Date: 16-17 April 2011 Venue: Millennium Resort Patong Phuket, Thailand About the Conference Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have had a profound impact on the socio-economic, political and cultural spheres of nations. The result is that there is growing interest to incorporate ICTs to achieve key development goals in the domains of health, education, livelihoods, [...]
Date: 3rd – 4th July 2009 Venue: Nanyang Executive Center, Singapore Objectives Desired Outcomes Workshop Programme Downloads Objectives: The SIRCA Workshop 1 aims to: Equip Principal Investigators (PIs) with a clearer understanding of literature and methodological issues with regards to their projects; Equip PIs with a clearer understanding of how their project relates and contributes [...]
Date: 3rd – 4th March 2010 Venue: Cincinnati, Ohio Made possible by the National Science Foundation (grant number SES-0848097), Indiana University’s Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions and the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics. This two-day workshop will convene an international meeting of experts in PAIT, ethicists well versed in [...]
“Innovations in Mobile Use” (21-22 Jun 2010, Singapore) With usership crossing the four billion mark, mobile communication increasingly incorporates broad aspects of contemporary human life, potentially impacting not just the work and play of advanced users in developed markets, but also the daily lives of those in the developing world. At one end of the [...]
Program Day 1 (21st June 2010) 0900-0930 Registration (Tea and snacks will be provided). 0930-0940 Welcome address by Arul Chib (Assistant Director, SiRC). 0940-1010 Keynote address by Alex Siow (Head, IS & Business Excellence, Starhub). 1010-1140 Mobile & social groups in Asia: Richard Ling, Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark & Sociologist, Telenor [...]