Programme

Only the first named authors are listed here - full details of these papers will be found on the conference CD, an online copy of which can be found here.

Welcome

• For the Cape Peninsula University of Technology: Anthony Staak
• For the e-Innovation Academy: Geoff Erwin

Plenary sessions

• Michael Gurstein
• Terry Crawford-Browne
• Mary-Jean Johnson, Baratang Miya

Panel sessions

• Role of Universities  (Shaun Pather)
• Who is going to pay for IT (Grafton Whyte)
• Corporate Social Responsibility (Darlington Onojaefe)

Working sessions: 

E-Government  (Wallace Taylor)

• 'e-Administration', a Paper Less Office Tool, for e-Governance. Gopalakrishnan Devanathan, International Transparency and Accountability Network, India*
• The GAP Principles: Enabling e-government through effective Information Technology Governance, Architecture and Procurement. Michael Thatcher, Microsoft Corporation, Turkey*

Knowledge Society (Harold Wesso) 

• The African Digital City: augmenting social capital?. Nancy Odendaal, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa 
• Current issues in Indigenous Knowledge Systems and the implications for Human Activity and Interaction in the context of the Anti-Retroviral treatment Information System (ARTIS) project. Machdel Matthee, University of Pretoria, South Africa
• Exploring the concepts of the appropriation and usability of community technology – from the Activity Theory perspective. Nhlanhla Mlitwa, e-Innovation Academy (e-IA), Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), South Africa
• The e-community forums of the Western Cape. Daniel Yakmut Inusa, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa
• The Remittance Economy in Africa: Information Communication Technology (ICT), Socio-Economic Development and Poverty Alleviation for Community Benefits Blessing Maumbe, eIA, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa

Technology (Stuart Warden)

• Glocal Mobile Pipelines for Emancipation. Gilson Schwartz, University of São Paulo
• Open Source GIS and Mobile Devices for Water Demand Management. Melissa Loudon, Cell-Life, South Africa
• Mobile and Wireless Technology: Making a world of difference. Emmanuel Adigun, University of Pretoria, South Africa
• The end of television - community TV in a converging world. Mike Aldridge, Media stream cc, South Africa*
• Distance Learning and Information Sharing Tool for the Benguela Coastal Areas (DLIST – Benguela). Rean van der Merwe, 
• EcoAfrica Environmental Consultants, SA*Information society access in developing countries: The broadband promotion in Latin America. Arturo Robles Rovalo,Universidad Politécnica de Madrid UPM - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México UNAM, Spain - Mexico

CI Applications (Baratang Miya)

• Where is the ‘community’ in the South African Health Information System?. Elaine Byrne, University of Pretoria, South Africa
• Information Management and Dissemination of HIV/AIDS Information by NGOs in Zimbabwe: An Exploratory Study. Lazarus Matizirofa, University of Cape Town, South Africa
• Diffusion model for information communication & technology: nigerian primary healthcare experience. Bayo Idowu, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Obafemi Awolowo University,, Nigeria
• The Influence of ICT on Farm Income and Health in Oyo State of Nigeria. Adeolu Ayanwale, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State Nigeria, Nigeria 
• Data Quality: How the flow of data influences data quality in a Small to Medium Medical Practice (SMMP).. Marlon Parker, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa 
• Community Networking in MINPHIS Development. Rhoda Ikono, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
• Applying a theory of online community development as a basis for reform of community based Non Government Organisations (NGOs). Highlighting the experience of hmminfo project, a Home Modification Service Information service within Australia as exampl. Andrew Clark, University Sydney, Australia
• ICT linked development in rural KZN - Sobonakhona Makhanya TA. Marie De Beer, Durban University of Technology, South Africa
• Medical practitioner’s interactions with their communities:a namibian perspective. Meke Iyaloo Shivute, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa
• Impact of ICTs to community. James Ssenabulya, Nakaseke Community Multimedia Centre, Uganda*

Telecentres (Lungile Lose) 

• Using Diffusion of Innovation Framework to Explain the Communal Computing Facilities Adoption Among the Urban Poor. Wallace Chigona, Department of Information Systems, University of Cape Town, South Africa
• The Evolution of the Static Information Repository. Oliva Muwanga-Zake, Fort Hare University - East London, SA
• Internet Cafés in Jordan : An Anthropological Study. Mohammed Shunnaq, Yarmouk University / University of Arkansas, Jordan / USA

CI Related Methodologies (Grafton Whyte)

• Community Information Needs in Botswana: a case study of an e-readiness study. Neo Mooko, University of Botswana, Botswana
• Stakeholders’ understanding and use of information are imperative for the successful delivery of community based projects. Hester Meyer, Unisa, South Africa
• Participatory tools and techniques: sharing experiences from a community-based health information systems project. Elaine Byrne, University of Pretoria, South Africa
• Using the Actor Network Theory to investigate the Implementation of an ICT Youth Advocacy in Malawi. Wallace Chigona, Young Advocates for the Advancement of ICT-related Development, Malawi
• A discussion of the status quo and the use of grounded theory. Zoran Mitrovic, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa
• Crawler visibility and human usability of a government services website from a technomunity angle.. Melius Weideman, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa
• Combining work development with information systems development - ZipIT project. Anja Mursu, University of Kuopio, Finland*
• Why ICT4D works: the role of community informatics and social capital. Donna Vaughan, University of NSW and Partners in Micro-development Inc., Australia*

Workshop:

The conference visited a youth programme that has had extraordinary success in bringing township youth to university entry, and in supporting them through their studies, in order to exercise some of the ideas coming out of the conference. . The objective was to find a way in which the CI community can make its own contribution to their success.