Hi all,
my name is Simone Sala and I graduated in Information and Communication Technologies at the University of Milan, after a four-month research in FAO on the applications of Information and Communication for Development to Natural Resources management and Climate Change Adaptation in Developing Countries. The focus of my studies and experiences is ICTs for Development: in my bachelor thesis I designed an outdoor wireless network for a community of rural Sierra Leone, and I managed also a cooperation project in Ghana for an Italian Ngo (RAY Foundation). I am currently involved in a joint Research program of FAO and the Italian Ministry for Environment and Territory, on the topic of Information&Communication for Natural Resources Management and Climate Change Adaptation.
In November I became an associate member of ICT4D Collective of Royal Holloway, University of London, and I won a scholarship and now I'm a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Milan: through the complementary work at my University and in FAO in the last months I had the chance to deepen my knowledge about the potential applications of ICTs in the Climate Change field and in the broader environmental sector. In this sense I designed some pre-feasibility study of ICTs applications in these fields: in an official conference at the Italian ministry of Foreign Affairs I proposed the participatory application of a set of software tools to manage the Jordan river basin to a tripartite organization of Palestinian, Israeli and Jordan authorities (EXACT Meeting). Even if I didn't make any practical application of ICT for Environment yet, I consider this as one of my best work because my intervention was very successful.
I think that the workshop will be the ideal side for making me push things forward, sharing what I learnt with other researchers. In my opinion, sharing is surely the best way to learn.. and I look forward being in Uppsala!
