Workshop on Research in Information and Communication Technologies and African Development
The "ICT4 Development in Africa" workshop is designed for individuals seeking to identify grant and research opportunities.

Date: Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Venue: Union Room 191
Time: 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM

Sponsored by: UWM School of Information Studies, UWM Graduate School, and School of Information Technology/University of Pretoria, South Africa
Supported by: UWM Center for International Education

The workshop was organized and initiated by the School of Information Studies and the School of Information Technology (University of Pretoria, South Africa) in close collaboration with Dr. Abbas Ourmazd, UWM’s Vice Chancellor for Research and Dean of the Graduate School. Dr. Ourmazd will officially open the workshop and faculty members from the University of Pretoria’s School of Information Technology will participate.

Funding Information:
Foundations and donors that fund research on the African continent are invited to either send a representative to attend the workshop or to provide us with information about their funding policies regarding ICT and development in Africa. The following institutions have been approached:

NSF (Africa desk)
NRF (South African National Research Foundation)
IDRC (International Development Research Center, based in Canada)
NIH (Sub-Saharan African desk)
World Bank (Africa Desk)
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

All of these institutions have provided funding information and some indicated that they will send a representative to participate at the workshop. The Gates foundation has agreed to participate via teleconference. Steve Atkinson of the Graduate School will also provide a brief on other funding possibilities.

Featured Participant:

Dr. Steve Cohen, Boston-based expert on technology-enhanced pedagogy, distance education and Africa, and digital libraries

Scope:
The "ICT and development in Africa" research field includes, among other areas:

Health informatics and development in Africa
Legal issues (for example intellectual property rights, WIPO, etc.)
Issues concerning indigenous knowledge, including its protection and promotion – for example digital capturing and archiving
Archiving of African websites
E-governance, E-health care
Ethical and security issues (spamming, privacy of patients, surveillance, global security)
Distance education learning/education (e.g. nurses, teachers)
Effective use of leapfrogging technologies (e.g. cell phone technologies and their application in healthcare)

Objective:
The aim of the day is to promote interdisciplinary and international research on campus with a particular focus on Africa and can be summarized as follows:

Bring together all researchers on campus who has an interest in the role that ICT plays in the development of Africa
Identy creative, relevant and fundable research topics
Explore research opportunities with scholars in Africa (UWM has for example an official agreement with the University of Pretoria)
Identify funding opportunities for research on ICT and development in Africa.

Structure:
The workshop will be structured as follows:

Official opening by Dr. Abbas Ourmazd, the vice chancellor for research
Short overview of the importance of research on the role of ICT in Development in Africa
Introduction of possible research topics
Possible funding opportunities – introduced by the different funding institutions
Break away groups to identify creative, relevant and fundable research opportunities.

For more detailed information about the Winterim programs and other study abroad opportunities, interested students should visit the Overseas Programs and Partnerships office in Pearse Hall 166.

The program will feature best practices in a wide variety of curricular and program areas, including:

Human rights is a perennial focus for peace and conflict studies, and such key concepts benefit from continual reexamination in, through, and across different professions, fields of service, and academic disciplines. This conference invites participation from interested parties of any background to join in our planned critical reflection on how human rights can and ought to be pursued in the foreseeable future.

Register online at http://www.iwa.uwm.edu or by phone at 414-229-3220. Pre-registration required for Luncheon Discussion Groups. On-site registration is available at all evening programs.

For more information, please e-mail Dr. Russell Brooker, Social Science Department, Alverno College, at Russell.Brooker@alverno.edu.

Alverno is only about 20 minutes from UWM and has "massive amounts of free parking."

Conference Overview
ISSE 05 provides a virtual forum for presentation and discussion of the state-of the-art research on computers, information and systems sciences and engineering. The virtual conference will be conducted through the Internet using web-conferencing tools, made available by the conference. Authors will be presenting their PowerPoint, audio or video presentations using web-conferencing tools without the need for travel. Conference sessions will be broadcast to all the conference participants, where session participants can interact with the presenter during the presentation and (or) during the Q&A slot that follows the presentation.

This international conference will be held entirely on-line. The accepted and presented papers will be made available after the conference both on a CD and as a book publication.

