Hi there,

How do you stand on three legs and put equal weight on all three? How many intellectual legs can we develop? For me this workshop can give us an answer.

ICT is traditionally very technology oriented. Environmental issues are mainly taken up by environmentalists, and nowadays also by politicians. ICT and managing the natural resources and the environment is done by people, people with different ideas, wants, backgrounds, focus, capacity, training etc. This is why I think we cannot talk about environment without talking about people, we cannot talk about ICT without considering the people using the technologies.

For this event we are asking people to make an effort and try to stand on three legs: environment, ICT and people, in presentations, discussions and in other interactions. We are looking forward to an event where we can start thinking in new directions, triggered by meeting people with different ideas and backgrounds then ourselves.

I am an anthropologist by training, I have been working in the interface between science and practice for ten years. Since two years I am working as a project coordinator at SLU.

See you in April!