[Urbanstudy] Talk by Professor Michael Best, UN Univeristy on Computing and Society, at IIIT Bangalore

[Balaji Parthasarathy]

The Center for Information Technology and Public Policy (CITAPP)
International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IIITB)

invites you to a talk titled


Peace, Gender & Data:

ICTD Research and the United Nations

by


Michael L Best
(Director, United Nations University Institute on Computing and Society and Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology)

2:30 PM on July 15, 2015 (Friday)
Venue: IIITB campus
26/C, Electronic City, Hosur Road, Bangalore

About the talk

The United Nations University Institute on Computing and Society (UNU-CS) is a new research and policy intensive institute at the intersections of information and communication technologies and international development (ICTD). In this talk we will overview our three initial research focus areas: ICTs for peacebuilding and to support human security, respond to crises, and mitigate human displacement; ICTs that promote women's empowerment and enable sustainable community led development; and ICTs that create actionable knowledge from local data, empower citizens with data they trust, and improve global datasets with local data. We will introduce UNU-CS, review new and emerging research projects across these foci, and explore with you the future for this Institute.

About the speaker

Michael L. Best directs the United Nations University Institute on Computing and Society (UNU-CS) in Macau SAR, China. He is a Professor, on leave, with the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology where he directs the Technologies and International Development Lab. He is the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of the widely read journal, Information Technologies and International Development and leads the Global Computing column for Communications of the ACM. He holds a Ph.D. from MIT and has served as director of Media Lab Asia in India and head of the eDevelopment group at the MIT Media Lab. His research focuses on information and communication technologies (ICTs) for social, economic, and political development. In particular he studies mobile and Internet-enabled services and their design, impact, and importance within low-income countries of Africa and Asia. He researches engineering, public policy, and business issues as well as methods to assess and evaluate development outcomes. He is also interested in the impact of ICTs on the development-security nexus and on post-conflict reconstruction and reconciliation.


More about UNU-CS: http://cs.unu.edu/

More about CITAPP: http://citapp.iiitb.ac.in/


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