Conference on Development and Information Technologies

Final programme

Papers only available to registered participants

Friday, 23 Oct. 2009

8.30am - 9.00am Registration

9.00am - 9.30am Welcome and Opening Remarks
Room: Auditorium Eduard Aibar (Vice President, Research UOC), David Minoves (Director General for Development Cooperation
and Humanitarian Action), Adela Ros (Research Programme Migration and Network Society)

9.30am - 10.30am Mobile Phones and the Internet in Developing Contexts
Room: Auditorium Reaching the edge: public access computing and mobile phones for development
Keynote speaker: François Bar (University of Southern California)
Chair: M. Fernández-Ardèvol

10.30am - 11.00am Coffee break

11.00am - 12.25pm Session 1: Technologies, Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Room: Auditorium Chair: F. Bar

Mobile-based livelihood services for individuals, small farms and micro & small enterprises in Africa: pilots
and early deployments
J. Donner (Microsoft Research India)
Discussant: R. Barrantes

Upshots of telecommunication sector liberalization: Case of Tunisian service firms
M. Snoussi; H. Sdiri (Institut Supérieur de Gestion de Tunis)
Discussant: J. Donner

Mobile phones as a tool into the household production process – Evidence from Puno – Peru
R. Barrantes (Instituto de Estudios Peruanos)
Discussant: M. Snoussi

12.35am - 2.00pm Session 2: Communication: Access and Strategies
Room: Auditorium Chair: R. Barrantes

Mobile opportunities: Poverty and Mobile Telephony in Mexico
J. Mariscal (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, Mexico)
Discussant: I. Brinkman

Managing the cost of mobile communication in Ghana
A. Sey (University of Washington)
Discussant: J. Mariscal

From 'lands at the end of the earth' to 'lands of progress'? Communication and mobility in south-eastern Angola
I.Brinkman; S. Alessi (African Studies Centre, The Netherlands)
Discussant: A. Sey

2.00pm - 3.30pm Lunch
Campus restaurant

3.30pm - 3.50pm Best practice

Human Award Universal School for the people in Burundi, Africa
J.C. Kamwenubusa (Association pour la Solidarité et l’Assistance Socio-Sanitaire, Burundi)

4.00pm - 5.30pm Session 3: Communication and Development: a Country Level Perspective
Room: Auditorium Chair: J. Donner

Broadband internet access in developing countries: universal service provision and pricing schemes
C. Gutiérrez-Hita; J. Aznar (Universitat Miguel Hernández, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
Discussant: J.F. Fondevila

International Migration, Remittances, and Labor Supply: The Case of the Republic of Haiti
E. Jadotte (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Discussant: C. Gutiérrez-Hita

The role of the broadband in Latin America: towards the gestation of the Latin-American Knowledge Space?
J.F. Fondevila (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Universitat Abat Oliba, Cable Studies Center)
Discussant: E. Jadotte

Saturday, 24 Oct. 2009

9.45am - 10.00am Registration

10.00am - 11.00am Mobiles and the Internet in Migratory Contexts:
Room: Auditorium Connectivity and Social Changes in Migratory Contexts with a focus on the Maghreb
Keynote speaker: Ivan Ureta (University of Lugano, Switzerland)
Chair: A.Ros

11.00am - 11.30am Coffee break

11.30am - 1.30pm Session 4: Migration, Interconnection and New Interdependences
Room: Auditorium Chair: M. de Bruijn

Conflicting Discourses on Aspiration: Voices from Guatemala on Migration and Technology
M. Frix; J. Pal (University of Washington)
Discussant: P. Sow

ICT and co-development among Catalonia and Senegal [Spanish] [French version]
P. Sow (University of Warwick, UK) R.L. Alissoutin (Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis, Senegal)
Discussant: Ana M. González Ramos

The Diaspora of highly skilled ICT workers -contributions to economic development
Ana M. González Ramos; J. Müller; M. Sáinz Ibáñez; C. Castaño Collado (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
Discussant: J. Schapendonk

Moving and mediating: Analysing sub-Saharan African migration with a mobilities lens
J. Schapendonk (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Discussant: M. Frix

1.30pm - 2.30pm Lunch
IN3

2.30pm - 3.55pm Session 5: Communicative Habits, Family and Interpersonal Relationships
Room: Auditorium Chair: I. Ureta

Africa connects: Mobile communication and social change in the margins of African Society
M. de Bruijn (Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands)
Discussant: S. Lamoureaux

Les TIC au Sénégal: entre culture migratoire et positionnement socioculturel et politico-économique
A. Tandian (Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis, Senegal)
Discussant: M. de Bruinj

Poetic text-messaging among university students in Sudan: the broader effects of personal practices
S. Lamoureaux (Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands)
Discussant: A. Tandian

4.05pm - 5.00pm Roundtable
Room: A(-1) Summing up: main issues for coming publication.
Speakers: F. Bar, R. Barrantes, J. Donner, M. de Bruijn, J. Mariscal, A. Tandian, I. Ureta
Chair: M. Fernández-Ardèvol

Practical information:

Languages

Conference languages are English and Catalan. A service of simultaneous interpretation will be available during the Conference.

Keynote speakers: 50 minutes presentation + Q&A (10 minutes)

Speakers: 20 minutes presentation + discussion and Q&A (8 minutes)

Room Equipment

The room is equipped with a screen, an LCD projector and a PC. You can bring either a pen memory or your own laptop.