Scientific Approach: why and how
All our activities are being developed in an academic environment. We use a scientific way of working. This means that we interpret single problems as instances of more general problems. As a result, we develop general solutions that are applicable also for other problem instances. In order to improve on quality, we apply scientific research methodologies.
As we advocate the open source philosophy, we want to share our knowledge by making our results openly available to others. Primarily we want to publish our results in international journals and conferences. Besides scientific fora, we want to publish in those media that best reach our target audience.
We select our projects and courses for their high societal impact and relevancy in today's society in developing countries.
An overview of our scientific results:
Journal Publications
Implementing Gender Issues in ICT Education, N.A. Flipsen and Th.P. van der Weide
African Education Review, African Education Review
Mastercourse, Gender Issues in ICT, N.a. Flipsen and Th.P. van der Weide
Tinfon 2009, Dutch Educational Magazine http://www.tinfon.nl/
Conference contributions
The Middle-Out Approach: a program for the introduction of ICT education, N.A. Flipsen and Th. P. van der Weide
Prato Community Informatics Conference, Italy, Nov 4-6 2009, Prato Conference 2009
Learning without Borders: Community Based Learning in a Development Setting, N.A. Flipsen, Th.P. van der Weide, V. van Reijswoud and F. Ssozi
EEET Conference, Orlando, Florida USA, July 10-13 2009, EEET Conference 2009
The publicaton discusses an international variant of community based service learning.
Professional publications
Implementing Gender Issues in ICT, Africa Education Review. Vol.6, pages 308-322, October 2009,
The rapid technology changes caused by ICT have a strong impact on global societies. The paper describes how this is transformed into a mastercourse.
Technical reports
Engendering ICT Development, N.A. Flipsen and Th.P. van der Weide
Master courses developed
Gender Issues in ICT, 2008
Uganda/Kampala, Makerere University, CIT Faculty
A master course developed to emphasize the desired needs for gender aspects in an ICT environment.
ICT in a Different Culture, International studytour
A master course developed to have students carry out a small research in a totally different environment then what they are familiar with.The study tours destinations are usually developing countries, their large cities and rural areas.
2006 Uganda, 2007 India, 2008 South-Africa, 2009 India.
Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Bachelor courses developed
Community Outreach Project
A bachelor course designed for practical international experiences for bachelor students for developing projects related to ICT & Education for Development.
Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
