Andrés at Joensuu

In this post from the series ICT4D I review a couple of cases/ideas that we have found to be interesting for our case study. First, Howard Rheingold, author of Smart Mobs, gave a talk at TED four years ago. We also review Hole in the Wall, the minimally invasive education proposed by Sugata Mitra.

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Part two of the series on ICT4D, read part 1 for a background
Imagine you have a remote university in an African country where available internet is slow and hard to get to your door. Imagine you want this university to be part of the digital village, where journals can be read online, emails can be sent and received, learning materials can be accessed and modified and, why not, videoconferencing is possible. If you are reading this from somewhere else than in Africa you most likely can do that all. But how to plug an African University in Kenya to the internet. The connectedness should mainly address the communication and teaching activities that will start between University of Joensuu (UoJ) and the University in Kenya (UiK).

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This is the first post of a series of posts for a course I am currently taking: ICT4D. In this posts, together with Vasilis, we are going to create the basis of a case study.

Our case study responds to an actual need from a University in Kenya (UiK) and the University of Joensuu (UoJ). UoJ and UiK want to establish a link between them so expertise is shared, and staff at both sites can learn from each other strengths. The background of the project aims to improve the capacity of UiK to join the global discourse on climate change by training the staff on related issues, so relevant courses can later be taught at UiK.
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