The Technology & Social Change group (TASCHA) and the Asociación de Telecentros Activos de Chile (ATACH) invite you to attend an online seminar February 27, 2012, on the role of libraries and telecenters in disaster management. At this event, we will introduce an e-learning training module on disaster management and prevention.
Global Impact Study at ICTD 2012
Many of the Global Impact Study research partners will be attending ICTD 2012 in Atlanta in March. In addition to TASCHA staff members, representatives from our survey implementation teams from Bangladesh, Brazil, Chile, Ghana, and the Philippines will attend, as will some of the principal investigators of our in-depth studies. Components of the Global Impact Study will be highlighted in two open sessions and one poster presentation.
February 2: Perceptions of libraries as development partners: preliminary research results
Public libraries play vastly different roles in providing Internet access and information services around the world. TASCHA’s new perceptions of libraries as development partners study aims to understand the opportunities and challenges for libraries to become more prominent actors in ICT and development initiatives.
Crisis informatics project featured in United Nations Economic Commission newsletter
The article — “The role of ICTs in natural disaster management” — discusses the role of ICTs in coordinating reconstruction efforts in the aftermath of emergency situations and natural disasters. After earthquakes struck Haiti in January 2010 and Chile in February 2010, emergency workers used the Internet to help them locate victims, manage an overload of information, and begin rebuilding damaged areas.
Presentation: From a Facebook page to a Social Movement: The role of the April 6th Youth Movement in Egypt’s Revolution (and the Tunisian Effect)
How did information and communication technologies impact the evolution of the April 6th Youth Movement in Egypt and the trajectory of the revolution? And how are they contributing to advancing political freedoms? On December 2, 2011, Maria Garrido presented the research design of the Youth, ICTs, and Democracy in Egypt project at the Community Informatics Research Seminar, organized by the Information School at the University of Michigan.
