Information Access for Africa
Odyssey Group Workshop 2001
Mercator Projection of Africa; see also the Peters Projection
Aim:
To:
- explore the potential and affordances of electronic modes of communication for African development
- identify current and emerging practices in this arena
- to develop and share skills, techniques and tools for building and maintaining websites
- seek to develop theoretical perspectives and their practical applications.
Venue:
Centre for Social Policy
Studies,
University of Ghana, Legon
Convenor:
Len Holmes (University of North London, England)
e-mail: l.holmes@unl.ac.uk
website: http://www.re-skill.org.uk/
Odyssey Group homepage (http://www.odysseygroup.org.uk/)
Websites managed by Odyssey Group members
- Changeworks
- Relational Skill and Learning
- Unionsonline
- The Change Page
- Strategic Theory Network
- e-collectivism
Other Links
Virtual
journeys
join us in our journeys with our partners: website development,
field trips, seminar presentations etc
Sharing
Practice
the beginnings of a set of webpages for sharing our
knowledge, skills, techniques, practices
leave a message to share your views, questions, ideas, etc
Read
the Guestbook
[Guestbook by TheGuestBook.com]
Resident Participants:
(alphabetical order)
Professor Nana Apt,
Centre for Social Policy Studies, University of Ghana
e-mail: aptnana@hotmail.com
website: http://www.geocities.com/csps_ghana
Dr Steve Conway,
Aston University, England
e-mail: CONWAYS@pcmail.aston.ac.uk
Dr Dave Crowther,
University of North London, England
e-mail: Davideacrowther@aol.com
website: http://www.geocities.com/davideacrowther
Yaw Dankwa,
Co-ordinator for Information & Publicity, Ghana Red Cross Society
e-mail: yawdankwa8@yahoo.com
website: http://www.geocities.com/dankwagrams
Dr Anne-Marie Greene,
Warwick University, England
e-mail: mailto:greene_anne_marie@hotmail.com
website: http://www.e-collectivism.org.uk/
Professor Margaret Grieco,
Napier University, Scotland
e-mail: msgrieco@aol.com
website: http://www.geocities.com/margaret_grieco
Len Holmes,
University of North London, England
e-mail: mailto:l.holmes@unl.ac.uk,
website: http://www.re-skill.org.uk/
http://www.graduate-employability.org.uk/
Professor Dian Marie Hosking,
Tilburg University, Netherlands
e-mail:mailto:dhosking@compuserve.com
websites: http://www.changeworks.org.uk/
http://www.geocities.com/dian_marie_hosking
Dr Stephen Little,
Open University
e-mail: s.e.little@open.ac.uk
website: http://www.geocities.com/stephen_e_little
Local Partners:
(alphabetical order)
Augustine Kobina Andoh
Senior Organizer, Documentation and Information Centre for Social Policy
Studies University of Ghana
e-mail: mdsghana@hotmail.com
Albert Anochie
Director, Social Network for Development
e-mail: sonel23@hotmail.com
Rev. Tony Appiah-Mensah
Project Officer, RESPONSE, Accra
(Mrs) Matilda Asamany
Local guide
email: matildaasamany@hotmail.com
Isaiah Awidi
mailto:atisaiah@hotmail.com
Michelle Banks
Lecturer, Department of Social Work University of Ghana
e-mail: socialwk@ug.edu.gh
Banks_Michele@hotmail.com
Dr Ben Blavo
Associate to Centre for Social Policy Studies, Consultant on Refugees
e-mail: blavoben@hotmail.com
website: http://www.geocities.com/mionido
Dr Leslie Casely-Hayford
Consultant/ Researcher, Associates for Change, Accra
e-mail: comdev9@yahoo.com
website: http://www.geocities.com/comdev9/
Dr Romanus D. Dinye
Senior Research Fellow, Department of Planning and Housing Research, Kwame
Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi
e-mail: ustlib@libr.ug.edu.gh
Mrs Rukaya Abowen Dake,
Planned Parenthood Association of Ghana, Accra
e-mail: rukaia@hotmail.com
Felix Y Donkor-Badu
Extension Services Specialist
Community and Water Sanitation Agency,
P.O. Box AH 884 Achimota-Accra
e-mail : fingaro2000@yahoo.com
website:
http://www.geocities.com/smhd_ghana
Sena Gabianu
Retired World Bank Representative, OAU/ECA Accra
e-mail: agabianu@hotmail.com
Jayne Grier
Ghana Federation of the Disabled
e-mail: jayne_grier@hotmail.com
website:http://www.geocities.com/ghana_gfd
Yaw Serbeh
Librarian, Department of Social Work University of Ghana
e-mail: socialwk@ug.gh
Ebenezer Sorsey
Programme Officer, Helpage, Ghana Accra
e-mail: helpage@ghana.com
Cynthia Sortie
Lecturer, Department of Social Work University of Ghana
e-mail: socialwk@ug.edu.gh
Brenya Wiafe-Akenten
Lecturer, Department of Psychology University of Ghana
e-mail: wab92@hotmail.com
On-line 'Virtual' Participants
We are also joined by participants who, although geographically distant, are able to participate as 'virtual voyagers':
Mhinder Bhopal, University of North London, England
e-mail: m.bhopal@unl.ac.uk
Dr Chris Carter, Leicester University, England
e-mail: cjgcarter@yahoo.co.uk
Professor Stewart Clegg, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
e-mail: s.clegg@uts.edu.au
Ian Combe, University of North London, England
e-mail: i.combe@unl.ac.uk
website: http://www.geocities.com/strat_theory
Alison Corfield, Head of IT, Voluntary Service Overseas, UK
e-mail: mailto:sacorfield@hotmail.com
website: http://www.vso.org.uk/
Mirian Green, University of North London, England
e-mail:mailto:m.green@unl.ac.uk
Professor Michael Hitchcock, University of North London
e-mail: m.hitchcock@unl.ac.uk
website: http://www.unl.ac.uk/celts/iictd1.htm
If you would like to be a 'virtual participant' at this event, please e-mail the convenor. Please state your name and instutional affiliation, e-mail address and website (if applicable) for inclusion in the listing. Please also send brief details of your involvement in this field (eg as a researcher and/or practitioner).
John Hogan, Royal Holloway College, London University
e-mail: john_hogan@talk21.com
website: http://www.geocities.com/unionsonline
Professor Ravi Kanbur, Cornell University, USA
e-mail: sk145@cornell.edu
website:
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/sk145/
Dr Perry Morrison, Outback Digital Network, Northern Territory, Australia
e-mail: perrymorrison@yahoo.com
website: http://www.odn.net.au/
Jeff Turner, University of Manchester & Community
Transport Plan Manager Stockport MBC
e-mail: Jeff.Turner@man.ac.uk
website: http://www.art.man.uk/transres
Universitas Terbuka
(The Indonesian Open Learning University)
P.O. Box 6666, Jakarta 10001, Indonesia
e-mail: amin_zuhairi@hotmail.com
website: http://www.ut.ac.id
Site managed by:
Len Holmes,
Director (Acting), Management Research Centre,
The Business School,
University of North London,
Holloway Road,
London, N7 8DB,
United Kingdom
tel: +44 (0)20 7753 5349
e-mail: mailto:l.holmes@unl.ac.co.uk
website: http://www.re-skill.org.uk/
last updated: 11th September 2001