| Title |
Organizers |
Duration |
Abstract
Description |
Participants |
| Visualization,
Spatiality, and I |
0.1.1
Natalie Jeremijenko, Yale U. and NYU
0.1.2 Aditya Dev Sood, CKS
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Full
Day |
Geographical
Positioning Systems, Geographical Information Systems, and Remote-Sensed
Imagery represent new technologies that afford us new ways of comprehending
and manipulating the landscape. This workshops seeks first to introduce
participants to an understanding of, as well as use and manipulation of
these technologies. Next, we encourage participants to ask what is represented,
how it visualized and how these choices inform decision making at micro
and macro scales. In a brief charette participants will use handheld GPS-enabled
devices to map their own context, learning in the process how their own
bodies and immediate interactional space are hypermediated through their
use of the GPS. Brief presentations by the organizers, as well as by T.
Pradeep (Samuha.Org; to be confirmed) and R. Gupta (CSDMS; to be confirmed)
will provide critical, theoretical, developmental, and practical grounding
and perspective to participant experimentation.
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Participants should be interested in questions of space and spatiality and
their visual representation, interpretation and analysis; the hypermediation
of the interactional space of the body; emerging technologies and its application
in rural areas; and the use of GIS, GPs and Remote Sensing as tools for
rural intervention. No prior experience or knowledge of these technologies
is assumed or necessary. |
| The
Role of Interactive Hybrid Broadcasting in Community Learning and Innovation |
David
Wortley
of Mass Mitec |
half-day |
Interactive
hybrid broadcasting such as The Radio with Pictures Show concept combines
local radio with web conferencing to create a rich interactive experience
and a set of tools to stimulate innovation, collaboration and community
learning.
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This
workshop is designed to give participants practical experience of interactive
hybrid broadcasting and to stimulate debate on the potential of this concept
for both bridging the digital divide and stimulating community learning
and innovation. A
potential output of the workshop would be a statement of ideas, challenges
and strategies for implementing interactive hybrid broadcasting in a community
setting.
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| Alternative
Design of Battery Lanterns |
Surya Rao Maturu
B.Tech (I.I.T. Kanpur 1972), P.G.D.M., and M.B.A. (I.I.M. Bangalore1979),
|
half-day |
1.
To share the 4 + year experiences of one person's efforts in Alternative
& Appropriate Design Solutions for a Better Battery Lantern for the
poor.
2. To establish cross-linkages with individuals & institutions &
NGOs working in this area, for greater synergy; to exchange freely know-how
relating to appropriate solutions; to implementing these better alternatives;
to give feedback to governments in India, & elsewhere; to work towards
compiling a reference handbook : "On Low-cost Alternative Lighting"
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Target
Participants : You may be working in this area in an NGO, or in a Government
organisation or even in a corporate unit. Open to both techical and non-technical
background people; who are dissatisfied with current high-cost, subsidised
"Solar Lanterns". |
| Platforms
& Interfaces for Collaborative Design through user interaction beyond
cultural and physical boundaries |
Umakant
Soni
IcubelLabs initiative
and
Kinjal Popat
|
full-day |
Objectives
of the workshop
1. Exploration of Issues in Collaborative design for different users and
Evaluation of currently available platforms and interfaces for collaboration.
2. Interactions in form of feedbacks from collaborators.
3. Leveraging the World wide web for interactions
4. Exploration of mechanism of bridging the chasm/differences that are cultural
in nature and their effect on collaboration.
5. Leveraging group learning as an incentive for collaborators and other
mechanisms to drive collaboration.
6. Knowledge need assessment of the user.
7. Difference in interface for a old hand user and the novice user.
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The
participant can be
· Interface designer in the field of collaboration, NGO etc.
· Project Co-ordinators of projects related to IT for rural.
· Active collaborators who have past experience of collaboration
of design project across such boundaries and would be interested in using
such interfaces.
· Future collaborators( students).
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| Knowledge
City: Digital media for a democratic society |
Gilson
Schwartz, PhD, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of São Paulo,
Academic Director, Knowledge City |
half-day |
The
purpose of this workshop is to present and discuss the outcomes, challenges
and perspectives of the Knowledge City, a project at the University of São
Paulo's Institute of Advanced Studies which is part of the Global Design
Studio. Four themes will be on the agenda: Networking Schools and Universities,
Digital Media Management for Underserved Communities, ITCs for Employment
and Marketing Technological Networks ("mobile clusters"). Fellows
involved with distance education, knowledge management, public and community
informatics, technological and industrial policies can benefit and contribute
to this workshop.
