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IST-Africa 2010 Agenda

Updated: 2010-05-11 16:16:27

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Day 2: 20 May 2010

09:00

09:00	Workshop 5a: 8th Africa-EU Strategic Partnership - Information Society
	Chair: Mohamed Ben Amor, CERT, Tunisia Co-Chair: Ilari Lindy, SAIS II, Belgium
	Showcase of EU and African Member State Funded Activities; Proposals for New Activities (continued) New Propositions of Actions in the Field of ICT by EU Member States Jean-Pascal CHATEL, Ministry of Industry , France ICT Initiatives in Kenya Eric Mwangi, Ministry of Education, Kenya ICT Initiatives in Tanzania Hamisi Nguli, ex COSTECH, Tanzania ICT Initiatives in Cameroon Peter Mokube, National Agency for Information and Communication Technologies, Cameroon ICT Co-operation between the Italian Republic and the Republic of South Africa Giusto Sciarabba, Embassy of Italy, South Africa ICT Initiatives in Uganda Maxwell Otim, Uganda National Council for Science and Technology, Uganda Presentations from Industry on PPP Tracks; Recommendations from the EU-Africa Business Forum Discussion on Prioritization Criteria and Concrete Way Forward to Support Implementation of the Selected Initiatives P8/Information Society Action Plan 2011-2013 & EU-Africa Summit Side-events

09:00	Session 5b: Technology Transfer & Leveraging ICT to address the Digital Divide
	Chair: Helena Tapper, GESCI, Kenya
	Desirable Practices for Contact Centres Outsourced to an African Country Mike Hart, University of Cape Town, South Africa Technology Solutions to Strengthen the Integration of Marginalized Communities into the Global Knowledge Society Jimmy Samalenge, University of Fort Hare, South Africa Bridging the Digital Divide through Community User Information Systems: Kitsong Centres Resego Morakanyane, University of Botswana, Botswana

09:00	Session 5c: Technology Enhanced Learning - Leveraging Devices to Improve Skills
	Chair: Wallace Taylor, TISI - The Information Society Institute, South Africa
	The eSkills Summit & Building a National eSkills Plan of Action - NeSPA Harold Wesso, Meraka eSkills Institute, South Africa BingBee @ RaglanRoad – A Field Trial with Unattended Educational Kiosks Peter Wentworth, Rhodes University, South Africa Hypercontextualizing a Game Workshop in Tanzania Carolina A. Islas Sedano, University of Eastern Finland, Finland C³TO: An Architecture for Implementing a Chat Based Call Centre and Tutoring Online Laurie Butgereit, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa Dr Math gets MUDDY: The "Dirt" on How to Attract Teenagers to Mathematics and Science by Using Multi-User Dungeon Games over Mxit on Cell Phones Laurie Butgereit, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa Technology Enhanced Learning from a Government Perspective Rosey Sekese , Department of Communications, South Africa

09:00	Session 5d: eAccessibility - Case Studies
	Chair: Darelle van Greunen, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa
	Maths and Visually Impaired Students: The Lambda System Giuseppe Nicotra, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Access to Music by Blind People Giovanni Bertoni, Arca progetti srl, Italy An Alternative Multi-User Interaction Screen: Initial Ergonomic Test Results Andrew Cyrus Smith, CSIR, South Africa Accessibility Gift Buthelezi, Department of Communications, South Africa The National Accessibility Portal and Social Networking Sites: How to Make Facebook and Twitter Work for You Laurie Butgereit, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa

09:00	Workshop 5e: State of the art of African Research and Education Networking and lessons from South America
	Chair: Francis Tusubira, UbuntuNet Alliance, Uganda Co-Chair: Boubakar Barry, WACREN, Senegal
	WACREN Pascal Hoba, UbuntuNet Alliance , Malawi UbuntuNet Alliance Duncan Martin, UbuntuNet Alliance, South Africa RED CLARA María José López, RED CLARA, Chile InnovaRed, Argentina Aníbal Gattone, Innova-Red, Argentina

10:30

	Coffee Break : Coffee Break

11:00

11:00	Workshop 6a: IST-Africa - Linking European and African Researchers
	Chair: Paul Cunningham, IIMC / IST-Africa Institute, Ireland Co-Chair: Anneline Morgan, Southern African Development Community, Botswana
	Research Capacity and Challenges in South Africa Mmboneni Muofhe, Department of Science and Innovation, South Africa Research Capacity and Challenges in Lesotho Lefa Thamae, Department of Science and Technology, Lesotho Research Capacity and Challenges in Namibia Immo Onuegbu, Ministry of Education, Namibia Research Capacity and Challenges in Burundi Augustin Nsabiyumva, Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Burundi Research Capacity and Challenges in Senegal Almamy Konte, Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur, des Universités et des Centres Universitaires Régionaux et de la Recherche Scientifique, Senegal

