[Linuxtrent] Seminar Reminder: The Digital Divides or the third industrial revolution: concepts and figures
- From: Emanuele Olivetti <olivetti@xxxxxx>
- To: LinuxTrent <linuxtrent@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 14:08:45 +0200
Ciao,
vi segnalo il seminario di Ismael Peña López sul digital divide.
Si svolgera' presso la facolta' di scienze, domani alle 14:00.
Il seminario precede un corso su ICT e sviluppo sostenibile che si
terra' a luglio:
http://dit.unitn.it/edu/ict/courseinfo.xml?courseid=21404&year=2006
Accorrete numerosi! :)
Emanuele
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Subject: [DIT Seminar] Seminar Reminder: The Digital Divides or the
third industrial revolution: concepts and figures
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Department of Information and Communication Technology - University of Trento
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Seminar Announcement
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Part of: DIT seminar series
TITLE: The Digital Divides or the third industrial revolution:
concepts and figures
SPEAKER: Ismael Peña López
DATE: May 25, 2006 at 2:00:00 PM
LOCATION: Room 20 - Faculty of Science - Povo
ABSTRACT:
It is usual to think about the digital divide as a very concrete
aspect of the impact of ICTs, mainly concerning whether there is an
existence of infrastructures (sometimes computers, sometimes computers
connected to the Internet).
It is usual to think about digital literacy as the ability of someone
to switch on a computer and playing some cards game, sending an e-mail
and, optimistically, run some word processor and type in a love
letter.
It is usual to think about ICTs as something that won't make disappear
the hunger in the world or heal the thousands of people suffering from
countless diseases, specially in places where citizens live with less
than one dollar a day.
It is usual to think about the digital divide as something that does
not affect me, as I live on the sunny side of the world, in a
developed country that will last this way for centuries.
With the aim to dismantle all these (almost) false assumptions, the
seminar will try and give "correct" definitions for concepts such as
Digital Divide, Digital Literacy, eReadiness or eAwareness and show
examples on how ICTs can help underdeveloped and developing countries
to reach higher quotas of welfare... and how so-called developed
countries can exchange places with the lesser developed ones in case
they do not pay attention to what is happening in a global world.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Ismael Peña is lecturer of Public Policies for Development at the
Faculty of Law and Politics at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC),
Spain. His research interests are Information and Communication
Technologies for Development (ICT4D), or the ways ICTs are impacting,
specially, underdeveloped and developing countries. Thus, he focus in
aspects such as the digital divide, the digital literacy, e-services
and digital content or the new legal frameworks brough by the
existence of ICTs. He was the founder and former Director of
Cooperation for Development at UOC, where he set up an e-learning for
development programme to help nonprofits in their capacitation with
the help of online volunteers. He maintains ICTlogy.net, a personal
portal (blog, wiki, bibliography, learning resources) dedicated to
ICT4D.
NOTE:
CONTACT: Arianna Tibuzzi
WEB: http://dit.unitn.it/research/seminari
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