ICT Solution Design, Data Driven Decision Making and Data Management: Creative Data In A Global World

Diasporic use of computing, data, communication, i.e. as mediation, communication, knowledge sharing and experience, from the daily telephone call from North to South, to remittance systems based on smart phones and other digital solutions can be seen as data management of connectivity, in technical, social and cultural senses, included new solutions such crowd sourcing of knowledge from North to South.

The seminar debates new forms of research and project formats for ICT4D (Information and Communication Technology for Development, UN headline) with point of departure in Bangladeshi social enterprise mPower’s ground breaking work, reaching 2.5 million beneficiaries throughout the world, and University of Copenhagen’s experience with Africa’s first telepsychiatric system in The Horn of Africa, Somaliland, 2009-201. A key word for the seminar is Human and Context Centered ICT services design, data management, for end use in terms of project management, economic facilitation and assessment of quality etc.

Program:
10.00-10.10 Katrine Lotz, Architecture, Urbanism, and Landscape, KADK, Welcome
10.10-11.00 Hasib Ahsan, mPower, Data driven service design and deployment for the last miles: ICT for Development (ICT4D) cases from Bangladesh
11.00-11.10 Break
11.00-12.00 Panel: Flemming Konradsen, Copenhagen School of Global Health, Anders Michelsen, UCPH, Hasib Ahsan, mPower
12.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.10 Anders Michelsen UCPH, Introduction
14.10-14.40 Anders Michelsen, ICT4D and crowd sourcing: migration for development – ideas
14.40-14.55 Musa Hassan Yousef, SHIFAT, Hargeisa (on skype)
14.55-15.10 Muhammad Jama, DRDO, Bosaso (on skype)
15.10-15.15 Break
15.15-16.00 Panel: Musa Hassan Yousef, SHIFAT, Muhammad Jama, DRDO, Hasib Ahsan, mPower, Anders Michelsen, UCPH

Participants:
Hasib Ahsan, ICT Head of Operations, mPower Social Enterprises Ltd. 
Anders Michelsen, Associate Professor, Arts and Cultural Studies, UCPH,
Musa Hassan Yousef, Chief Executive Officer, SHIFAT, Hargeisa
Muhammad Jama, ICT4D Associate, DRDO, Bosaso
Flemming Konradsen, Professor, Head of Copenhagen School of Global Health
Katrine Lotz, Associate professor, Head of Department, Architecture, Urbanism, and Landscape, KADK

All are welcome

Information: Anders Michelsen, amichel@hum.ku.dk