> Dear Friends and Colleagues, > > (Apologies for the impersonal and group email, or any duplications) > > Our book, Information and Communications Technology for Sustainable > Development: Defining a Global Research Agenda, is out, and can be found at: > > http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rtongia/ict4sd_book.htm > > This draws, in large part, on the two workshops we held in Washington, DC, > and Bangalore, India, in 2003 and 2004, with support from NSF, United > Nations, the Worldbank, and Indian government agencies/departments. Of > course, the workshops were a success mainly because of the participants and > collaborators, and for that we are grateful. > > Carnegie Mellon University continues to perform interdisciplinary research > into ICT and development, and we are co-organizing the first academic, > peer-reviewed conference on this topic, jointly with UC-Berkeley and > Microsoft Research, India. This will be held in May 2006, at Berkeley, and > more information on ICTD2006 is available at: > > http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/events/ictd2006/ > > We hope these conferences and workshops will help to elevate the discipline > in terms of not only research and development, but also speedy > dissemination to enable human development. > > Sincerely, > > Rahul Tongia > Eswaran Subrahmanain > V. S. Arunachalam > Raj Reddy > N. Balakrishnan > > > forwarded by Bonnie Bracey [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
