Newsletter 27

The 14th Ordinary Summit of the African Union was held in Addis Ababa from 31st January to 02 feb 2010 at the UNCC-ECA permises. More than 1000 participants from 53 African participated in the Summit. Many countries were represented by the heads of their respective governments.

Our director Dr. Afzal Sher has decided to return to Sida after 5 years as director of SPIDER. At Sida he will continue to champion ICT4D in development cooperation.

Karoline Beronius is also moving on to new challenges. As of March 8 she will be working at KTH with the new EIT ICT Labs.

SPIDER is offering 6 travel scholarships á 25 000 SEK. Priority is given to Swedish researchers presenting at E-learning Africa, but is secondly available for all Swedish researchers focusing on e-learning who belong to one of the 16 SPIDER affiliated Universities.