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The
project's similarities and differences with respect to the Global Design
Studio approach will be examined along with an open discussion of its challenges,
solutions and perspectives. People involved with distance education, knowledge
management, public and community informatics, technological and industrial
policies can benefit and contribute to this workshop. |
| Designing
a Multipurpose Rural Transporter (MRT) |
Mr
R. Moalosi
Samuel M. Khumomotse University of Botswana
Faculty of Engineering & Technology
Mr M. K. M'Rithaa
|
half-day |
In
this workshop you will design a Multipurpose Rural Transporter (MRT). It
will be a hands-on session as the results would aid in designing the MRT,
which would be suitable for use in Botswana's peri-urban and rural context.
Experiences would be drawn from other
continents that also use animal drawn power.
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The
preferred participants
for this session would be Industrial Designers, Product Designers, as
well as people involved in Sustainable Design, Sustainable Management,
and Sustainable Development.
A group size of 12 would be ideal.
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| Computers
in Lower Primary Classes on a Mass Scale |
Dr.
Pankaj Jain |
half-day |
The
workshop would explore the potential utility of computer-use in raising
learning levels in lower primary classes in the mass primary system, and
identify the mechanisms/ policies required to make such a use technically
and organizationally feasible at a socially acceptable unit cost.
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Anybody
wanting to make a short presentation on any of the sub-theme would need
to submit a two-page position paper/ summary in advance. Only those who
would support their views based on actual classroom or field experiences
would be encouraged to submit the papers. |
Creative
Exploration: Celebrate, Communicate, Create and Imagine
with Traditional Indian Toys
|
Brij
Kul Deepak
Tarun Goel
|
full-day |
Join
us for this rare opportunity to build crazy cobras, wiggling snakes, dancing
birds, butterflies, nodding horses, and other
eco-friendly, traditional Indian Indian toys with Brij Kul Deepak. Some
of the prototypes go back 5,000 years to the Indus Valley Civilization.
Traditional Indian Toys provide youngsters with a multi-level experience
incorporating education, environmental activities, and cultural
elements. Making and using traditional playthings, which are inexpensive,
warm in feeling and designed with scientific principles in mind, encourage
children to exercise creativity, express emotions, and develop new skills.
Deepak will offer a full-day workshop on Creative Exploration through
eco-friendly materials. The workshop will cover a range of hands-on activities
from making delightful working toys out of simple materials to teaching
participants a traditional Indian game and showing them how to make attractive
jewelery from ordinary everyday materials such as beans and rolls of card.
It will bring participants close to mother nature, culture and tradition,
causing a major impact on their design skills and self-confidence.
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This
workshop will be particularly suited for people in the art and design fields
as well as people working for children's organizations, and organizations
involved in rural education and people wanting to impart nature, animal
and environment related education.
Prospective participants may get more ideas about Deepak's work by checking
http://www.ets.uidaho.edu
/ngier/deepak/home.htm
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| Higher
Education, Lower Migration? |
Hari
Nair |
full-day |
The
goal of the workshop is to form a working group with the specific agenda
of bringing higher education to the villages. The task will be to formulate
technological and pedagogic strategies to help deliver higher education
curriculum to the villages.
We will explore
educational models and technologies that would foster the quality of life
improvement in the local community We will emphasize stakeholder analysis
(i.e., have people discuss their priorities, organize themselves around
things that are relevant to them, get in touch with the people, techniques
and tools required, etc.) An approach similar to the TeNet group, to form
an academic unit or company, which delivers education to the villages
(perhaps only serving the rural communities to minimize commercial over-reach)
will be explored
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Meant
for people working on Rural education, in the of field planning and infrastructural
management. |
Appropriate
Household Treatment Technologies to Address the
International Drinking Water Crisis
|
-Heather
Lukacs
-Susan Murcott
|
half-day |
This
workshop addresses the immediate, pressing need for appropriate drinking
water treatment for rural populations in developing countries.
With 1.7 billion or 28% of the world's people lacking access to safe drinking
water, the demand for technically sound, economically
sustainable, and socio-culturally acceptable treatment solutions is staggeringly
huge. Preventable waterborne disease from contaminated drinking water
results in around 2.2 million deaths every year (World Health Organization,
2002).
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From
this 3-hour workshop, participants will gain an understanding of existing
point-of-use treatment technologies including both the
important niche that they fill in providing access to clean water today
and the challenges facing implementers of such technologies.
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