Swedish University Project

The project will train a substantial core group of medical information trainers and provide them with mentroship and support while they train about 1000 medical information end-users (doctors and other health professionals in how to access online information resources. The objects are to promote development by encouraging changes in the local information culture, by helping to remove cultural and organizatonal hindrances blocking usage of online medical resources, and by assuring that a substantial number of medical professionals can competently access online information resources for application in research, clinical practice and policy formulation.

There is a need for people all over the world to be able to use their own language when using computers or accessing information on the Internet. Still, today many languages lack access to basic computational linguistic resources (such as lexica, part-of-speech taggers, parsers, corpora or treebanks) that would make it possible to satisfy this need. Instead, this has proven to be a major bottleneck when it comes to promoting the use of computers and the Internet in the language. It is difficult to develop new linguistic resources without access to already existing ones. In this project we investigate how well existing linguistic knowledge can be transferred between languages with a minimum of human involvement and develop tools and techniques that can support such knowledge transfer. We to do this by working with the case of Amharic, the official working language of the Ethiopian government and spoken by approximately 20 million people.

The primary goal for the project is to develop techniques and methods that can be used to efficiently develop computational linguistic resources for new languages. This will also result in specific linguistic tools and corpora being developed for Amharic. A secondary goal is to establish a network of interested parties and institutions that can contribute to a standardised and unified approach to the development and a proper future utilisation of these resources in an open environment.

The objective is to:

• Outline a generic method for benchmarking between Sida-supported developing countries in the development of sustainable broadband communication markets in rural areas
• Refine and extend the KTH strategy for establishment of sustainable broadband communication markets in developing regions, both via theoretical studies and practical development projects

The primary objective of the project is:

• To contribute to economic growth and trade support in developing countries by supporting the formation of business relationships to Sweden , involving migrant competences with the help of sustainable ICT solutions.

Thus, further objectives of the proposed project are:

• To establish a consensus with the data base operators in the project on integration of enterprise and migrant competence and related matching tools.
• To add to ChamberTrade profiles for migrants, who can facilitate establishment of business relationships between Swedish enterprises and companies in their home countries
• To enable and support the use of ChamberTrade and the developed tools for competence modelling and matching by Vietnamese enterprises
• To develop ICT supported business processes for formation of business relationships between enterprises in a developing country and Swedish companies, using ChamberTrade
• Implement and verify workability in these processes in cooperation with Hanoi University.
• To support a research group in Hanoi University of Technology with expertise in using ICT to support economic development in Vietnam that will support domestic enterprises.