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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.

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 (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.

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.

Submission of tender deadline: March 5th 2010

 Proposals Submission Deadline: 15 March 2010 

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.

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.

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.

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.