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Welcome to the International School on Digital Transformation, or ISDT 2010! This is the second annual version of ISDT at the University of Porto in Porto, Portugal.

ISDT is a weeklong discussion among experienced faculty and advanced students about the intersection of research and grassroots innovation in transforming societies through digital technologies.

Today there is the emergence of a new epoch because of ubiquitous digital technologies, particularly mobile devices (phones and smart phones) and the Internet. Information and advanced services built on digital information are transforming civic life, economic development, political participation, the arts, and personal and social relations.

Researchers have a wealth of new phenomena to study, and social innovators have a range of new tools to work with and are constantly inventing new ones.

The purpose of ISDT is to bring together people doing important work with citizens in diverse places internationally, and scholars who are studying such activities, in order to foster dialog about best practices, promising new techniques, experiences, research opportunities and the implications of this work for improving societies around the world.

ISDT is not a formal academic conference, nor is it an informal gathering – it is something in between, with young scholars and more experienced faculty interacting with each other as peers. It is designed to be an intense discussion of research and practical work, but also a launchpad for ideas and collaborations. A goal of ISDT is to create and expand a global network of friends doing innovative work with citizens and digital tools.

We hope you have a productive and enjoyable week in beautiful Porto, Portugal, and that the experience of ISDT 2010 is one that you will share with your friends, colleagues and networks of people around the world.

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-Gary Chapman

Venues for School Events:

Reitoria da U.Porto

Praça Gomes Teixeira

4099-002 Porto



Hotel Eurostars das Artes

Rua do Rosario, 160-164

4050-002 Porto



Restaurant Porto e Virgula

Rua Campo Mártires de Pátria n° 51

4050-366 Porto-Vitória



Restaurant Chez Lapin

Rua dos Canastreiros 2

4050 Porto

Serralves

Rua Dom João de Castro,210

4150-417 Porto



Palácio da Bolsa

Rua Ferreira Borges,

4050-253 Porto



Caves Cálem

Avenida Diogo Leite 344

4400-111 Vila Nova de Gaia



Emergency Contact

If you have an emergency and need to reach someone from the ISDT staff immediately, please call Sónia Pinto at +351 22 2094032 or on her mobile phone at 91 6885340.

If you have a medical or police emergency, please call 1-1-2, which is the Portuguese equivalent of the United States’ 911 service. English-speaking operators are normally available.

Hashtag

We encourage you to share your ISDT experience on social media such as Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and blogs, but please respect the opinions and privacy of your fellow participants. The official tag of ISDT 2010 is “ISDT10.” Please use this tag as more people using the tag make information about our event more discoverable.

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Daily Schedule

Sunday, 25 July

17:00 First meeting, at Hotel Eurostars das Artes

19:00 Board Buses to Ribeira for Welcome Reception

20:00 Welcome Dinner at Restaurant Chez Lapin

Monday, 26 July

9:00 Discussion at Reitoria led by Leslie Shade

10:30 Coffee Break and Internet Assistance

11:30 Student Introductions

12:30 Open time for group collaboration and lunch

16:00 Discussion at Reitoria led by Tanya Notley

17:30 Coffee break

18:00 Discussion at Reitoria led by Marlon Parker

19:30 Break for dinner

20:00 Dinner at Restaurant Porto e Virgula

Tuesday, 27 July

9:00 Discussion at Reitoria led by Michael Gurstein

10:30 Session for student-initiated activity

12:00 Open time for group collaboration and lunch

16:00 Discussion at Reitoria led by Fiorella De Cindio

17:30 Coffee break

18:00 Discussion at Reitoria led by Ming-Chun Lee

19:30 Break for dinner

20:00 Dinner Restaurant Porto e Virgula

Wednesday, 28 July

9:00 Discussion at Reitoria led by Eric Gunderson

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Discussion at Reitoria led by Ademar Aguiar

