Hi,
Thanks for an interresting meeting.
Just want to let you know about the coming conference:
"Big Brother and Empowered Sisters"
The role of new communication technologies in democratic processes
April 16 - 17, 2008
MissionskyrkanSt. Olofsgatan 40, Uppsala
see the link.
Greetings Ninni Uhrus
Thursday 10 April 2008
Monday 7 April 2008
Useful Chapter
Hi,
I personally learnt a lot of new things in the field of ICT and Environment in today's session.
My enthusiasm in this field led me to explore more. Meanwhile, I found one chapter related to almost similar issue that we are dealing with in "Handbook of Development Economics , Volume-4, 2007". I am sure many of you have already read it but for those who have not, I feel worth reading.
Chapter 48- Information Networks in Dynamic Agrarian Economies
Kaivan Munshia
aDepartment of Economics, Box B, Brown University, 64 Waterman Street, Providence, RI 02912, USA and NBER, USA
Available online 23 February 2008.
Shrwan
I personally learnt a lot of new things in the field of ICT and Environment in today's session.
My enthusiasm in this field led me to explore more. Meanwhile, I found one chapter related to almost similar issue that we are dealing with in "Handbook of Development Economics , Volume-4, 2007". I am sure many of you have already read it but for those who have not, I feel worth reading.
Chapter 48- Information Networks in Dynamic Agrarian Economies
Kaivan Munshia
aDepartment of Economics, Box B, Brown University, 64 Waterman Street, Providence, RI 02912, USA and NBER, USA
Available online 23 February 2008.
Shrwan
Sunday 6 April 2008
Björn Pehrson
I am into communication systems and want to know more about user communication needs and their requirements on networks.
Thursday 3 April 2008
Differences of internet Use among Students
Hi ,
My name is Shrwan Khanal, a Nepali citizen pursuing Master's in Development and International Cooperation at the University of Jyvaskyla Finland. I am researching on "Internet use among the Students at the University of Zambia". I just came back from four months field visit in Zambia and writing my thesis. I am looking at the relationship between internet use and gender and nature of study. Currently, I got an opportunity to visit Nordic Africa Institute at Upsala as study grant holder. I found this workshop very interesting. Of course, my study is not very much related with environment and ICT but I believe I can meet many scholars who might have a lot of idea about ICT in academic sectors in Africa and have input for my work.
Looking forward to see you all.
Shrwan
My name is Shrwan Khanal, a Nepali citizen pursuing Master's in Development and International Cooperation at the University of Jyvaskyla Finland. I am researching on "Internet use among the Students at the University of Zambia". I just came back from four months field visit in Zambia and writing my thesis. I am looking at the relationship between internet use and gender and nature of study. Currently, I got an opportunity to visit Nordic Africa Institute at Upsala as study grant holder. I found this workshop very interesting. Of course, my study is not very much related with environment and ICT but I believe I can meet many scholars who might have a lot of idea about ICT in academic sectors in Africa and have input for my work.
Looking forward to see you all.
Shrwan
Anna... ICTs, learning, adaptation (& sunshine)
Hi! I'm Anna Taylor. I work for the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), based at the Oxford Centre in the UK... although I just got back yesterday from a month in South Africa (which is home and currently far more sunny than here) where I worked out of our office at the University of Cape Town and did some fieldwork in Lesotho on rural livelihoods and the use of wetlands.
Much of the work I do at SEI Oxford is related to climate vulnerability and adaptation, livelihoods and water resource management, with a focus on actor-oriented participatory processes to support decision making and learning.
I have recently become increasingly involved and interested in issues of communication and learning in the context of social, organisational and individual development and adaptation. ICTs have an increasingly important role to play in connecting people and making information accessible but there is also the danger of perpetuating existing inequalities and gaps as well as creating new ones if we are not careful. Issues of access, skills, power, choice, inclusion, lifestyle, culture and language are all, I think, important ones to consider when discussing ICTs. The old adages of information and knowledge is power and the benefit of being well connected will no doubt remain as true as ever but they may well change in nature in the age of widespread use of ICTs.
