By Sara, on May 15th, 2013
The White Paper “Centros Multimédia Comunitários em Moçambique: um mapa” has now been released in Portuguese!
The paper presents the history, typologies and number of Community Multimedia Centres in Mozambique, as well as the description of a sample of 10 of them, one per each province of the country. The information provided has been collected within the field work of the project RE-ACT (Social REpresentations of community multimedia centres and ACTions for improvement), a research and development project run by the NewMinE Lab in collaboration with the Centre for African Studies and the Department of Mathemathics and Informatics of the University Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique.
The paper can be downloaded for free from this page on the NewMinE website.
By Sara, on November 23rd, 2012
The White Paper “Photo-elicited perceptions of Community Multimedia Centres in Mozambique”, edited by: Sara Vannini, Isabella Rega and Lorenzo Cantoni, and researched by Lucía Aguirre-Sánchez, has now been published!
The paper summarizes the results of the analysis of 103 photo-elicited interviews conducted to staff members and users of both the telecentre and radio components of the CMCs in our sample. It can be downloaded from the NewMinE Lab website.
By Sara, on November 9th, 2012
Sara Vannini participated to CIRN 2012, the Community Informatics Research Network Conference that was held at the Monash Centre of Prato, Italy, from 7 to 9 November 2012. She presented the paper “Inbound and Outbound Information and Communication Flows: Perspectives from Community Multimedia Centres in Mozambique” for the NewMinE, paper related to the project RE-ACT.
The conference saw the participation of several guest speakers, such as Barbara Craig (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand), Tim Whiteduck (First Nations Education Council, Canada), Tom Denison (Monash University, Australia), Ann Milne (Computer Clubhouse and Kia Aroha College, Auckland, New Zealand), Amalia Sabiescu and Paolo Paolini (Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland).
Below you can find the slides of her presentation.
By Sara, on September 8th, 2012
Sara Vannini and Lucía Aguirre, USI Master Student who’s working on RE-ACT for her thesis, participated to the 7th IPID symposium held in Kristainsand (NOR) the 6th and 7th of September 2012.
This annual postgraduate symposium sponsored by Swedish SPIDER brings together master and PhD students from IPID consortiated universities doing research on ICT4D. This year, 16 students from 16 different nationalities and 11 different universities presented their research on the use of ICTs in agriculture, health, education, development policy, and community support in Southern countries such as India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Syria, Kenya, Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Mozambique.
 IPID 2012 Group IPID symposia made their reputation as a rather informal academic gathering to provide young scholars with an occasion to meet up, share, and receive feedback from peers as well as from senior researchers and professors.
With their researches on the project, both Lucía and Sara won awards for their respective categories: best conventional presentation went to Lucía, while Sara best role-play.
 IPID - Lucía presentation
By Sara, on August 13th, 2012
On August 9th, Sara Vannini presented her PhD progresses on Social Representations of Community Multimedia Centres in Mozambique at a TASCHA TALK, organized by the TASCHA Group at the Information School of the University of Washington, Seattle, where she was spending her one month visit.
Below you can find the slides of her presentation:
By Sara, on June 30th, 2012
Isabella Rega and Sara Vannini participated to the 11th International Conference on Social Representations in Évora, Portugal, where they gave a presentation on the Photo Elicitation technique for Social Representations.
You can have a look at the presentation here:
By Sara, on June 29th, 2012
Isabella Rega gave a presentation about the Photo Elicitation results at the conference ICTs, New Media and Social Change in Africa, held in London (University of Westminster) on June 15, 2012.
See some pictures of the event.
Take a look at the presentation:
RE-ACT: Photo elicitation @ Westminster University
By Sara, on May 12th, 2012
The Field trips to officially start RE-ACT Improvement Actions in the 9 CMCs that agreed to participate in our project will start soon! Salomão David and me (Sara Vannini) are leaving already tomorrow to visit Chiure, Cuamba, Ilha de Moçambique, Sussundenga, Dondo, Chitima, Xinavane, Quelimane and Morrumbene in this order. We foresee to start tomorrow and to be back in Maputo on June 10th. We’ll keep you posted as much as possible along the days!
By Sara, on April 30th, 2012
The directors of the CMCs of Chitima, Chiure, Cuamba, Dondo, Ilha de Mocambique, Morrumbene, Quelimane, Sussundenga and Xinavane met the RE-ACT team for a Workshop in Maputo on Tuesday and Wednesday 24 and 25 April 2012.
The aim of the Workshop was both to present the first results of the interviews we conducted last year during our visits to all of them, and to co-design with them the improvement actions we are going to implement in their CMCs during the next one year and a half, until the end of the project.
The Workshop was as much interactive as possible. Directors engaged in two different group works along the days: the first one was aimed at discussing the pictures collected during a part of the interviews; the second one was aimed at imagining improvement actions by starting from their own community needs.
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Photo Elicitation Focus Group
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Workshop with CMC directors 24 and 25 April 2012
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Reflecting on Community Needs
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Reflecting on Community Needs
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Finally, each director discussed individually with the RE-ACT team the improvement action his CMC will engage into: four will have courses specifically designed for schools and young people, two will take a maintenance course, two will implement a platform for their community and one will create a cinema.
By Sara, on April 22nd, 2012
 All directors of CMCs involved in the RE-ACT project will gather in Maputo on April 24-25. The goal of the meeting is twofold: first of all the RE-ACT staff will present the results of the field trip of the last year, and will discuss them with CMC directors.
Secondly, we will work together to co-design the improvement actions for each CMC, which will lead us on the second phase of the project.
Here you can find the REACT_Workshop_Final_Program.
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Publications Download the white paper "Photo-elicited perceptions of Community Multimedia Centres in Mozambique" from this page"
Download the white paper "Community Multimedia Centres in Mozambique: a Map" from this page! |
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