robert fitzgerald, phd

We are getting quite a bit of interest in our sms work in Cambodia using FrontlineSMS. Ken Banks has written about it in Cambodian farmers turn to their phone, MobileActive.org in Frontline SMS Review and Internet & Democracy Project at Harvard University in Frontline SMS Launches New Version, Continues to Foster Change. In late November 2008 we presented our ideas to the Northwest Agricutural Marketing Association (Battambang, Cambodia) for the development of a sms-based field communications and information system (full presentation). More.

We are finalising submissions for the 6th International Conference on Imagination and Education to be held 29-31 January in Canberra next year. To date we have over 110 submissions and the program promises to be varied and stimulating. Once we are through the review process submissions will be available via our online conference system. This system has been developed by the folk at UBC & SFU as part of the Public Knowledge Project which...

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