12:30 Open time for group collaboration and lunch

15:30 Board Buses to Serralves

16:00 Visit to Serralves

18:00 Board Buses to Palácio da Bolsa

18:30 Visit to Palácio da Bolsa

19:30 Dinner at Palácio da Bolsa

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Thursday, 29 July

9:00 Discussion at Reitoria led by Laura Stein

10:30 Session for student-initiated activity

12:00 Open time for group collaboration and lunch

16:00 Discussion at Reitoria led by Daniela Silva and Pedro Markun

17:30 Coffee break

18:00 Discussion at Reitoria led by Karin Wilkins

19:30 Break for dinner

20:00 Dinner at Restaurant Porto e Virgula

Friday, 30 July

9:00 Discussion at Reitoria led by Sunil Abraham

10:30 Session for student-initiated activity

12:00 Open time for group collaboration and lunch

16:00 Student Presentations and wrap-up

18:00 Return to Hotel

19:00 Board Buses to Porto Cálem Cellars

19:30 Visit to Porto Cálem Cellars

20:00 Farewell dinner at Porto Cálem Cellars

23:30 Return to Hotel

Saturday, 31 July

Faculty and students depart

About the Organizers

Artur Pimenta Alves

University of Porto

Artur Pimenta Alves is the director for Colab’s Digital Media Program at the University of Porto. In that role, he oversees both the implementation of programs such as the Summer Institute and the development of digital media graduate programs located in Portugal. In addition to serving as a professor of electrical and computer engineering, he is consultant of the board of directors at INESC Porto. His research interests include digital video and image communication.

Gary Chapman

University of Texas at Austin

In addition to leading the International School on Digital Transformation, Gary Chapman is a senior lecturer at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at UT Austin and the director of the 21st Century Project, a nonprofit research and education program on science and technology policy. He conducted a short course on the Digital Transformation of Organizations at the University of Porto in July 2008. During an earlier visit to Portugal, Chapman presented the lecture “The Wiki State: Transforming the Government with New Internet Tools” at the FCT campus of the New University of Lisbon and the University of Porto.

Karen Gustafson

University of Texas at Austin

Karen Gustafson is the program manager in Austin for the UT Austin | Portugal Digital Media Program. She received her Ph.D. from the Radio-TV-Film department at UT Austin, specializing in telecommunications policy and information society issues. In addition to her work with the International School on Digital Transformation, she serves as a co-curator of the FuturePlaces digital media festival held in Porto each October and coordinates visitor programs in Austin.

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Sónia Pinto

INESC Porto

Sónia Pinto has joined INESC Porto on June 1996 and has been secretary of the Manufacturing Systems Engineering Unit until October 2006. Since October 2006 until now she is Secretary of the Board of Directors at INESC Porto. During this period has also been Secretary Group Coordinator and worked on several Scientific Events Production and Organization (MIC 2001; CARS&FOF2002; ISPIM 2005; MCDA63, MANUFUTURE 2007). She currently works at INESC Porto and also organizes events at an Event Management Company.

Sharon Strover

University of Texas at Austin

Sharon Strover is the director of CoLab’s Digital Media Program for UT Austin. She oversees the organization of the Summer Institute, internship and exchange programs, and the coordination of different Austin-based resources affiliated with CoLab Digital Media. Her interests include telecommunication policy and the information society. Most recently, she has worked in Washington DC with the United States Department of Agriculture on its rural broadband program.

Chris McConnell

University of Texas at Austin

Chris McConnell is a doctoral student in Radio-TV-Film at UT Austin and a research assistant in the UT Austin | Portugal Digital Media Program, where he lends his technical expertise to a variety of projects. His research interests include alternative media, global television distribution, and participatory online media.

Susana Barreto

Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts

Susana Barreto is a graphic designer and a Postdoctoral fellow at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London; currently teaching at Design Faculties in Porto, Portugal. Susana’s background is in graphic communication, and she has worked both as an academic and a design practitioner in Portugal, Macau, and in England. Susana’s research interests are focused around the role of culture in graphic communication, cross-cultural design, globalization, and design ethics.