Conference participants - authors, presenters and attendees - only need an internet connection and sound available on their computers in order to be able to contribute and participate in this international ground-breaking conference.

The on-line structure of this high-quality event will allow academic professionals and industry participants to contribute work and attend world-class technical presentations based on rigorously refereed submissions, live, without the need for investing significant travel funds or time out of the office.

Potential non-author conference attendees who cannot make the on-line conference dates are encouraged to register, as the entire joint conferences will be archived for future viewing.

Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers electronically in Microsoft Word or PDF format through the website of each conference at http://www.cisse2005.org Accepted papers must be presented in the virtual conference by one of the authors.

The MPSA is a national organization with a membership of over three thousand political science professors, students, and public administrators. Founded in 1939, the MPSA is dedicated to the advancement of scholarship in all areas of political science.

In 2006, the MPSA Annual National Conference will be held from Thursday, April 10th to Sunday, April 23rd. The MPSA Conference is held in Chicago, in the historic Palmer House Hotel, and should have more than 3,000 presenters from across the United States and around the world as well as over 700 sessions.

The deadline to submit proposals for the 2006 conference is today, October 10, 2005. The presentations are organized by topic in about four dozen sections; each is managed by a section head that makes the decision about which papers are accepted and in what capacity. Decisions about acceptance are made by November 7th. If you do not hear from the section head by that date, you are encouraged to contact them.

The MPSA also publishes the American Journal of Political Science, a premier journal for research in all major areas of political science.

Please send essays on this theme by October 15, 2005. Essays should run between 2500 and 3500 words, and should be jargon- and footnote-free. See Submission Guidelines at http://www.usfca.edu/peacereview/PRHome.html.

Send essays to:
Robert Elias (Editor) or Kerry Donoghue (Managing Editor) Peace Review University of San Francisco 2130 Fulton Street San Francisco, CA 94117-1080 USA.

Thirteenth International Literacy Conference on Learning
Montego Bay, Jamaica, June 22-25, 2005
http://www.LearningConference.com

The conference will address a range of critically important themes relating to education today. Main speakers will include some of the world's leading thinkers and in the field of education, as well as numerous paper, colloquium and workshop presentations by researchers and teachers. This is a conference for any person with an interest in, and concern for, education at any of its levels and in any of its forms, from early childhood, to schools, to higher education and lifelong learning - and in any of its sites, from home to school to university to workplace.

Presenters may choose to submit written papers for publication before or after the conference in the fully refereed International Journal of Learning. If you are unable to attend the conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication in the journal, as well as access to the electronic version of the conference proceedings. The next round call for papers closes on October 31, 2005.

Full details of the conference, including an online call for papers form, are to be found at the conference website.

Following the success of the inaugural International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society held at the University of California Berkeley, USA, we are pleased to announce the second conference, to be held in one of the emerging IT centres of the world, Hyderabad.

The conference will take a broad and cross-disciplinary approach to technology in society. With a particular focus on digital information and communications technologies, the conference will address: human usability, technologies for citizenship and community participation, and learning technologies. Participants will include researchers, teachers and practitioners whose interests are either technical or humanistic, or whose work crosses over between the applied technological and social sciences.

The conference features an impressive line up of international main speakers, including Mr. S. Gopalakrishnan, COO, Co-founder and Member of Board, Infosys Technologies Ltd, and Genevieve Bell, Senior Researcher, Intel Research. The conference will also include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations.

We would particularly like to invite you to respond to the conference call for papers. The conference will also include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations. Papers submitted by participants will be fully peer-refereed and published in print and electronic formats in the International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society. If you are unable to attend the conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication in this fully refereed academic journal, as well as access to the electronic version of the conference proceedings. Proposals are reviewed within four weeks of submission.

Full details of the conference, including an online call for papers form, are to be found at the conference website: http://www.Technology-Conference.com.

Sponsored by:
East West Council for Education
Asia-Pacific Research Institute of Peking University
University of Louisville - Center for Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods

The 5th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences will be held from May 31 (Wednesday) to June 3 (Saturday), 2006 at the Waikiki Beach Marriott Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii. The conference will provide many opportunities for academicians and professionals from social science related fields to interact with members inside and outside their own particular disciplines.

