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SDGs in the light of Digital Transformation

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A round table discussion with Saa Dittoh, Julia Neidhardt, Marcel Stelte, Auke Schuringa, Oleksandr Zakotianskyi, took place at VU Amsterdam, this was a session of the Conference “Navigating the Anthropocene”, Amsterdam, 30 January 2025. During this event, two major frameworks for a better world are linked. These are (1) the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, c.q. SDG1 zero hunger, SDG5 gender equality, and (2) Digital Humanism, the initiative that aims to ensure that digital technology remains … Read more

How to address the SDGs in the light of the Digital Transformation?

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Amsterdam, January 2025 – Everywhere in the world, people are talking about the Digital Transformation. Artificial Intelligence (AI), once a rather obscure and contested area in Computer Science, has become a coffee-table conversation topic. Many countries and blocks (incl. EU) have policies in place to educate digital skills, and they aim (all, without exception!) to be internationally leading. How this is connected to progress in achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is however … Read more

Digital transition discussed with Minister of Education in Sarawak

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Kuching, 17 September 2024 – EURIDICE (partners UNIMAS, AKMC and VU) were invited by the Minister of Education, Innovation and Talent Development of Sarawak to discuss innovative education on Digital Society, in the light of the ongoing Digital Transformation. The EURIDICE project was presented to the Minister and his top-level staff and the European policies regarding digital technologies were discussed. Sarawak, Malaysia, as one of the rapidly growing economies in Asia, is faced with a … Read more

Connected World Outreach event: Symposium “Perspectives on ICT4D”

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A mini-symposium was devoted to ICT for Development in the Field. ICT4D is an interdisciplinary research topic, to explore design/deployment of digital technologies for communities in resource-contrained environments. It is based on a research program at VU that runs since 2009. Students following this course design socio-technological solutions based on use cases provided to them by users in rural regions of Africa and Asia.

EURIDICE at 20×30 Europe’s Advanced Digital Skills Summit

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Madrid, 16 May 2024 – The “20×30: Europe’s ADS Summit”, took place today in La Nave in Madrid. How to train 20 million European citizens in the next five years, to become specialists in Advanced Digital Skills: that is one of Europe’s priorities underpinning the Digital Decade policy initiative, in this era of rapid technological evolution. The EURIDICE project was one of the few projects that were invited for a special showcase. EURIDICE stood out … Read more

First EURIDICE Professional Life-Long-Learning Module: ICT for Social Good

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Turin, Italy, February 2024. At the request of the University of Turin, Italy, EURIDICE has delivered its first Professional Life-Long-Learning module (WP4). It is entitled “Introduction to ICT4D and Interdisciplinary Applications”, and it has been delivered as part of Turin’s master degree program “ICT For Development and Social Good” (https://www.ictforsocialgoodmaster.eu/). 15 professionals in various areas of Development participated, from all over the world (Africa, Latin America, Europe, Middle East).