilson

Local Organising Committee

University of Southern California

Tim Unwin

Senior Programme Committee


Richard Anderson

Dorothea Kleine

University of Washington


Michael Best

Peter Dell’Osa

Georgia Institute of Technology


Eric Brewer

G. Harindranath



Jenna Burrell

Matthew Woodham



Jonathan Donner

Thao Nguyen

Microsoft Research


Richard Duncombe

Postgraduate Representative: Endrit Kromidha

University of Manchester


Hernan Galperin

Conference Project Manager

University of San Andres

Peter Dell’Osa

Alison Gillwald


Research ICT Africa

ICTD Advisory Board

Dean Karlan

Francois Bar

Yale University

University of Southern California

Dorothea Kleine

Michael Best


Georgia Institute of Technology

Alemayehu Molla

Ken Keniston

RMIT University

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tapan Parikh

Balaji Parthasarathy


International Institute of Information Technology IIIT Bangalore





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 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


IIM-A

Sherif Kamel

Richard Boateng

American University of Cairo

Southern University

Wendy Kellogg

Gaetano Borriello

IBM


G.R. Kiran

John Canny

London School of Economics


Beth Kolko

Jose-Rodrigo Cordoba-Pachon



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





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


Chinese University of Hong Kong

Kostas Stathis

S. Rajagopalan


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


Spanish Language Committee

Umar Saif

Eduardo Villanueva

Lahore University of Management Sciences

Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru

Jahanzeb Sherwani

Ricardo Gomez


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


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


C-STEP





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


Endrit Kromidha

Scholarships

Jean Damascene Mazimpaka

Andrea Burris

Charles Murphy


Thao Nguyen

Roberta Bernardi

Uduak Okon


Yomi Omogbeja

IT liaison

Ben Parfitt

Win Min Tun

Olly Parsons


Carlos Rey

New Media Co-ordinator

Saeid Sadeghi

Lisa Cespedes

Merle St. Clair Auguste


Fernanda Scur

Sustainability

Vivek Soundararajan

Wouter Geerts

Win Tun


Ugo Vallauri

Facilities Management

Man Xu

Matthew Woodham


Sandie Venables






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)





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)





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)





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





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





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





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





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





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





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





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

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1 day registration

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