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LIRNEasia is organising the pre-conference event, Mobile 2.0: Beyond voice? [20-21 May 2009], for the 2009 Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) [21-25 May 2009]. A call for papers is being issued for the pre-conference event.

Mobile phones are becoming increasingly important in bringing people into the Information Society. It is widely accepted that the inhabitants of the future household will carry mobile devices that will be capable of voice and data communication, information retrieval and forms of entertainment consumption. Mobiles are now (and will increasingly become) payment devices that can also send, process and receive voice, text as well as images; in the next few years they will also be capable of information-retrieval and publishing functions normally associated with the Internet. Through such services and applications, industry experts predict that many in emerging markets will experience the Internet, or ‘elements’ of the Internet for the first time through a mobile phone, rather than a PC; mobile payments, mobile social networking, SMS voting are just a few examples of some of these services and applications.
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Deadline for abstracts: 31 October 2008.

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[13-15 October] Natasha Udu-gama, LIRNEasia’s HazInfo Project Dissemination Manager, will make a presentation at the Workshop Disaster Management and Space Technology - Bridging the Gap. This event is part of the Second International United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response (UN-SPIDER), being held in Bonn, Germany.

Click here to read more about LIRNEasia participation in the workshop.

Click here to download the workshop announcement.

More information about the UN-SPIDER programme.

The Center for Communication, Media and Information Technologies (CMI), of the Copenhagen Institute of Technology (CIT), Aalborg University, Denmark, will host its First International Conference on Converging Mobile Media on 28 November 2008. The conference is organized in cooperation with the Advanced technology network on Mobile Systems, CTiF Copenhagen, and CMI’s CAMMP Project.

William Melody, founder of LIRNE.NET, will deliver the closing comments for the conference (see the full programme in the rest of this entry).

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[28 November 2008] The Center for Communication, Media and Information Technologies (CMI), of the Copenhagen Institute of Technology (CIT), Aalborg University, Denmark, will host its First International Conference on Converging Mobile Media on 28 November 2008. The conference is organized in cooperation with the Advanced technology network on Mobile Systems, CTiF Copenhagen, and CMI’s CAMMP Project.

William Melody, founder of LIRNE.NET, will deliver the closing comments for the conference (see the full programme in the rest of this entry).

Click here for the conference website.

Click here for conference registration

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LIRNEasia’s Executive Director, Rohan Samarajiva, will speak at the Telecoms World South Asia 2008, being held from 7-9 October 2008 at the Radisson Water Garden, in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

On the first day of the conference, Professor Samarajiva as an invited session speaker will present “Introducing broadband: investment conditions, regulatory challenges and addressing QoS.” He will also make a presentation on “Leveraging on next generation technologies to extend the service offering” as a panelist speaker in the afternoon session.

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Chanuka Wattegama, Organizational Development Director of LIRNEasia, will participate in the following two sessions at a World Bank workshop on “Enabling Disaster Risk Management in the Information Age”, 8-9 October, Washington DC.

8 October, 9:30 - 11:10, Session 1: Wattegama will give a presentation for the panel: “Overview of the Role of ICT in Disaster Risk Management: Global Trends and Role of the World Bank“.
9 October, 10:30 - 12:15, Session 4: Wattegama will present in the panel: “The Role of NGO Community in Using ICT for Disaster Risk Management“.

This event is organized by the World Bank e-Development Thematic Group, a global forum and community of professionals interested in the role of ICT in development, which is open for participation by both World Bank staff and external clients and partners.

The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) with the support of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and a number of organizations working on ICT issues in the Latin American region, recently participated in a workshop in Quito, Ecuador to build up a ICT4D Andean Network - APC’s CILAC project Communication for influence in Latin America (CILAC - Andean Region), which seeks to integrate research, research communications, network-building and advocacy for affordable universal broadband.

Among other presentations, Hugo Carrion from Imaginar introduced Situación de las TIC Acceso a infraestructura en la Región Andina.

Click here to download an interview with Julián Casasbuenas, director of Colnodo for the radio program ALER Contacto Sur.

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