Apologies for cross posting -------------------------- Dear colleagues and partners of CATIA, we would like to invite you to our Online Discussion Forum on "The Role of the Internet in Higher Education, Research, Science, and Technology Development in Subsaharan Africa". Please disseminate this invitation to your colleagues and partners who you think may be interested to participate in the discussion forum. Higher education, research and technology development are increasingly recognized as pre-conditions and/or drivers of African knowledge-based development. How can information and communication technologies (ICT), especially the Internet, contribute to strengthen the academic and scientific sector? Can e-Learning bring about better access to higher education? Are "open" approaches to publishing and content production a solution to the scarce visibility and availability of African knowledge resources? Will the Internet help Africa to become active producer of knowledge-intensive products? Questions like these are at the heart of our study, commissioned by the German Federal Parliament and conducted by newthinking communications GmbH and the German Development Institute. We invite you to contribute your valuable knowledge, insights and opinions to this research, benefiting at the same time of the mutual knowledge-sharing with experts in Africa and other parts of the world. As we expect the research topic to be booming in international development debate in the years to come, the network that may arise from this process might be of high value in the future. SCHEDULE: Mo. August 21, 2006 - Fr. September 8, 2006

Week 1: Internet in Higher Education, Teaching and Learning Week 2: Internet in Research and Science Week 3: Internet in Technology Development We will provide a summary of the discussion and share our analysis for further comments during the month of September. With our introductory message, we will share further details about the discussion.

REGISTRATION: The discussion forum is organized on DGroups. You can register by email or online. BY EMAIL: Send an email to <mailto:join-InternetAfrica@dgroups.org> join-InternetAfrica@dgroups.org ONLINE: Go to <http://www.dgroups.org/groups/cgiar/InternetAfrica/index.cfm?op=dsp_join> http://www.dgroups.org/groups/cgiar/InternetAfrica/index.cfm?op=dsp_join It would be helpful if you briefly outlined your relationship to the topic in the email or the registration form. Upon approval of your registration you will receive an automated email including your password. If you know of other experts that might be interested in participating in our forum, feel free to let them know and forward this message. Please direct your questions regarding the study and online discussion to <mailto:andrea.goetzke@newthinking.de> andrea.goetzke@newthinking.de. Best wishes, and looking forward to exciting exchanges, Andrea Goetzke, Andreas Stamm, Markus Beckedahl --- Andrea Goetzke newthinking communications GmbH |köln Aachener Str. 57 I 50674 Köln Germany + 49 - 221 - 35 689 198 andrea.goetzke [at] newthinking.de --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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