For further information, write, call or e-mail the AGS Library, P.O. Box 399, Milwaukee, WI 53201-0399, Tel. (414) 229-6282, E-mail agsl@uwm.edu.

Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
http://www.eclac.org/default.asp?idioma=IN

Established in 1948, the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA) is part of the United Nations’ broader initiative to foster coordinated economic development schemes and relationships among Latin American nations. Their web presence is quite formidable, and for persons interested in these types of policy endeavors, this site warrants several visits. First-time visitors can get an accurate sense of ECLA’s overall mission by reading the headlines on the homepage, which draw attention to their economic analyses and monitoring of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals. Visitors looking for reports and publications can take a look at some of their more recent works, such as the economic survey of Latin America and the Caribbean as well as papers on foreign investment in the region. The site is rounded out by a very helpful interactive database which provides information on trade for 33 of the region’s countries, along with 15 members of the European Union.

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB165/index.htm
The National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book series has intrigued and informed policymakers, students, and the general public for the past few years. This latest release should be no different as it provides FAA documents that deal with the attacks on the United States that occurred on the morning of September 11, 2001. These particular documents were referenced extensively in the first chapter of The 9/11 Commission Report and help corroborate the observation that the FAA was under prepared as it attempted to deal with these coordinated attacks. This particular collection includes eight documents, including radar reports and extensive chronologies that track the broader response of the US government in the wake of the attacks until late October 2001. Some of the more compelling materials include the FAA report titled “Summary of Air Traffic Hijack Events: September 11, 2001” which provides the most comprehensive chronology of the events of that day.

UNESCO: Education For All
http://www.unesco.org/education/efa/index.shtml
In 1990 participants at the World Conference on Education for All, in Jomtien, Thailand, articulated the importance of providing primary education “for all children and massively reducing adult illiteracy by the end of the decade”. By 2000, some of these goals were reached, but the World Education Forum (sponsored by UNESCO) continues to work towards achieving all of these goals. The website offered here includes sections that answer a number of FAQ’s about the initiative and provide material on how each country involved in this process is working towards these goals. For persons who might be interested in reading about the more recent achievements of the Education For All initiative, there is also a section titled “EFA Monitoring” which includes reports from 2002, 2003/2004, and 2005. Given the complexity of this global undertaking, visitors should not be surprised to find that there is also copious information on the global co-ordination efforts of the EFA initiative here as well.

Neuschwanstein Castle: Germany
http://www.neuschwanstein.de/english/index.htm
In 1864, Ludwig II, King of Bavaria wrote to the composer Richard Wagner stating his intention to rebuild the old castle of his ancestors. Speaking of the location he wrote that it was, “one of the most beautiful to be found.” The castle, opened to the public seven weeks after the death of King Ludwig II in 1886, is one of the most popular of all the palaces and castles in Europe. Every year 1.3 million people visit “the castle of the fairy-tale king.” On the castle’s official website (provided in both English and German) visitors follow links to discover the history of King Ludwig II, the building process, the surrounding area, and the challenges the castle faces today. Anyone with an interest in castles, Bavaria, or Germany will find this site useful and informative. The site also provides a plentitude of photos of the castle and the surrounding area, complete with detailed descriptions. In addition, the site provides quick links to other national historic sites within Germany including other castles of King Ludwig II.

iPod Subway Maps
http://ipodsubwaymaps.com/about.php
As more and more people use their iPod devices for a variety of uses, it seems quite apropos that there might be a website dedicated to providing maps of subway systems that urbanites and tourists alike can use at their own discretion. This particular site was designed by William Bright, and so far he has made close to two dozen maps available here. Some of the cities include Berlin, Paris, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Singapore, and Hong Kong. The website includes information on how to place the maps on the iPod, and also includes information about each map for those seeking additional material. Of course, as with many sites these days, there is also a weblog where visitors can keep track of new developments and additions to the site.

Event	General Public	IWA Basic Member	IWA Premium/Above Member	Student (with ID)
*Single Evening* Program**	$8	$4	Free	Free
*All Evening* Programs**	$24	$12	Free	Free
*Single Luncheon* Discussion**	$15	$11	$11	$11
All Evening and Luncheon Programs	$76	$52	$44	$44