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RUNNING PROJECTS
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Zanzicode
In charge: Florian Sturm
Status: In Progress
We provide free education in the field of Web Development to a small number of talented and motivated students of poor background in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Our goal is to help build the personal careers of our graduates as well as to kickstart a local web development community. After getting to know the place and the people during a support project for the Zanzibits School for Film and Multimedia in 2009, we firmly believe that there is both talent and demand for professional web work in Zanzibar.
Hello Africa
In charge: Anders Bolin
Status: In Progress
A movie about Africa. A movie about African people connecting to the mobile world with their cell phones. A movie that sets out to investigate the influence of mobile communication technologies driven by developed countries on daily life in Africa. The movie portrays people in rural areas of East Africa. The stories are filmed in Tanzania, Zambia and South Africa. The images give insights about usage, marketing, sales, and habits regarding mobile communication technologies. This documentary work represents an important step to push the ICT4D (information and communication technologies for development) movement. It should document how a technology has the potential to help people bridge the digital divide. We are partnering with the Swedish film magazine UZI. We have completed the shooting of the raw material and are moving into post production now, having entered the beginning stages of marketing. We publish a weekly video podcast.
Media Work
In charge: Florian Sturm
Status: In Progress
We provide regular news and relevant information of developments in ICT4D research as well as our projects on the weblog http://ict4d.at/blog and update our social network via Facebook, XING, Twitter, linkedin, youtube, delicious, digg, Flickr. We give background information on ICT4D, introduce major players and scholars in this area and provide analysis of influential scientific papers. In order to build up a knowledge base, we publish this information on our weblog http://ict4d.at/blog and in our wiki http://wiki.ict4d.at/. We also provide a series of lectures on different aspects on ICT4D with renowned scholars in the ICT4D area for the interested public in Austria. We inform about relevant dates, deliver live updates from around-the-world conferences on ICT4D topics, and provide interviews with international experts in the ICT4D field.
Images FOR Africa Flickr Group
In charge: Martin Konzett
Status: In Progress
Images FOR Africa (IFA) collects pictures gathered from the field in Africa from Flickr users organized as a flickr group. We currently have 430 members and 6700 pictures. The owners are willing to license the pictures under the terms of a Creative Commons license, which means that the pictures can be utilized further. We moderate the group and invite pictures to join. We thank Yahoo for providing Flickr.
Support in Social Media Presence - eDevelopment Thematic Group
In charge: Florian Sturm
Status: In Progress
ICT4D.at supports the eDevelopment Group of the World Bank in maintaining their social media presence - aiming at creating a wider outreach and an elevated interest in their events and fostering discussions and sharing of experiences of interested people on the online platforms.
The support includes dissemination of content in social media platforms, using the network of ICT4D.at to raise interest in e-TG events and covering of events on the ICT4D.at blog.
businessForge (organisation handbook)
In charge: Paul Pöltner
Status: In Progress
We would like to share what we have built up here at ICT4D.at by providing a solid handbook on how to run a business with a business plan/structure similar to ours, providing tools on how to easily start up an entrepreneurial idea. We provide solid business processes and how-to's for all the software tools involved. Information on how to manage structural organization and process organization within all the social media integration will be available. With the use of our WordPressMediaWiki integration and theming, plus Google tools and all the other platforms, it is possible to be up and running within 2 weeks. There is also a business plan template included.
Theses and Papers
In charge: Martin Tomitsch
Status: In Progress
We are currently searching for students who are interested in writing a thesis on certain topics related to our field. "Theses and Papers" is a means of sharing and contributing knowledge and ideas.
We offer scholarship awards.
PLANNED PROJECTS
True Austria
In charge: Florian Sturm
Status: Planning phase
On the website http://www.trueaustria.com I would like to gather information in various languages on Austrian migration law, statistics and stories on the situation of immigrants living in Vienna, media coverage on immigrants and voices of immigrants themselves.
What I would like to show is the (often quite tough) situation of people coming here to Austria in the hope of a bettering of their situation as compared to their original countries.
