Posted on behalf of Dorothea Kleine – please respond to her not to me!
Dear All,
we are PhD students interested in the potential the Internet holds for Development (capacity building, social capital, NGO networks, participation, e-governance, e-commerce, e-learning etc.). We realize this topic is very complex and that therefore from whatever angle you look at it, it helps to exchange ideas with colleagues who are looking at the same thing, but from a different perspective.
We would therefore like to initiate an interdisciplinary and intercollegiate working group on “Internet and Development”.
We are inviting graduate students (and possibly more senior researchers) from subjects as diverse as Development Studies, Media and Communications, Geography, Information Technology, Anthropology and Economics etc. from across colleges and universities in the London area to join.
One idea of a format would be to form a wider virtual network while meeting as a working group at the “Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research”:http://www.stanhopecentre.org/ in London every two weeks or monthly. The Centre is located at Marble Arch, just across the street from Hyde Park. There would be office space available and we can also book meeting rooms and a conference room free of charge.
Our first meeting for all that are interested will be held on *Thursday, December 4th* at the Stanhope Drinks Party, which starts at 6:30 p.m. at Stanhope Centre (Stanhope Place, nearest tube: Marble Arch). There we can get to know each other and discuss the format of our network, possible themes for conferences and ideas for research projects.
If you are planning to come, or interested in joining but not able to come that day, please email. We are very much looking forward to hearing from you!
As an academic involved in ICT and Development for the last decade I have some interest to work with your group. Now I am heading a nationl development initiative called e-Society under the e-Sri Lanka Project. E-Sri Lanka is the ICT Develpment Road Map of Sri Lanka
Comment by Dilanthe Withanage — 23 November 2003 @ 10:16 am