Thanks to everyone who came to Ilda's talk on Thursday! Feel free to get in contact with her at: iladeira at cs.uct.ac.za. Her slides are now available on the Change website at:
http://change.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Ilda_Ladeira_Slides.pdf Thanks! Nell On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Eleanor O'Rourke < eorourke at cs.washington.edu> wrote: > This Thursday at Change we will be hosting a talk by Ilda > Ladeira<http://people.cs.uct.ac.za/~iladeira/> from > the ICT4D Lab <http://www.ict4d.cs.uct.ac.za/> at the University of Cape > Town in South Africa. > > *Ilda Ladeira is a final year PhD student from the ICT4D Lab at the > University of Cape Town run by Prof. Gary > Marsden<http://people.cs.uct.ac.za/~gaz/> and > Prof. Edwin Blake <http://people.cs.uct.ac.za/~edwin/>. She will be giving > a talk describing a number of projects from the ICT4D lab including work in > e-Health, e-Learning, mobile internet, community information, climate > prediction and job seeking technology. She will also talk about her own work > which spans two interest groups at the UCT Computer Science Department: that > of the ICT4D Lab and the Virtual Environments Group (VEG). Her PhD is > primarily concerned with digital storytelling as a means of preserving > narratives of people who lived though South Africa?s Apartheid regime. This > work is being carried out in collaboration with the District Six Museum in > Cape Town. She has used ethnography to understand real-life oral > storytelling in order to inspire the design of virtual storytellers capable > of dynamic and interactive storytelling.* > > Please join us for sandwiches, and to learn more about current research by > the ICT4D Lab at UCT! > > *What:* Ilda Ladeira on Current Research in the ICT4D Lab at the > University of Cape Town > *When:* Thursday, May 26th at noon > *Where:* Paul Allen Center, Room 203 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/private/change/attachments/20110528/4cdc28f4/attachment.html>
