18 Dec
2016
18 Dec
'16
3:55 p.m.
Awesome Leandro.
So... this proposal was born in the context of many conversations
around the University of Guadalajara.
We have met many researchers that may be interested to collaborate with
us, but we need to do a little bit of extra effort to have them on
board.
What I feel we need to do is to encourage them to touch topics that
they were not used to touch, and that could happen on a place (like a
mailing list) were we can stimulate them for that.
Do you have any idea on how we can do this?
And now that I know the many initiatives around, do we have an
Observatory of our field so we can have all this researches together
and show the interest that the research movement have on our field?
Regards,
On Sun, 2016-12-18 at 16:33 +0100, Leandro Navarro wrote:
On 17/12/16 14:54, Nicolas wrote:
Hi All,
Maureen and I have been having many interesting meetings this week
in
Guadalajara (and we will share the outcomes shortly).
One thing we saw was that there are many people on the academic
sector
that share our vision and want to contribute by doing research
papers
on our field.
What do you think about building a group that gets together all our
existing research fellows, where we can start adding people?
Hi, my opinion is that this already exists in a wider scope, the
ICT4D
community. One example is the excellent work IPID is doing for so
many
years: http://groupspaces.com/ipid
Regarding academic conferences (and communities around), we have
http://acmdev.org/ for the more technology oriented, and
http://ictd2017.itu.edu.pk/ for the more interdisciplinary.
For instance the ACMDEV 2015 had several papers about community
networks, and the best paper award was given to one about WISPs from
U
Berkeley: http://dev6.acmdev.org/program.php
There are also very relevant academic journals. One is " The Journal
of
Community Informatics". For instance this special issue:
http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/issue/view/54 is very nice.
You'll
see familiar names there.
A lesson learned (not only for me) is that research in ICT4D requires
recognized forums that can promote high-quality complementary
collaborations and publications, that can be competitive and compared
under normal academic quality metrics. That can enable research
careers
in these areas, visibility and research impact, which are long-term
critical issues. For these reasons, I find more effective and
sustainable to join and contribute to reinforce existing established
and
slightly wider-scope research communities.
Regards, Leandro.
Would that benefit our process?
Regards,
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