Newsletter 26

The SPIDER supported project ICT4MPOWER was presented at the IST AFrica conference in Kampala, Uganda during May 6-8th. Karoline Beronius from SPIDER also presented the Swedish experience on ICT4D cooperation in Africa.

Magnus Lundsten joined the SPIDER team as ICT4D Advisor on May 4th, 2009.

SPIDER participated in the conference eLearning Africa 2009 at the end of May 2009. Projects were presented both at a workshop and during regular sessions.

Four new Junior ICT Experts on internships during the summer 2009.

SPIDER presented during a seminar in Communication4D at Malmö Högskola.

Malmö Högskola is SPIDER's newest network partner.

The International Post Graduate Student Network (IPID), which is supported by SPIDER, arranged a serie of seminars on the topic "Blended technologies for development" this spring in order to introduce students to a variety of different technologies. Each of the three seminars, held at Ericsson and KTH, were attended by around 30 students from various Swedish universities.

A reasearch workshop was also recently held at Örebro University, organized by the PhD. students and IPID coordinators Annika Andersson and Mathias Hatakka.

The SPIDER supported international network for postgraduate students, IPID, will be holding its 4th annual conference on September 11-12, 2009. Read further to find out more about the topics and how to register.

It is now possible to follow SPIDER on Twitter and to join our group on LinkedIn.