Meraka, the African Institute for Advanced Computing, of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (South Africa) recently hosted Larry Stillman to help develop research relationships in the development of social technologies for disadvantaged communities through their innovative Digital Doorways project.

The story can be seen on their website.

27 October 2008, Monash Centre, Prato, Italy

This will be a one-day academic conference where we will be joined by our European colleagues and community practitioners. The conference will be funded in part by a strategic initiatives grant that we were successful in securing for 2008.

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Friday 11 July 2008.

A workshop jointly sponsored by the Asian Business and Economics
Research Unit in the Business and Economics Faculty and the Centre for
Community Networking Research in the Faculty of Information Technology.

The workshop will be at the Monash city premises 30 Collins Street.

The morning will be an academic workshop where researchers will
present papers about their projects, and in the afternoon community

Consul General in Florence for China Mr Gu Honglin, Prefect of Prato Ms Eleonora Maffei, Australian Ambassador in Rome Ms Amanda Vanstone, President of the Province of Prato Mr Massimo Logli and Director of Monash Prato Dr Annamaria Pagliaro.

Prato in Italy is famous for producing clothing for high-fashion labels. Many of these items of clothing are produced in factories by Chinese workers. In fact Prato boasts one of the strongest Chinese communities in Italy, perhaps even in Europe.