Dear friends,

Welcome to the 26th issue of our newsletter and the last one before the autumn. This issue brings you updates on the IPID network, partner universities and the Junior ICT Expert program as well as reports from recent conferences. We also have an introduction of our newest staff member Magnus Lundsten.

Before we enter the traditional summer vacation, SPIDER would like to thank you for your contributions to the newsletters. We wish all our readers a wonderful summer and we look forward to resuming our activities and start new initiatives in the autumn.

Best Regards,

Annelie Östlund and the SPIDER team

ICT4MPOWER and SPIDER at IST Africa, May 6-8th

The SPIDER supported project ICT4MPOWER was presented at the IST AFrica conference in Kampala, Uganda during May 6-8th. Karoline Beronius from SPIDER also presented the Swedish experience on ICT4D cooperation in Africa.

SPIDER welcomes a new staff member

Magnus Lundsten joined the SPIDER team as ICT4D Advisor on May 4th, 2009.

SPIDER participated at eLearning Africa

SPIDER participated in the conference eLearning Africa 2009 at the end of May 2009. Projects were presented both at a workshop and during regular sessions.

Junior ICT Experts out on internships

Four new Junior ICT Experts on internships during the summer 2009.

Presentation of SPIDER at Communication for Development seminar

SPIDER presented during a seminar in Communication4D at Malmö Högskola.

Malmö Högskola is now a network partner

Malmö Högskola is SPIDER's newest network partner.

IPID research workshop and course series

The International Post Graduate Student Network (IPID), which is supported by SPIDER, arranged a serie of seminars on the topic "Blended technologies for development" this spring in order to introduce students to a variety of different technologies. Each of the three seminars, held at Ericsson and KTH, were attended by around 30 students from various Swedish universities.

A reasearch workshop was also recently held at Örebro University, organized by the PhD. students and IPID coordinators Annika Andersson and Mathias Hatakka.

IPID's 4th Annual Conference

The SPIDER supported international network for postgraduate students, IPID, will be holding its 4th annual conference on September 11-12, 2009. Read further to find out more about the topics and how to register.

Follow SPIDER on Twitter and LinkedIn

It is now possible to follow SPIDER on Twitter and to join our group on LinkedIn.