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Sat, 19 Jun 2010 14:05:30 +0200

Föreståndare till Centret Spider

Vid Institutionen för data- och systemvetenskap (DSV), Stockholms universitet. Ref nr SU 618-1658-10.Svar senast 2010-08-23.

SPIDER at the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa

Afzal Sher — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:44:43 +0100

The 14th Ordinary Summit of the African Union was held in Addis Ababa from 31st January to 02 feb 2010 at the UNCC-ECA permises. More than 1000 participants from 53 African participated in the Summit. Many countries were represented by the heads of their respective governments.

Staff changes

Daniel Berggren — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:01:45 +0100

Our director Dr. Afzal Sher has decided to return to Sida after 5 years as director of SPIDER. At Sida he will continue to champion ICT4D in development cooperation.

Karoline Beronius is also moving on to new challenges. As of March 8 she will be working at KTH with the new EIT ICT Labs.

INFORM opens website to encourage better information-content training

Lotta Rydström — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:13:40 +0100

INFORM (International Network for Online Resources and Materials) at Uppsala University, delivers onsite information training in lower- and middle-income countries, teaching information end-users how to get into free, high-quality resources.

Travel scholarship for e-learning Africa in Zambia, May 26-28th 2010

Daniel Berggren — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:39:41 +0100

SPIDER is offering 6 travel scholarships á 25 000 SEK. Priority is given to Swedish researchers presenting at E-learning Africa, but is secondly available for all Swedish researchers focusing on e-learning who belong to one of the 16 SPIDER affiliated Universities.

Call for Evaluation of the program "ICT Project Collaboration with Swedish partner universities"

Lotta Rydström — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:02:04 +0100

Submission of tender deadline: March 5th 2010

Call for Chapter Proposals for next issue of ICT4D Series

Cecilia Strand — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:26:51 +0100

Proposals Submission Deadline: 15 March 2010

SPIDER hosted by the Dept. of Computer and Systems Sciences at Stockholm University from January 1st, 2010

Lotta Rydström — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Due to reorganization at KTH, SPIDER is hosted by the Dept. of Computer and Systems Sciences at Stockholm University (SU) from January 1st 2010. SPIDER will remain as a center at DSV, which until now has been a department of both KTH and SU.

Master's program in ICT for development at Stockholm University 2010

Annelie Östlund — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:11:42 +0100

Stockholm University will run a Master's program in ICT for development during 2010. The programme is intended for students and top-level or mid-level administrators and executives who would like to broaden and deepen their knowledge of ICT, its management and application to the developing world.

Students from outside the EU/EEA should apply no later than January 15th, 2010 and students from the EU/EEA apply no later than April 15th, 2010.

SPIDER, UNCTAD och DSV anordnade seminarium om svensk ICT i utvecklingsländer den 19 november

Annelie Östlund — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:42:53 +0100

Sverige, världsledare inom ICT enligt ny UNCTAD-rapport - men överförs svenskt kunnande till utvecklingsländer?

SPIDER tillsammans med UNCTAD (United Nations Conference for Trade and Development) och Data- och Systemvetenskapliga institutionen (DSV) på Stockholms Universitet/KTH arrangerade den 19 november ett seminarium i Stockholm med titeln "Sverige, världsledare inom ICT enligt ny UNCTAD-rapport - men överförs svenskt kunnande till utvecklingsländer?".

Syftet med seminariet var att öka och bredda kunskapen och kännedomen om ICT och dess användning för att stödja företagande och handel i utvecklingsländer.

UbuntuNet-Connect 2009

Karoline Beronius — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:33:09 +0100

The Research and Education Network of Uganda (RENU) hosted UbuntuNet-Connect 2009 from 12th-13th November 2009 at Hotel Africana in Kampala, Uganda. UbuntuNet-Connect is the premier event in the area of research and education networking in Africa and brings together policy makers, regulators, service providers, researchers, teachers, content providers, and ICT professionals from around the world. Conference proceedings are available from the conference website.

ECEL - the 8th European Conference on e-Learning

Karoline Beronius — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:11:13 +0100

The number of e-Learning conferences has rapidly grown during the last years. One of the established conferences in Europe is the yearly European Conference on e-Learning (ECEL), which in the end of October 2009 was arranged for the 8th time at the University of Bari in Italy. About 100 persons from all over the world where attending the conference that mostly was divided into 5 parallel streams.

SPIDER welcomes our new colleague Cecilia Strand

Daniel Berggren — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:56:55 +0200

SPIDER welcomes a new colleague Cecilia Strand. Cecilia Strand has a Masters degree in media and communication from Lund University, Sweden and a Bachelor degree in Psychology from Stockholm University Sweden.

Open call for evaluation of IPID

Annelie Östlund — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:04:05 +0200

SPIDER is currently seeking a consultant to do an external evaluation of the IPID program. Please consult the ToR for further details.

ICT4MPOWER and SPIDER at IST Africa, May 6-8th

Annelie Östlund — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:50:04 +0200

The SPIDER supported project ICT4MPOWER was presented at the IST AFrica conference in Kampala, Uganda during May 6-8th. Karoline Beronius from SPIDER also presented the Swedish experience on ICT4D cooperation in Africa.

SPIDER welcomes a new staff member

Annelie Östlund — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:20:20 +0200

Magnus Lundsten joined the SPIDER team as ICT4D Advisor on May 4th, 2009.

SPIDER participated at eLearning Africa

Annelie Östlund — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:14:18 +0200

SPIDER participated in the conference eLearning Africa 2009 at the end of May 2009. Projects were presented both at a workshop and during regular sessions.

Junior ICT Experts out on internships

Annelie Östlund — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:11:17 +0200

Four new Junior ICT Experts on internships during the summer 2009.

Presentation of SPIDER at Communication for Development seminar

Annelie Östlund — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:08:47 +0200

SPIDER presented during a seminar in Communication4D at Malmö Högskola.

Malmö Högskola is now a network partner

Annelie Östlund — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:05:41 +0200

Malmö Högskola is SPIDER's newest network partner.

Article in the Independent (Uganda) about ICT4MPOWER project

Annelie Östlund — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 11:45:24 +0200

The Independent (Uganda) writes about eHealth efforts in Uganda and the SPIDER supported ICT4MPOWER project. The project is a collaboration between many stakeholders and funders, some of which are:

In Uganda:

Article in the Guardian (UK) about ICT4MPOWER project

Annelie Östlund — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 11:40:18 +0200

The Guardian (UK) writes about eHealth efforts in Uganda and the SPIDER supported ICT4MPOWER project. The project is a collaboration between many stakeholders and funders, some of which are:

In Uganda:

The Ministry of Health

IPID research workshop and course series

Annelie Östlund — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:59:36 +0200

The International Post Graduate Student Network (IPID), which is supported by SPIDER, arranged a serie of seminars on the topic "Blended technologies for development" this spring in order to introduce students to a variety of different technologies. Each of the three seminars, held at Ericsson and KTH, were attended by around 30 students from various Swedish universities.

A reasearch workshop was also recently held at Örebro University, organized by the PhD. students and IPID coordinators Annika Andersson and Mathias Hatakka.

IPID's 4th Annual Conference

Annelie Östlund — Thu, 14 May 2009 09:50:39 +0200

The SPIDER supported international network for postgraduate students, IPID, will be holding its 4th annual conference on September 11-12, 2009. Read further to find out more about the topics and how to register.

Follow SPIDER on Twitter and LinkedIn

Annelie Östlund — Wed, 13 May 2009 11:02:03 +0200

It is now possible to follow SPIDER on Twitter and to join our group on LinkedIn.