[Sigiii-l] Fwd: July 2012 issue of 'Information Technology in Developing Countries'

[M.J. Menou]

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Subject: 	July 2012 issue of 'Information Technology in Developing 
Countries'
Date: 	Wed, 8 Aug 2012 15:10:58 +0530
From: 	ifipnewsletter <ifipnewsletter at iimahd.ernet.in>
To: 	<micheljmenou at gmail.com>



Dear Subscriber,

Warm Greetings! The July 2012 issue of '/Information Technology in 
Developing Countries/' is now available at: 
http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/egov/ifip/current.htm

The current issue of Information Technology in Developing Countries 
carries seven articles and a conference announcement. The first article 
"Interactive Information Dissemination System" by T.S. Anurag and 
Shambhu Kumar conceptualises a multimodal information system that can 
address farmers' information needs through a combination of push pull 
ubiquitous technology such as smart phones, featured phones, Interactive 
Voice Response System (IVRS), Internet, tablets and kiosks. The article 
is based on an analytical framework developed from the findings of a 
study of 26 ICT initiatives in agriculture in India.

This is followed by an article on "The Open Content Methodology and 
Subject-oriented Educational Environment" by Valery S. Meskov, Irina V. 
Smirnova and Anna A. Mamchenko. The article focuses on inclusion of a 
subject into the picture of the educational world as well as on some 
aspects of applying of the post-non-classical approach to the theories 
of learning and design of subject-oriented environments. Conditionality 
of goals, aims and criteria of education by used approaches and 
principles is proclaimed, and the correlation between type of social 
framework and dominating methodology is revealed. Further, the article 
discusses e-Learning as a subject-focused virtual environment which 
possesses educational competencies and supports processes of 
transformation of the Subject through immersing in the 
subject-to-subject communication space of culture.

The next article by Dr. Susan Sharma is titled "Environment Education 
Online: Learning in a Community of Practice". The author discusses the 
transition of education in India with the arrival of disruptive 
technologies, and the trend towards individualized learning, life-long 
learning and collaborative learning with specific reference to an online 
portal for Environment Education.

Mira Desai's article on "ICT-Oral Cultures Development" questions the 
role of ICT in communication between users belonging to oral cultures, 
and whether development through ICT can be 'sustainable' in a country 
like India where most basic amenities are yet to be distributed amongst 
the poor and the social disparity is widening. The article also 
highlights the challenge of application- ICT for entertainment by 
playing Farmville or for education, ICT for social connectivity or 
merely for fun?

The next article on the "Impact of ICT on Schooling" by Utpal Mallik 
highlights the need to analyze what happened in schools with computers 
during the past quarter of a century, and to understand the impact that 
the technology has made, or has failed to make on school education -- on 
students' learning and teachers' teaching. D.S.K. Rao's article 
describes a community based integrated information system to promote 
"Inclusive Growth in Agriculture & 127 Other Vocations". The article 
conceptualises a web based ERP product supporting all Indian languages 
and mobile devices, which can be cloud deployed with a provision to 
technically integrate several implementations in different communities 
as clusters for remote consolidation and monitoring at the 
district/state/zone/national level. The last article titled "RFID-Based 
Solid Waste Collection" by Suchit S. Purohit and Vinod M. Bothale 
explores the potential of Radio frequency identification (RFID) for 
efficient solid waste management.

We hope you will find this issue interesting and we look forward to 
receiving your feedback on the same. We welcome your contributions for 
the forthcoming issue of the IFIP WG 9.4 Newsletter. Interested 
contributors are requested to refer to the guidelines for authors 
available at: http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/egov/ifip/guidelines.htm  or 
may mail us at: ifipnewsletter at iimahd.ernet.in 
<mailto:ifipnewsletter at iimahd.ernet.in>

The July 2012 issue can be directly accessed at: 
http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/egov/ifip/jul2012.htm. A downloadable PDF 
version of this issue is also available on our website (URL: 
http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/egov/ifip/jul2012/jul2012.pdf) to ease access 
and facilitate printing.

With Best Regards,

Editorial Team, IFIP WG 9.4 Newsletter.

Centre for Electronic Governance,

Indian Institute of Management,

Ahmedabad - 380 015, India

Phone: +91 79 6632 4128

URL: http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/egov/ifip/wg.htm







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