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, practitioners, and research.
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A nine-page summary report from the workshop can be found here. Links to presentations, photos and posters are listed below.
| Activity: Day 1 | Presenter(s) | |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| ICTs and Climate Change Mitigation | Richard Labelle, President, The Aylmer Group, Canada | ICTs for Climate Change Mitigation (PPT, 2.1 MB) |
| ICTs and Climate Change Adaptation | Angelica Ospina, Centre for Development Informatics, University of Manchester, UK | ICTs and Community-Based Climate Change (PPT, 306 kB) |
| Activity: Day 2 | ||
| National and International Actions for ICTs, Climate Change and Development | ITU/Ghana Experiences in National Planning for ICTs, Climate Change and Development (PPT, 2.2 MB) | |
| Organisation Strategies for ICTs, Climate Change and Development: Sector Considerations and Policy Contexts | ||
| Future Agenda Setting | ||
| Organisational and Network Action Plans | ||
| Activity: Poster Presentations | ||
| Helen Asiamah, Environmental Protection Agency, Ghana | Ghana: Climate Change and ICTs (PDF, 226 kB) | |
| Rozi Bako et al, Hungarian University of Transylvania, Romania | ICTs and the Environment: Romania and Europe (PDF, 232 kB) | |
| Zahr Bou-Ghanem, UN-ESCWA | UN-ESCWA: ICT for Change (PPT, 269 kB) | |
| Julian Casasbuenas, Colnodo, Colombia | Sustainable Development Projects in which Colnodo Participates in Colombia (PNG, 428 kB) | |
| Sejla Dizdarevic, Oneworld South-East Europe | Oneworld Platform for South-East Europe (PDF, 305 kB) | |
| Essam Hassan, Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency | Climate Change & ICTs in Egypt (JPEG, 1.5 MB) | |
| Faisal Islam, Padma Research and Development Organization, Bangladesh | ICT-Enabled Knowledge Brokering for Rural Farmers in Bangladesh (PDF, 364 kB) | |
| Cedric Knight, GreenNet, UK | Climate Change and ICTs: Some ICT Perspectives from the UK (PDF, 208 kB) | |
| Hezron Mogaka, ASARECA, Uganda | Improving Agricultural Water Productivity under Varying and Changing Climatic Conditions in Eastern and Central Africa (PPT, 837 kB) | |
| Orhan Osmani, ITU | Acting on Climate Change: The Role of ITU (PDF, 7.0MB) | |
| Gabriela Perona, CEPES, Peru | ICTs, Agriculture and Climate Change (PNG, 768 kB) | |
| Pushkin Phartiyal, Central Himalayan Environment Association, India | Using Mobile to Improve Agricultural Incomes / ICT and Community Carbon Forestry (PDF, 2.0 MB) | |
| Kimbowa Richard, Uganda Coalition for Sustainable Development | Using ICTs to Monitor Implementation of a Regional Transboundary Lake Victoria Project (PDF, 876 kB) |
Photos
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Logistics
Organisational participants can access details of workshop logistics.