Wednesday, 6 February 2008

Rasmus Larsen


Greetings!

I work at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), primarily with our msc programme in Integrated Water Resource Management. Together with colleagues at SLU I am organising this upcoming workshop in ICT and Environment.

My most memorable experience in relation to ICT and environment may be the video-conference seminar we had in the Network for Integrated Transboundary Water Research (NITWAR) last yr with the International Institute for Rural Reconstruction based in Kampala, Uganda. It was a special feeling connecting across time zones and distance with Kennedy Igbokwe and his colleagues, and their partners from the university in Kampala as well as the district fisheries and natural resource management officials from Lake Kyoga. Students from the msc programme in IWRM were present and enjoyed a good two hrs dialogue.

My main aspiration for the workshop is that we may identify and see emerge effective ways of enabling fruitful collaboration amongst a diverse group of people all summoned by an interest in how ICT tools can be applied in the broad field of environmental work. I look forward to learn more about how technical solutions can be employed in harmony with values of democracy, gender, and stakeholder dialogue!

Best wishes
Rasmus

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