11:00	Session 6b: Digital Libraries
	Chair: Bernard Stevenot, SPACEBEL, Belgium
	Open Knowledge on e-Infrastructures: The BELIEF Digital Library Simon Taylor, Brunel University, United Kingdom Experiences with Developing Language Processing Tools and Corpora for Amharic Björn Gambäck, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Challenges of Library and Information Science Capacity Building in Southern Sudan: A Situational Analysis Elisam Magara, Makerere University, Uganda ICT User Skills Building and the Possibility of Incorporating Intelligent Content in Research4Life Programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa Sailas Nyareza, Information Training and Outreach Centre for Africa, South Africa

11:00	Session 6c: Technology Enhanced Learning in Third Level Institutions
	Chair: Harold Wesso, Meraka eSkills Institute, South Africa
	Accordent Media Management System Technology and its Integration with the MERLINGO Portal Services Ivo Martiník, Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic E-Learning2.0 – The Power of Participation: Case Study on Further Developing Standards and Quality Assurance for e-Learning within the ACVCD-Project Stephan Raimer, College of Cooperative Education Schleswig-Holstein (WAK-SH), Germany The Impact of Podcasting on Student Lecture Attendance Juan de Lange, UKZN, South Africa The SAFIPA-Meraka Institute Code-sprints Program; A Mechanism to Enhance the Development Capacity of Emerging Developers -- Observations and Lessons Learned Louis Coetzee, Meraka Institute, CSIR, South Africa Strategizing Computer-supported Collaborative Learning Towards Knowledge Building Evode Mukama, National University of Rwanda, Rwanda

11:00	Workshop 6d: Services for the Autonomous Living and Mobility of the Elderly
	Chair: Maria Panou, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece
	An Ontological Framework for the Elderly to Control their Home Environment Gerrit Telkamp, DOMOLOGIC Home Automation GmbH, Germany eHealth Services for the Elderly at Home and on the Move Maria Fernanda Cabrera-Umpierrez, Polytechnic Unversity of Madrid, Spain Use Cases and Scenarios for Remote Support of the Elderly to Live Autonomously Alone Evangelos Bekiaris, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece User Interfaces and Strategies for Guidance of Elderly in Emergencies through Nomadic Devices Harald Widlroither, University of Stuttgart , Germany Assessing the Accessibility of UI for all Ages Karel Van Isacker, Marie Curie Association, Bulgaria Pedestrian and Multimodal Route Guidance Adaptation for Elderly Citizens Maria Panou, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece

11:00	Workshop 6e: Building a Research and Education Network Infrastructure in Africa - Emerging Content and Applications Networks
	Chair: Bjorn Pehrson, KTH, Sweden
	ERINA Simon Taylor, Brunel University, United Kingdom ERINA4Africa Margaret Ngwira, , Malawi Grid Computing in Africa Bruce Becker, Meraka Institute, CSIR, South Africa Example from CLARA Aníbal Gattone, Innova-Red, Argentina Practical Case Study in Uganda: ICT Used in the Agricultural Sector Nodumo Dhlamini, RUFORUM, Uganda

12:30

	Lunch : Lunch

14:00

14:00	Workshop 7a: Africa4All – Leveraging ICT in African Parliaments
	Chair: Vasilis Koulolias, eGovlab, Sweden
	Africa4All Parliamentary Initiative Vasilis Koulolias, eGovlab, Sweden Current ICT Initiatives and Future Plans for Civil Engagement at the Parliament of Namibia: Successes, Challenges and Lessons Learnt Marianne Gei-khoibes, National Assembly of the Parliament of Namibia, Namibia Initial Experiences in Parliament of Lesotho Moeketsi Liphoto, Parliament of Lesotho, Lesotho

14:00	Workshop 7b: Challenges & Opportunities for African-European ICT Partnerships in FP7
	Chair: Mmboneni Muofhe, Department of Science and Innovation, South Africa
	Taking Advantage of FP7 Opportunities Mmboneni Muofhe, Department of Science and Innovation, South Africa The State of African Participation in ICT Theme of FP7 Segopotso Moshapo, SAP Research CEC Pretoria, South Africa Experiences from the Digital World Forum Project Thato Foko, Meraka Institute, South Africa EuroAfrica-ICT - Promoting and Supporting the Development of S&T Cooperation on ICT Research between Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa Karine Valin, Sigma Orionis, France GEO-Africa/AfricaSat-1 project Gregory Pedersen, EADS Astrium, France

14:00	Session 7c: Technology Enhanced Learning - Case Studies
	Chair: Love Ekenberg, Stockholm University , Sweden
	Technology Enhanced Learning for Remote Nurses in KwaZulu-Natal Jennifer Chipps, UKZN, South Africa Planning an Multi-institutional Information for Development Study Centre Erkki Sutinen , University of Turku, Finland Mobile and Context: Divide or Conquer? Adele Botha, CSIR, South Africa The Intranet as a Knowledge Enabler Towards a Knowledge Management Strategy in a South African Organisation Udo Averweg, Information Services, eThekwini Municipality and University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Go Mobile! The Mobile Learning Institute Leadership Summit Adele Botha, CSIR, South Africa

