Dr. Heeks is the director of the Institute of Development Policy and Management in the University of Manchester. They are dedicated to the study of management in social development.

Silvia Cadena is the organiser behind Wi-LAC, a network, of wireless technology for development in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Their work is dedicated to the design, implementation and deployment of community wireless networks using afforddable components and creating sustainable models for rural community access to the Internet.

This is a brief audio summary of the content we have on our website this month, including the audio interview with Dr. Richard Heeks, the audio interview with Ms. Silvia Cadena, and the videos from the Robotics classroom at the Omar Dengo Foundation.

Margarita Salas
Sula Batsu Costa Rica
Researcher of Women, ICT and social economy models
http://www.sulabatsu.com

Summary:

Dr. Richard Heeks
Institute for Development Policy and Management
University of Manchester
http://www.womenictenterprise.org/

(Note: This is an edit from a previous GK3 Online Interactions feature)

Summary:

Kirsten Jordan
Online Community Partnership Coordinator
Taking IT Global : http://takingitglobal.org/

This is the summary of our website content for July.

Background music iis open content made available by Phantastika Kontrabanda

Tatiana Glad is a partner in Engage!

Allison Hewlitt, programme officer for Bellanet (www.bellanet.org) inside of IDRC is an experienced facilitator that is also engaged in multiple reflection spaces around Knowledge Management and Knowledge Sharing topics for the development community.

Allen Gunn from Aspiration (www.aspirationtech.org) organizes and facilitates events for the tech sector and non-profit organizations, bringing together practitioners to talk and share knowledge from their particular backgrounds and experiences.

Web2forDev- Participatory web for Development is happening at the end of September (25th to 27th) in Rome ,and it's bringing together a group of practitioners that use Web 2.0 in development contexts.

Summary. Social outsourcing and Fair Trade in IT, by Dr. Richard Heeks

Mark Surman
Partnership Director, telecentre.org
Panel: EM5: Emerging Markets Session
Partnerships, Networks and Telecentre 2.0

Questions and answer summaries:

Q1. Your panel revolves around the concept of Partnerships and telecentres working together to leverage common experiences and lessons learned. What are some examples of those successful partnerships?

Claudia Morrell
EP6: Emerging People Session
Creating a New Strategy for Gender in the Information Society: Empowering Women in ICT

SUMMARY:

Your panel is addressing the efforts to mainstream gender into the ICT4D movement. Can you provide some examples of how gender is integrating into ICT4D efforts around the world?

Dwayne Bailey
Founder and Managing Director of Translate.org.za
ET1: Emerging Technologies Session
ICT for a Multilingual Knowledge Society

Summary:

Q1, Your panel touches on a very complex subject such as cultural appropriateness of ICTs. Why do you think localizing ICTs to the needs of developing countries is a priority?

At the second day of the Telecentre Leaders Forum, Richard Fuchs (IDRC 's Regional Director for Southeast and East Asia) talks about the experience of the group so far. This is a quick bit of audio gathered right out of the session rooms.

What's going on at the Telecentre Leaders Forum? This is the second day of TLF sessions and the participants have been working on the strengthening and future visioning of the movement. Yacine Khelladi, one of the participants (who is one of the telecentre networks leaders in the Caribbean) talks about the sessions and their work on a collaborative "cookbook" for Telecentre networks.

Manuel Flury from the Swiss Agency from Development and Cooperation, talks about his participation in GK3 and his views on sessions and the exhibition floor

Eduardo Monge from the Omar Dengo Foundation in Costa Rica talks about his experience in GK3.