"Emerging eTechnologies" Give your suggestions pls

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Permalink Reply by Niranjan Meegammana on July 26, 2009 at 8:00am

Since everything is centred around 'e' the fifth area can consider
e-agriculture, e-culture, e-business, and e-communities and innovative applications, solutions and case studies. One important aspect would be local language technologies contribution for development of all 'e' things. Extra to discussions it would be ideal if e-asia facilitates exhibition of solutions that are replicable.

Niranjan Meegammana
http://www.shilpasasyura.org

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Permalink Reply by Mathias Walwana on July 28, 2009 at 7:49am

I personally feel that it can be better if the focus is directed to e-education/ learning and also e-health.
I feel they would be better aspects to look at and to design for.
thanks

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Permalink Reply by Dr. Barbara Fedock on July 28, 2009 at 2:32pm

Area that I think would be interesting for the fifth track are the following:

--e-Business
--e-Games
--e-Implications and Innovations for the Future
--e-Cultures and Networking
--e-Brain Research Research on reading strategies for e-reading. The strategies are different from reading fiction or magazines. Brain research would validate many practices for improving e-communications.
I would love to attend the ICT event. How do I find information on the cost, etc?

Barbara Fedock

Barbara

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Permalink Reply by Jan Herder on July 28, 2009 at 8:03pm

Hello Seuwandi, thank you for your prompt. My view on this topic goes in two directions: I have to agree with Niranjan that developing local language content and local content in general is a key use of all of the 'e'lectronic technologies that make up ICT. My observations of ICT4D is that it is primarily supply side driven. Shifting the use of ICT to demand side, or local content creation and knowledge bases (wikis) changes the playing field and creates wealth and value at the grass roots level. This is generally referred to as Web 2.0, and I see very little use of this already emerging technology. Even the foremost web 2.0 applications such as Twitter are still revealing new and unexpected results, and will continue to for years to come.
Secondly, the most disruptive emerging technology, pedagogically, is the immersive internet: namely virtual worlds and augmented reality. I do not see anyone using these technologies for ICT4 Emergent Development.
(ICT4ED)

Regards,
Jan

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Permalink Reply by Seuwandi Yapa on July 28, 2009 at 11:07pm

Thankx a lot to Neranjan, Mathias, Barbara and Jan.

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