Seminar Pogramme

08:30 am

Registration

 

Policies

Chair: Carola Donner-Reichle, Head of Department for Social Development, InWEnt

9:00 am

Opening remarks
Bernd Schleich, Managing Director, InWEnt

 

9:30 am

Donor Perspectives – Policy on ICT

 

Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Hans-Peter Schipulle, Head of Department Global and Sectoral Tasks, BMZ

European Union (EU)

Harry De Backer, ICT Adviser, DG Development, EU

10:15 am

Coffee / tea break

Practices

Facilitator: Tim Unwin, ICT4D Royal Holloway University London

 

10:45 am

E-learning in development practice: what works and what does not?

• What relevance does e-learning have in regard to health or education?
  
• What concepts/approaches and issues exist/are needed?
  
• 3 brief reports (15 mins.)

• Daniel Kakinda, National Coordinator, SchoolNet Uganda
  
• Martina Müller-Narouzi, Projekt Manager, InWEnt and Uwe Wieckenberg, Bildungstransfer, TVET Processes in Egypt
  

• Shaun Lake, Managing Director,  MyGUS E-learning
  
  

Discussion

 

12:00 noon

Lunch break

1:00 pm

Market of possibilities – presentations
(Simultaneous working groups - 3 sessions of 45 minutes each: 15 minute presentations and 30 minutes discussion; each participant participates in three working groups, moving from one to another).

Themes: Health; Basic Education; Employability; Vocational training, Gender

Proposals

1. Medicaments Management : Claudia Kornahrens, InWEnt and Tanja Schwering, InWEnt
   
2. Open Source, IT@ab: Sigfried Karwatzki, InWEnt
   
3. ICT supported approaches for vocational training in development cooperation: Frank Dubert, GTZ
   
4. Employability: Time to get Online, Kim Lowery, Kabissa
   
5. World Economic Forum - Jordan Education Initiative: Michelle Selinger, Cisco
   
6. Proshika Blangladesch, Badruddozza Mia
   
7. eLearning in a development context; lessons learned: Nathan Ducastel, IICD
   
8. eLearning in developing countries: Building bridges from ADP (Africa Drive Project) to PABLO (Paraguay Association for Blended Learning Online): Nina Kissel and Bettina Mussgnug, SAP Research

3:30 pm

Coffee / tea break

4:00 pm

Panel forum and open discussion
From policy to practice: future perspectives on e-learning

Chair: Andreas Stamm, Research associate, DIE

• Frank Dubert, Project Manager, GTZ
  
• Susan D’Antoni, Programme Spezialist, IIEP/Unesco
  
• Bruno Lanvin, Senior Adviser e-government/e-strategy World Bank
  
• Peter H. Hellmonds, Head of division, Siemens AG
  

Discussion

 

5:00-5:30 pm

Workshop introductions for the next morning

 

7:30 pm

Dinner lecture
Technology-enhanced learning and WSIS: UNESCO’s perspectiv
Elisabeth Longworth, Director of the department Informationsociety, UNESCO

Chair:  Jan Grabowski, Head of department E-Learning, Global Campus and
Lifelong Learning, InWEnt

9:00 am

Keynote: Open Source and Free Content
Volker Grassmuck, Media researcher and free writer, Humboldt University
Berlin

Discussant

9:30 am

Four Workshops (including coffee and tea)

Themes to be selected by participants from:

• Software (OS vs proprietary)?
  
• Content and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR): who pays?
  
• Ensuring local relevance?
  
• Infrastructure and blended learning?
  
• Skills and capacity
  
• The role of PPP
  
• The benefits of e-learning over traditional
  
• Mainstreaming e-learning into ICT4D
  
• E-learning cross-cutting into other development initiatives.
  
• Other options from participants

11.30 am

Plenary
Presentations and discussions of group findings

12:00 noon

Closing Remarks
Carola Donner-Reichle, Head of Department for Social Development, InWEnt

12:30

Conference ends

Venue:

InWEnt Bonn
Tulpenfeld Spiegelsaal, Office block 6
53113 Bonn, Germany

 

Conference language: English