Workshop at ITU

Last Friday Thomas and I had a good intense meeting with Sudhanshu discussing the literature we will use to support our framework. We will meet with Sudhanshu again Thursday and Friday to finish up the sharp edges in sync with our framing, context and discourse of our research. More about that later on.

This Friday we will also join Sudhanshu in presenting his next course on cand. merc. dat. this spring, "IT Innovation in Emerging markets; Challenges for Development". The course has a lot of similarities to the course Thomas and I had with Sudhanshu last fall but it has been changed from a 7,5 to a 15 ETCS course and thereby obviously expanded. We will mostly elaborate on what we learned from the previous course and why we find the topics covered interesting. Our master thesis topic is of course a direct consequence of what we learned and experienced so we can only recommend this course in order to learn something completely different about ICT that most courses on cand. merc. dat. doesn't offer. It is ICT framed in a different context discussed through various discourses.

Furthermore we have been invited to participate in a workshop this Monday on ITU. Two graduate students from ITU are working on a project regarding porting and re-designing a Computer Based Functional Literacy (CBFL) program towards mobile technology. It is going to be very interesting since we frame our master thesis differently. We are trying to circumvent the necessity of becoming functional literate in order for ICT4D to succeed. This doesn't mean though that we think that initiatives such as (CBFL) programs are superfluous. Hopefully there is a potential for both concepts to coexist and thereby complement each other for development through ICT.