One of the new initiatives we are heading up, which has an important ICT component, is that of developing a collaborative platform on climate adaptation, called weADAPT, providing guidance on climate risk management. One element of this platform is a wiki, collaboratively used for documenting and sharing information on adaptation process, including methods, tools, experiences, lessons, data, etc. Two big issues that are coming up for us in this regard are quality control / assurance and effectively communicating and dealing with uncertainty.
I am really looking forward to participating in this workshop because there is a lot of scope for using new technologies in adressing environment and development challenges, we already have a lot to learn from each others experiences and I'm sure we can together come up with some exciting new ideas!
See you in Uppsala.
Much of the work I do at SEI Oxford is related to climate vulnerability and adaptation, livelihoods and water resource management, with a focus on actor-oriented participatory processes to support decision making and learning.
I have recently become increasingly involved and interested in issues of communication and learning in the context of social, organisational and individual development and adaptation. ICTs have an increasingly important role to play in connecting people and making information accessible but there is also the danger of perpetuating existing inequalities and gaps as well as creating new ones if we are not careful. Issues of access, skills, power, choice, inclusion, lifestyle, culture and language are all, I think, important ones to consider when discussing ICTs. The old adages of information and knowledge is power and the benefit of being well connected will no doubt remain as true as ever but they may well change in nature in the age of widespread use of ICTs.
One of the new initiatives we are heading up, which has an important ICT component, is that of developing a collaborative platform on climate adaptation, called weADAPT, providing guidance on climate risk management. One element of this platform is a wiki, collaboratively used for documenting and sharing information on adaptation process, including methods, tools, experiences, lessons, data, etc. Two big issues that are coming up for us in this regard are quality control / assurance and effectively communicating and dealing with uncertainty.
I am really looking forward to participating in this workshop because there is a lot of scope for using new technologies in adressing environment and development challenges, we already have a lot to learn from each others experiences and I'm sure we can together come up with some exciting new ideas!
See you in Uppsala.
Tuesday 1 April 2008
Hydro and Agro Informatics Institute
I am Dr. Royol Chitradon, Director of Hydro and Agro Informatics Institute (HAII).
Please allow me to give a brief description of HAII.
Hydro and Agro Informatics Institute was founded on 16th January 2004 under National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), the Ministry of Science and Technology, Thailand, as an informatics institute on water resources and agriculture.
With the information system, government agencies who deal with water resource and agricultural issues should have essential information before making any decisions on their plans and operations especially in crisis like drought and flood. The information system includes the important data to apply for the implementation of following up, planning, and managing water resources and agriculture in order to lessen the loss of economic and social growth caused by water issues.
To reach sustainable development, the collaboration of agencies, essential knowledge, and appropriate technology are required. Two main tasks for HAII are to create an essential information system on water resource and agricultural management and found cooperative networks among different organizations.
Please visit our links for more details of our work:
http://www.haii.or.th//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=60
http://www.thaiag.net/
http://www.thaiwater.net/
http://www.thaiweather.net/
It is a pleasure to be invited as one of the key note speakers of this seminar. I am looking forward to seeing you all at the event. The following is details of the presentation:
1. Information about climate change at the global level
2. Information about climate change at the regional level
3. Information about climate change at the country level
4. Community water resource management in the northeast of Thailand: shown how the community develop and manage their plans to cope with climate change risks.
Please visit this link for more information of the community in the northeast of Thailand “Ban Limthong Community"
http://www.haii.or.th//index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=47&func=startdown&id=37
http://www.haii.or.th//index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=47&func=fileinfo&id=6
Please allow me to give a brief description of HAII.
Hydro and Agro Informatics Institute was founded on 16th January 2004 under National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), the Ministry of Science and Technology, Thailand, as an informatics institute on water resources and agriculture.
With the information system, government agencies who deal with water resource and agricultural issues should have essential information before making any decisions on their plans and operations especially in crisis like drought and flood. The information system includes the important data to apply for the implementation of following up, planning, and managing water resources and agriculture in order to lessen the loss of economic and social growth caused by water issues.
