应兰州大学西部环境与气候变化研究院孟兴民教授邀请，英国伦敦大学皇家霍洛威学院地理系Tim Unwin教授来我院访问交流，并作学术报告。

报告人：Tim Unwin教授

报告题目：ICT's for development: rhetoric or reality?

报告时间：2011年8月26日（星期五）下午4:30-6:00

报告地点：祁连堂（新文科楼）502报告厅

报告人简介

Tim Unwin is Chair of the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK, UNESCO Chair in ICT4D, Director of the ICT4D Collective and Professor of Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. From 2001-2004 he led the UK Prime Minister’sImfundo: Partnership for IT in Educationinitiative based within the Department for International Development, and from 2007 he was Director and then Senior Advisor to the World Economic Forum’sPartnerships for Educationinitiative with UNESCO.He was previously Head of the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London (1999–2001), and has also served as Honorary Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers) (1995-1997). He has written or edited 15 books, and more than 200 papers and other publications, including “Wine and the Vine” (Routledge, 1991), “The Place of Geography” (Longman, 1992), as well as his edited “Atlas of World Development” (Wiley, 1994) and “A European Geography” (Longman, 1998). His research has taken him to some 25 countries across the world, from Estonia to Sierra Leone, and Ethiopia to Singapore, and he has worked on subjects as diverse as the role of banknotes as expressions of national identity, and the historical-geography of viticulture and the wine trade. Over the last decade his research has concentrated on information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D), focusing especially on the use of ICTs to support people with disabilities, and to empower out of school youth. His latest collaborative book, entitled simplyICT4D, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2009. He also serves as Academic Advisor and External Examiner for the Institute of Masters of Wine.

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