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We are looking for a new Director

Sat, 19 Jun 2010 14:05:30 +0200

Föreståndare till Centret Spider

Vid Institutionen för data- och systemvetenskap (DSV), Stockholms universitet. Ref nr SU 618-1658-10.Svar senast 2010-08-23.

SPIDER at the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa

Afzal Sher — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:44:43 +0100

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.

Staff changes

Daniel Berggren — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:01:45 +0100

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 opens website to encourage better information-content training

Lotta Rydström — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:13:40 +0100

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.

Travel scholarship for e-learning Africa in Zambia, May 26-28th 2010

Daniel Berggren — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:39:41 +0100

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.

Call for Evaluation of the program "ICT Project Collaboration with Swedish partner universities"

Lotta Rydström — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:02:04 +0100

Submission of tender deadline: March 5th 2010

Call for Chapter Proposals for next issue of ICT4D Series

Cecilia Strand — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:26:51 +0100

Proposals Submission Deadline: 15 March 2010

SPIDER hosted by the Dept. of Computer and Systems Sciences at Stockholm University from January 1st, 2010

Lotta Rydström — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100

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.

Master's program in ICT for development at Stockholm University 2010

Annelie Östlund — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:11:42 +0100

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.

SPIDER, UNCTAD och DSV anordnade seminarium om svensk ICT i utvecklingsländer den 19 november

Annelie Östlund — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:42:53 +0100

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.