IDIA Workshop
School of Information Technology
Monash South Africa
Johannesburg 30 October 2007
| 8:30 | Register | |||||
| 9:00 | Welcome | Prof Tyrone Pretorius | ||||
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PVC, Monash South Africa | |||||
| 9:10 | Prof Don Schauder | |||||
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Emeritus Professor, Faculty of IT, Monash University | |||||
| 9:30 | Science in Service of Society (PDF 4.78 MB) | Prof Sospeter Muhongo | Regional Director ICSU Regional Office for Africa (ICSU ROA) International Council of Science |
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| 10:10 | Refreshments | |||||
| 10:30 | Dr Jacques Steyn | |||||
| The idea of IDIA (HTML slideshow) |  |
Director: IDIA Head of School of IT, Monash SA |
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| Prof Graeme Johansen | ||||||
| Research project: mobiles for development |  |
Director: Centre for Community Networking Research, Monash University | ||||
| Dr Judy van Biljon | ||||||
| Considering the motivational and cultural factors that influence mobile phone usage variety in South Africa (PDF 0.599 MB) |  |
University of South Africa | ||||
| Kobus Roux | ||||||
| Meraka Institute research in rural development and ICTs (PDF 0.317 MB) |  |
Meraka | ||||
| David Barnard | ||||||
| The State of ICTs in the South African NGO Sector |  |
Sangonet | ||||
| Johann van Rensburg | ||||||
| Infopreneurs: From Technologists to Social Enterprise Developers (PDF 2.155 MB) |
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Meraka | ||||
| Brett Kinsey | ||||||
| Enter strictly mobile business (PDF 0.535 MB) | Senior Manager Partners MTN Business-Products & Solutions MTN |
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| Mobile Sans Frontieres | Ray Dalgarno | |||||
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Keytools Managing Director |
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| Willie de Jongh | ||||||
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Keytools Technical Director |
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| 13:00 | Light Lunch | |||||
| 14:00 | ||||||
| Wallace Chigona | ||||||
| Needs and Gratifications of Mobile Internet- Case of South Africa (PDF 0.348 MB) |  |
Department of Information Systems University of Cape Town |
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| TISI | Wal Taylor | TISI | ||||
| Vuyo Wayi | ||||||
| Bridging the digital divide through community info rmatics initiatives: practices and challenges (PDF 0.082 MB) |  |
Department of Information Systems North West University (Mafikeng campus) |
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| Dr Danie Smit | ||||||
| SAP Research and Technologies for Emerging Economies (PDF 1.255 MB) |  |
SAP Senior Research Scientist |
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| Dr Jay Van Zyl | ||||||
| Intellectual Property Development through Applied Research |
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SystemicLogic Executive Director |
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| Ernest Mnkandla | ||||||
| Notes on CTO Local e-Content Focus Group (SangoNet) |  |
School of IT, Monash South Africa | ||||
| Dr Braam van den Vyver | ||||||
| eDemocracy, eGovernace |  |
School of IT, Monash South Africa | ||||
| 15:15 | Refreshments | |||||
| 15:30 | The way forward – general Discussions / Brainstorm |
Prof Graeme Johanson (Chair) All |
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| Prof Graeme Johanson |
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Summary (PDF 0.076MB) |
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Director: Centre for Community Networking Research, Monash University | ||||
| 17:00 latest* |
Cocktail | |||||
* As soon as discussion naturally come to an end, we will commence with the cocktail. If, by 17:00, discussions have not ceased, we will call it a day.