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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).