Dear Colleagues, To add to this note from Kate on the growing momentum towards African education and research networking, you may be interested to know that the U.S. National Science Foundation has funded an international workshop to be held in Spring 2006 in Nairobi. The goal of this workshop is to set a research agenda on the development and use of information and communication systems in international emergency response efforts. Current partners include the University of Washington's Interdisciplinary Program on Humanitarian Relief, Moi University's Faculty of Information Sciences, the East Africa and Great Lakes Region Inter-Agency Emergency Preparedness & Response Working Group (IAG), the USAID, the Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the University of Southern California's Keston Institute for Infrastructure. The workshop is funded under NSF's U.S.-East Africa Cooperative Research Program.
Feel free to contact me for more information. Cheers, Mark ********************************************************************** Mark P. Haselkorn, Professor & Founding Chair Department of Technical Communication, Box 352195 Director of Research, Interdisciplinary Program on Humanitarian Relief http://depts.washington.edu/iphr Research Scientist, Veterans Health Administration University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 (206) 543-2577 On Tues, October 4, 2005, Kate Wild <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The attached note demonstrates a growing momentum towards African > education and research networking which will be given further impetus at > the WSIS session in Tunis. > > ********************************************************* > > Building Momentum for African Research and Education Networking > > The next two months will see unprecedented global attention focused on > the prospects of African education, research and outreach communities > for networking among themselves and linking with global communities. ..snip... ------------ ***GKD is solely supported by EDC, a Non-Profit Organization*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: <http://www.edc.org/GLG/gkd/>
