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Posted By: Terri Willard. Rating: 3 / 5. |
Well... given that I'm jealously guarding my last few weekends before being hospitalized, I only ended up going to the Sunday sessions. Others will have to fill in on the Friday night and Saturday activities.
For Sunday, I hit session VII on civil society, since I was presenting on "Financing ICT4D in the Developing World." It was actually a ton of fun to prepare that presentation and to deliver it. I've been following the debates for some time on financing, but there's nothing like standing in front of a room of 40-50 people to so make you solidify your thoughts and put them in order. If anyone wants my PPT presentation, just let me know...
The other speakers in the session were quite good. Stephane Roberge was there from IDRC and Allison Hewlitt from Bellanet was the rapporteur. Stephane had some good comments on scaling up and the failure of the mainstreaming ICT4D approach (i.e. at places like CIDA, where there is now almost no internal competence in the subject). Other good presentations from Memorial University in Newfoundland and from the CAP programme - both reinforcing the long history of community-based initiatives in Canada and their current jeapordy. As of March 2006, there is no government plan or financing for community ICT in Canada.... People are starting to realize that we're losing our cutting edge AND that we can't really go to Tunis promoting these things internationally only to let them die at home.
It will be interesting to see how the virtual team drafting the conference communique over the next two weeks pulls everything together. It's hard to create a "consensus" document on such short notice and with such disparate ideas and focuses.
If anyone wants to listen to any of the plenary sessions, check out <a href="http://www.fis.utoronto.ca/research/iprp/cracin/events/tunis_sched.htm">http://www.fis.utoronto.ca/research/iprp/cracin/events/tunis_sched.htm</a>.
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