Abstract
The growing demand for user-centered, sustainable, collaborative and ecosystem-aware ICT4D programs and projects brings requirements for education of a new generation ICT4D professionals. This paper presents a post-graduate field-based course in ICT4D that teaches how to co-create and deploy community-centered ICT services. The course has been jointly organized and deployed by Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam and Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) for a mixed group of computer science, information science and artificial intelligence students from VU and UNIMAS. The course design, experiences, outcomes and evaluation are presented in this paper.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Information and Communication Technologies for Development. Strengthening Southern-Driven Cooperation as a Catalyst for ICT4D |
Subtitle of host publication | 15th IFIP WG 9.4 International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, ICT4D 2019, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, May 1–3, 2019, Proceedings, Part II |
Editors | Honest Christopher Kimaro, Petter Nielsen |
Place of Publication | Cham, Switzerland |
Publisher | Springer Nature Switzerland AG |
Pages | 386-397 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Volume | 2 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9783030191153 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783030191146 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2019 |
Event | 15th International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, ICT4D 2019 - Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, United Republic of Duration: 1 May 2019 → 3 May 2019 |
Publication series
Name | IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology |
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Volume | 552 |
ISSN (Print) | 1868-4238 |
Conference
Conference | 15th International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, ICT4D 2019 |
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Country/Territory | Tanzania, United Republic of |
City | Dar es Salaam |
Period | 1/05/19 → 3/05/19 |
Funding
Acknowledgements. The authors are grateful to Associate Professor Dr. Johari Abdullah, Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology from UNIMAS and Frans Snijders, Director of the International Office of VU Amsterdam for their great support to the project. We thank the community leader and inhabitants of Kampung Pinggan Jaya for their hospitality and collaboration. We thank the students Amir AziziMusa, Aron van Groningen, Ludwig Hoon, Kuan Huiggy, Giorgi Kikolashvili, Allard Oelen, Hameedat Omoine, Judith Schermer, Anastasios Sidiropoulos, Deva Ramakrishnan, Linh Tran, Chris Valladares, Nip van Wees for their work. We thank Leeuw van Moerkerken for filming and producing the video clips of the project. This project is part of the W4RA research program.
Keywords
- Community service education
- Context
- Ecosystem awareness
- ICT4D education
- Information system development life cycle
- Sustainability
- User-centered approach