Last Saturday November 16th 2013, the Symposium “Africa: help, coopertate or invest?” took place in Lugano, organized by Fosit and MIC. It started off with an introduction to the topic by Prof. Veglio, president of FOSIT and professor at the university of St. Gallen, followed by a roundtable discussion. The guest speakers were Blandine SankaraContinue reading “Symposium on Africa: help, cooperate or invest?”
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Khan Academy – educational videos for free
The Khan academy is an incredible success story of education through new media. E-learining has promised to be the solution to a more personalized and affordable education. Yet, computers alone are not the answer. Salman Khan had this idea back in 2004, creating educational videos for his cousins, and uploading them on youtube. Now theContinue reading “Khan Academy – educational videos for free”
Live from ICT Society and Human Beings
IADIS international conference ICT, Society and Human Beings 2011 stated Sunday July 24th with a beautiful opening session by the conference co-chairs Diane Whitehouse and Professor Emerita Gunilla Bradley, of the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. I noticed with pleasure that Prof. Bradley’s presentation made use of visuals and visual metaphors, like the sunflowerContinue reading “Live from ICT Society and Human Beings”
Visualizing at the Emergence conference on India
This year the Emergence conference, organized by the University of St. Gallen, has focused on India. The amount of knowledge on India of the speakers was astonishing, a conference of really high quality. I was pleased to see a large use of visual representations and sketching to moderate workshops. In the picture below the speakersContinue reading “Visualizing at the Emergence conference on India”
Sabrina Bresciani, Ph.D. 