14:00	Session 7d: eHealth - Issues and Case Studies
	Chair: Loi Namugenyi, Uganda National Council for Science & Technology, Uganda
	Medical Research Council and eHealth in South Africa Jill Fortuin Abrahams, Medical Research Council, South Africa Privacy and Data Protection in eHealth: A Comparative Approach between South African and French Legal Systems Nathalie Ferraud-Ciandet, Grenoble Ecole de Management, France BudhuDas: An eHealth Business Model for Emerging Countries Yvonne Wickramasinghe, Univeristy of Colombo School of Computing, Sri Lanka HealthChange: A Change Management Model for an eHealth Solution in Developing Countries Dulindra Wijethilake, University of Colombo School of Computing, Sri Lanka

14:00	Workshop 7e: Building a Research and Education Network Infrastructure in Africa: Policy Perspectives and AfricaConnect
	Chair: Leonardo Flores, European Commission, Belgium Co-Chair: Ahmed Hamdy, African Union Commission, Ethiopia
	European Commission Perspectives Kostas Glinos, European Commission, Belgium African Union Commission Perspectives Ahmed Hamdy, African Union Commission, Ethiopia The AfricaConnect Implementation Plan Cathrin Stover , DANTE , United Kingdom FEAST Identification of Remaining Gaps Bjorn Pehrson, KTH, Sweden The Role of African RRENs and NRENs Pascal Hoba, UbuntuNet Alliance , Malawi The eI-Africa Project Karine Valin, Sigma Orionis, France

15:30

	Coffee Break : Coffee Break

16:00

16:00	Workshop 8a: Africa4All - Leveraging ICT in African Parliaments II
	Chair: Vasilis Koulolias, eGovlab, Sweden
	Enhancing Democracy through use of ICT - Experience of Uganda Aloysius Makata, Parliament of Uganda, Uganda ICT for Productivity in Parliament: Kenya Parliament Experiences Owino Harrison, Kenya National Assembly, Kenya Leveraging ICT in the Parliament of Tanzania Didas Wambura, Parliament of the United Republic of Tanzania, Tanzania

16:00	Workshop 8b: Research Interoperability, Digitisation Techniques and Digital Preservation: the Europeana context
	Chair: Robert Davies, MDR Partners, United Kingdom
	Research and the interoperability of Europeana Robert Davies, MDR Partners, United Kingdom Technologies, Standards and Business Models for the Formation of Virtual Collections of 3D Replicas of Museum Objects: the 3D-COFORM Project Franco Niccolucci, PIN - University of Florence, Italy The Work of eIFL with Digital Libraries in Africa Monika Segbert-Elbert, eIFL.net, Italy African Scholarship: Bringing Local Knowledge Production to the Global Research Infrastructure Dale Peters, University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa A Strategic Approach to Research Publishing in South Africa Susan Veldsman, Academy of Science of South Africa, South Africa

16:00	Workshop 8c: SAFIPA – Digital Learning and Open Education Solutions
	Chair: Ashraf Patel, SAFIPA Programme, South Africa
	YESA Science Education Case Study Ron Beyers, CSIR , South Africa An Overview of new Web 2.0 Trends in Digital Education and Open Content in Africa Thato Foko, Meraka Institute, South Africa Maths Multimedia Pilot Project for South Africa Curriculum Riyaadh Ebrahim, CECS, South Africa Mobile Learning and Digital Content Modules for Children - A Case Study Paul Moeng, New Media, South Africa Open Source Platforms and Tools for Online Learning – Wits Case Study Derek Keats, Wits University, South Africa Nokia Mobile Maths Project Riitta Vänskä, NOKIA, Finland Interactive Virtual Reality (IVR) Methodology for Community Education Dave Lockwood, the Naledi3d Factory (Pty)Ltd, South Africa

16:00	Session 8d: eHealth - Information Management Systems
	Chair: Richard Stevens, -, Italy
	A Multi-Country Examination of Approaches for Investigating the Attitudes of Health Care Professionals towards the Development and Use of Information Systems Deana Leadbeter, University of Keele, United Kingdom Using Local knowledge in Information Gathering Process: Case study from Ethiopia Zufan Damtew, University of Oslo, Norway Analyzing Mother and Child Health Policy-Driven Information Subsystems in Mozambique Through the Lens of Activity Theory Gertrudes Macueve, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique Towards a Socio-Technical Approach in ICT-Supported Socio-Economic Development Retha de la Harpe, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa

16:00	Workshop 8e: Building a Research and Education Network Infrastructure in Africa - Round Table on Next Steps and Synergy between Actors
	Chair: Vera Brenda Ngosi, Director, HRST, African Union Commission, Ethiopia Co-Chair: Kostas Glinos, European Commission, Belgium
	Francis Tusu, UbuntuNet Alliance Boubakar Barry, AAU María José López, CLARA Bjorn Pehrson, KTH Cathrin Stover, DANTE

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IST-Africa 2010 Conference & Exhibition

19 - 21 May 2010, Durban, South Africa

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IST-Africa 2010 Agenda

Day 2: 20 May 2010