ICTs, Climate Change and
Development: Awareness, Action, Agenda
A University of Manchester-APC Joint International Workshop
Funded by Canada's International Development Research Centre
Johannesburg, South Africa
23-24 January 2012
This international workshop was attended by 35 key individuals with strategic responsibilities for either ICTs or climate change in development organisations in the NGO, public and private sector. Its three aims were: to raise awareness among participants of the role ICTs can play vis-à-vis climate change in developing countries; to identify and advocate specific actions that participants' organisations can take to improve the strategic integration between ICTs and climate change within development; and to identify the future ICCD agenda for policy-makers and strategists, for practitioners, and for research.
A nine-page workshop report can be found here, summarising the ideas contributed by participants. Links to presentations, photos and posters can be found below:
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Activity: Day 1 |
Presenter(s) |
Online Resources |
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Workshop Introductions |
- Richard Heeks & Angelica Ospina, Centre for Development Informatics,
University of Manchester, UK - Anriette
Esterhuysen, APC - Edith Odera, IDRC |
Workshop
Participants Photo (118 kB) |
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Overview Concepts for
Understanding ICTs, Climate Change and Development |
Richard Heeks & Angelica Ospina, Centre for Development
Informatics, University of Manchester, UK |
ICTs,
Climate Change and Development: Overview Concepts (PPT, 2.8 MB) |
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ICTs and Climate Change
Mitigation |
Richard Labelle, President,
The Aylmer Group, Canada |
ICTs
for Climate Change Mitigation (PPT, 2.1 MB) |
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ICTs and Climate Change Adaptation |
Angelica Ospina, Centre for Development Informatics, University of
Manchester, UK |
ICTs and
Community-Based Climate Change (PPT, 306 kB) |
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Activity: Day 2 |
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National and International Actions for ICTs, Climate Change and
Development |
Helen Asiamah, Environmental Protection Agency, Ghana |
ITU/Ghana
Experiences in National Planning for ICTs, Climate Change and Development
(PPT, 2.2 MB) |
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Organisation Strategies for ICTs, Climate Change and Development:
Sector Considerations and Policy Contexts |
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Future Agenda Setting |
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Organisational and Network Action Plans |
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Activity: Poster Presentations |
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Poster Presentations |
Helen Asiamah, Environmental Protection
Agency, Ghana |
Ghana: Climate Change and ICTs
(PDF, 226 kB) |
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Rozi Bako et al, Hungarian University of Transylvania, Romania |
ICTs and the Environment: Romania and
Europe (PDF, 232 kB) |
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Zahr Bou-Ghanem,
UN-ESCWA |
UN-ESCWA: ICT for Change
(PPT, 269 kB) |
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Julian Casasbuenas, Colnodo, Colombia |
Sustainable
Development Projects in which Colnodo Participates in Colombia (PNG, 428
kB) |
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Sejla Dizdarevic, Oneworld South-East Europe |
Oneworld
Platform for South-East Europe (PDF, 305 kB) |
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Essam Hassan, Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency |
Climate Change & ICTs in Egypt
(JPEG, 1.5 MB) |
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Faisal Islam, Padma Research and Development Organization, Bangladesh |
ICT-Enabled
Knowledge Brokering for Rural Farmers in Bangladesh (PDF, 364 kB) |
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Hezron Mogaka, ASARECA, Uganda |
Improving Agricultural Water
Productivity under Varying and Changing Climatic Conditions in Eastern and
Central Africa (PPT, 837 kB) |
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Orhan Osmani, ITU |
Acting on Climate Change: The Role
of ITU (PDF, 7.0MB) |
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Gabriela Perona, CEPES, Peru |
ICTs, Agriculture and Climate Change (PNG, 768 kB) |
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Pushkin Phartiyal, Central Himalayan Environment Association, India |
Using Mobile to Improve
Agricultural Incomes / ICT and Community Carbon Forestry (PDF, 2.0 MB) |
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Kimbowa Richard, Uganda Coalition for Sustainable Development |
Using ICTs to Monitor
Implementation of a Regional Transboundary Lake Victoria Project (PDF,
876 kB) |
More photographs from the event are available at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/75655621@N05/
Logistics
Organisational
participants can access details about Workshop
Logistics
The "Climate Change,
Innovation and ICTs" project is coordinated by the University of
Manchester's Centre for Development
Informatics. The project is funded
by Canada's International Development Research
Centre.
http://www.niccd.org/workshop2012.htm February 2012
