ICTs, Climate Change and Development Conference
Location
Johannesburg
Workshop Purpose:
Awareness: to raise awareness among participants of the role ICTs can play vis-à-vis climate change in developing countries
Action: to identify and advocate specific actions that participants' organisations can take to improve the strategic integration between ICTs and climate change within development
Agenda: to identify the future ICCD agenda for policy-makers and strategists, for practitioners, and for research
Draft Workshop Content:
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Monday Jan 23rd |
Workshop Introduction |
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ICCD Overview |
Understanding climate change and ICTs in a development context |
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Mitigation and Monitoring |
ICTs' contribution to carbon emissions; their role in smart emission-reduction techniques and green IT; monitoring climate change via digital technologies |
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Adaptation |
What climate change adaptation means and requires for developing countries and communities; ICTs' role in supporting adaptation strategies |
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Tuesday Jan 24th |
Strategic Planning |
Organisational strategies for ICTs, climate change and development; policy influence and advocacy actions |
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ICCD Issues |
Implications of ICTs and climate change for specific development priorities (e.g. water, health); cross-cutting ICCD issues |
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Future Agenda Setting |
What should be the future agenda for research, for policy and for action in the ICCD arena? |
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Organisational and Network Action Plans |
Development of individual and collective action plans for ICTs, climate change and development |
The main sessions of the workshop will consist of overview and case study presentations, plus opportunities for group discussions, interactive lesson-learning, and agenda setting. On Sunday 22 January we plan to hold informal meetings and discussion events.
Participants and Nomination for Participation:
Key individuals with strategic responsibilities for either ICTs or climate change in development organisations in the NGO, public and private sector. We anticipate approximately 30 participants in total.
If you are interested in participating, and are able to self-fund this participation, please send nomination information to niccd.project@gmail.com byMONDAY 31st OCTOBER 2011. Please provide the following information:
a) Your full name
b) Your employing organisation
c) Full contact details (postal address; phone; fax; email; web address)
d) Your job title
e) The relevance of your role to ICTs, climate change and development (max 100 words)
f) What benefits and future actions you anticipate emerging from your participation in the workshop (max 100 words)
g) Confirmation you are able to fund your own participation at the event
Please note that applications for bursaries from the workshop organisers have now closed.
For those self-funding, we anticipate total costs for international participants for flights, food and accommodation, local travel, etc. to be roughly US$2,000-2,500. Please note we are making no charge for participation in the workshop itself.
