[E-conf.] Knowledge and Info. Systems of the Urban Poor in Developing Countries

["Irfan Khan" <khania@super.net.pk>]

From:           	Julie Woodfield <J.Woodfield@lboro.ac.uk> 


E- CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT 

This is an invitation to subscribe to an electronic conference on the 
topic of 'Knowledge and Information Systems of the Urban Poor in 
Developing Countries'.  This is part of the research study undertaken 
by ITDG http://www.oneworld.org/itdg/ and funded by DFID, on ways in 
which the information systems and knowledge of poor urban dwellers 
can be strengthened.  

It is hoped that this e-mail conference will allow fellow 
researchers, policy makers, donors, people working with poor 
communities, teachers or trainers, communications specialists and 
other people interested in issues around poor people's information 
needs, access and knowledge acquisition, to provide inputs into the 
current research phase and that it will also be of benefit to 
subscribers' own work.  We would be particularly interested if you 
could help to identify specific activities or projects which have 
helped to inform poor people better or to strengthen their 
information systems.  We would like to write 
up the best examples of these and disseminate them more widely as 
part of 
this project. 


The conference will run over ten weeks, in five two weekly sessions 
which will aim to consider the following themes: 


1. Where and How Do Poor People Get Information? 
(22/1/2001 to 4/2/2001)  


2. The Role of Information in the Development of Settlements and 
Livelihoods (5/2/2001 to 18/2/2001) 


3. Modelling / Analysing Information Flows 
(19/2/2001 to 4/3/2001) 


4. Strengthening Systems and Processes 
(5/3/2001 to 18/3/2001) 


5. Outstanding Issues and Conclusions 
(19/3/2001 to 30/3/2001) 



More detailed information on these themes and further background to 
the project is available in the conference background paper attached. 
[posted separately] 



WHAT TO DO NEXT? 


To subscribe online, go to 
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?SUBED1=urban-poor-info&A=1. 
Complete your email address and your name only, then choose 'join the 
list'. 


To subscribe by email, send the following message to 
jiscmail@jiscmail.ac.uk 


join URBAN-POOR-INFO FIRSTNAME LASTNAME 


(replacing FIRSTNAME LASTNAME with your own names). 


You will be sent an automated Welcome message, with further details 
and instructions. 


Julie Woodfield 
E-conference editor