ict as a platform for multilateral cooperation
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ICT as a plaatform for multilateral and bilateral cooperation: opportunities and challenges for SANORD. Presentation that I gave at the SANORD Centre Conference entitled Higher Education, Research and Development: Shifting Chalenges and Opportunities, 5-7 December 2007.TRANSCRIPT
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Prof Derek Keats
Executive DirectorInformation & Communication ServicesThe University of the Western CapeBellville (Cape Town), South [email protected]
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Collaboration 2.0
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ICT as a platform
ICT as the subject of cooperation African Virtual Open
Initiatives and Resources (AVOIR)
ICT as an enabler of cooperation within SANORD Nature of technologies
enabling cooperation Process and people
issues are more important than technology
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Cost
Value
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ICT as a platform
ICT as the subject of cooperation African Virtual Open
Initiatives and Resources (AVOIR)
ICT as an enabler of cooperation within SANORD Nature of technologies
enabling cooperation Process and people
issues are more important than technology
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Red: AVOIR nodesBlue: Collaborating partnersYellow: Supporting partners
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Build human capacity in software engineering through the collaborative development ofFree Software (Open Source)
- Develop and support Free Software Innovation in African higher education institutions- Do so by uniting scarce and dispersed skills towards a common purpose
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Deliver world-class, innovative software and services in the process of building ourcapacity in Africa
- Chisimba framework and applications- Software development in support of other initiatives- E-Learning- Web 2.0 applications
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Create an ecosystem to promote and strengtheninnovation through transactions taking place within the ecosystem
- Application and deployment- Software for special projects- Administrative systems- Links to academic and research activities- Support collaboration
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2005
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Ecosystem
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Examples
Institutions Sponsors Community radio Community newspaper E-Learning in Ethiopia E-Learning in Afghanistan SA-Nordic community Chameleon presentation sharing / HP HIV/Aids project NetTel@Africa
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Ecosystem
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AVOIR Board
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Institutions Sponsors Community radio Community newspaper E-Learning in Ethiopia E-Learning in Afghanistan SA-Nordic community Chameleon presentation sharing / HP HIV/Aids project NetTel@Africa
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AVOIR Board One member from each member institution Representation of partners if required
So far informal Work by consensus Only ever had one physical meeting Work mainly via a board mailing list Trying first VOIP meeting in the next two weeks
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Coding
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Collaborating
Imp
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SMMEtraining
Services
Products
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Newcode
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AVOIR software development process
E-learning
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Stories& news Testing Developer
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Creating shared benefit
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What is CHISIMBA? Chisimba – Chichewa (Malawi) word for the framework used to build a traditional African house
An object-oriented framework for rapid development of distributed software applications
Previous version: KINKY
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What is CHISIMBA?A framework for learning good software engineering principles and practices
Building confidence through collaboration
Contributing on our own terms
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Oh
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Driven by practitioners
as well as looking at trends and
opportunities
The awesomepotential of
student projects
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Red: AVOIR nodesBlue: Collaborating partnersYellow: Supporting partners
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Kabul University lecturer conducting KEWL (ANGEL) training in Kabul
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KEWL.NextGen e-learning and development workshop in Kalibo, Philippines, asinvited by the Philippines Government. In September, Nic Appleby from UWC wenr to Philippines to do set up and training at 6 universities.
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Red: AVOIR nodesBlue: Collaborating partnersYellow: Supporting partners
WashingtonState UniversityCentre to Bridgethe Digital Divide
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AlliancesA network of networks
An alliance can be viewed as a network of networks
Increasing the networks in the
alliance strengthens the alliance and the
underlying networks
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Alliances USAID – Avian Influenza Mapping Businesss
Newspaper, Travel, Labour relations, Startup cafe SANORD
SANORD portal HP/Chameleon Federation Washington State University Sun Microsystems
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How can SANORD benefit from some of the lessons of collaboration in AVOIR and related initiatives?
How can we build synergy with AVOIR and related initiatives so that we create multiple win-win scenarios?
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It is a very common mistaketo focus on technologies
Even IT people often do this
And often when they don't think they are doing so!
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Vis
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Process
Process
Process
Technology
Technology
Technology Lead
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People
People
People
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Thank you View and listen online at
http://slideshare.net/dkeats http://tinyurl.com/2agd6a (blog)
View or give it yourself live online or download in a variety of formats at http://chameleon.uwc.ac.za
AVOIR http://avoir.uwc.ac.za/
License Creative Commons: Attribution-ShareAlike
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