To reach sustainable development, the collaboration of agencies, essential knowledge, and appropriate technology are required. Two main tasks for HAII are to create an essential information system on water resource and agricultural management and found cooperative networks among different organizations.
Please visit our links for more details of our work:
http://www.haii.or.th//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=60
http://www.thaiag.net/
http://www.thaiwater.net/
http://www.thaiweather.net/
It is a pleasure to be invited as one of the key note speakers of this seminar. I am looking forward to seeing you all at the event. The following is details of the presentation:
1. Information about climate change at the global level
2. Information about climate change at the regional level
3. Information about climate change at the country level
4. Community water resource management in the northeast of Thailand: shown how the community develop and manage their plans to cope with climate change risks.
Please visit this link for more information of the community in the northeast of Thailand “Ban Limthong Community"
http://www.haii.or.th//index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=47&func=startdown&id=37
http://www.haii.or.th//index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=47&func=fileinfo&id=6
Wednesday 26 March 2008
Dear All,
I am working at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) at the Sida Helpdesk for Environmental Assessments that is part of the EIA-Centre at SLU. We are commissioned by Sida - Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency - to assist in the work to integrate environmental perspectives into Swedish development cooperation. Development has to take natural resources and environment on which people depend for their livelihood into account to be sustainable. Environmental assessments are therefore important for integrating environmental aspects into the design and decision-making of development projects and programmes. We work from a holistic point of view through a wide sustainability approach, including strategic environmental assessment.
As we were invited to the ICT workshop, we discussed what our contribution could be. At first, we did not find any nor could we see the linkages. But… after some thinking we realised that we may have quite a lot of sharing to do, if we stand on three legs; environment, people and ICT.
To be honest I have seen several ICT projects in developing countries failing. There are of course many reasons for that and for some of them they had to fail, while others not necessarily had to go that way. Many times a major reason was that experts somehow thought they had the good (read; best) solutions for … there are many lessons learned to be done and I can see that SPIDER and this workshop can bring us all a step further through sharing, learning and cooperating.
I do not think that there are connections or that searching for linkages, between environment and ICT, in every project is necessary or a goal as such. Key is to find the specific added-value or support when looking for special solutions in a specific project or context.
I look forward to present one of our projects; we are developing a web-based tool in order to integrate environment in projects/programmes/sectors and that is an example to discuss further together with you, whereas I can bring back experience to my colleagues…
Looking forward to meet you all,
Anja
I am working at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) at the Sida Helpdesk for Environmental Assessments that is part of the EIA-Centre at SLU. We are commissioned by Sida - Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency - to assist in the work to integrate environmental perspectives into Swedish development cooperation. Development has to take natural resources and environment on which people depend for their livelihood into account to be sustainable. Environmental assessments are therefore important for integrating environmental aspects into the design and decision-making of development projects and programmes. We work from a holistic point of view through a wide sustainability approach, including strategic environmental assessment.
As we were invited to the ICT workshop, we discussed what our contribution could be. At first, we did not find any nor could we see the linkages. But… after some thinking we realised that we may have quite a lot of sharing to do, if we stand on three legs; environment, people and ICT.
To be honest I have seen several ICT projects in developing countries failing. There are of course many reasons for that and for some of them they had to fail, while others not necessarily had to go that way. Many times a major reason was that experts somehow thought they had the good (read; best) solutions for … there are many lessons learned to be done and I can see that SPIDER and this workshop can bring us all a step further through sharing, learning and cooperating.
I do not think that there are connections or that searching for linkages, between environment and ICT, in every project is necessary or a goal as such. Key is to find the specific added-value or support when looking for special solutions in a specific project or context.
I look forward to present one of our projects; we are developing a web-based tool in order to integrate environment in projects/programmes/sectors and that is an example to discuss further together with you, whereas I can bring back experience to my colleagues…
Looking forward to meet you all,
Anja
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