Hello all, I am back from the 1st International Conference on "M4D": Mobile communication technology for development in Karlstad Sweden. http://m4d.humanit.org/
There were a lot of good presentations. Some of the presentations focused on specific projects while others (in particular the keynotes) were broader. John Traxler, Jonathan Donner, Katrin Verclas, Richard Heeks, Victor Bahl were some of the people there. My sense is that there were a lot of good mobile (or wireless) focused papers were presented. Jonathan and Katrin gave a nice paper on mobile development projects presented at the MobileActive conference where they developed a taxonomy of the focus of the projects, the technical basis of the project, etc. Richard Heeks also gave a keynote where he talked about the need for development projects that seek to play on the experiences and expertise of the people who are the users of the eventual technology. I was also able to talk with Katrin Verclas from MobileActive (http://mobileactive.org/). It is an interesting group that is much more action focused than the more traditional research community. They are doing a lot of interesting work on the pricing of mobile telephony around the world. Some of this data is available on their site. In addition they are working in the area of mobile communication and the delivery of health in developing countries. Finally, Richard Heeks told about the upcoming ICT4D conference in coming up in April (17 - 19) in Qatar. Bill Gates will be the keynote speaker. The mobile for development field as well as the broader ICT for development field is an exciting group of people that I am just now starting to better understand. Rich L. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mobile-society" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mobile-society?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