Faculty Biographies

Sunil Abraham

Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore

Sunil Abraham is the Executive Director of the Centre for Internet and Society based in Bangalore. The Centre for Internet and Society aims to critically engage with concerns of digital pluralism, public accountability and pedagogic practices, in the field of Internet and Society, with particular emphasis on South-South dialogues and exchange. Sunil is a social entrepreneur and Free Software advocate. In 1998 he founded Mahiti, an organization which aims to reduce the cost and complexity of Information and Communication Technology for the Voluntary Sector by using Free Software. He was elected an Ashoka fellow in 1999 to ‘explore the democratic potential of the Internet’. He was granted a Sarai FLOSS fellow in 2003. Between June 2004 and June 2007, Sunil also managed the International Open Source Network a project of United Nations Development Programme’s Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme serving 42 countries in the Asia-Pacific region.

Ademar Aguiar

INESC Porto

Ademar Aguiar is a Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto (FEUP) and is a researcher at INESC Porto, with over 20 years of experience on software development, and specialized on software design, agile methods, wikis, and open collaboration tools.

Beyond the field of software engineering, Ademar is also exploring and applying Web 2.0 and social software to other fields, most importantly, a collaborative and social educational platform for primary schools (6-12 years old), freely available in Portugal, since September 2009.

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Fiorella De Cindio

Department of Informatics and Communication at the University of Milan

1988 Fiorella De Cindio has been an associate professor in the Department of Informatics and Communication at the University of Milano in Italy. After teaching Programming Languages and Distributed Systems Foundations for many years, she now teaches Software Engineering. She has been teaching a class on Virtual Communities since 2002 (which, starting next year, will be called “Internet-based Social Interactions”) with special emphasis on civic issues.

Her research (represented by more than one hundred, national and international, scientific publications) is twofold. On the one hand, it focuses on languages and methods for the analysis, design and implementation of distributed systems, paying special attention to user involvement in the system development process (participatory design). On the other hand, most notably in the last fifteen years, her research focuses on the design and implementation of social interactive computer systems as well as their deployment in real life settings. Within this framework, she dedicated special attention to promoting civic participation and deliberation at the urban level, and to the development of software tools for supporting them.

In this context, she has overseen the field trials of a Secure and Trustable Internet Voting System project. In 2004 she was charged by the Italian Ministry of Innovation to carry out a survey on the state-of-the-art of e-participation technologies in Italy.

Eric Gundersen

Development Seed

Eric is the president and co-founder of Development Seed. Over the past seven years Eric has developed communications strategies and tools for some of the largest international development organizations in the world. He is especially interested in improving information flows and efficiencies within large organizations, better integrating on the ground operations with home bases, and visualizing information in actionable ways.

These focuses have led to the creation of Open Atrium, an open source intranet package that has been downloaded more than 90,000 times since its beta release in July 2009, and to Managing News, a data and news aggregator that powers all kinds of sites, including one visualizing voting irregularities in Afghanistan’s 2009 presidential election.

Eric earned his master’s degree in International Development from American University in Washington, DC, and has dual bachelor’s degrees in Economics and International Relations. He co-founded Development Seed while researching technology access and microfinance in Peru.

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Michael Gurstein

Centre for Community Informatics Research, Development and Training

Dr. Gurstein is currently Executive Director of the Centre for Community Informatics Research, Development and Training (CCIRDT) in Vancouver, Canada; Research Professor in the School of Management at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark); Research Professor in the Faculty of Management at the University of Quebec (Ouatouais); and Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. His edited book Community Informatics: Enabling Communities with Information and Communications Technologies (Idea Group, 2000) provided a focal point for the development of “Community Informatics” as the discipline concerned with enabling communities with Information and Communications Technologies. He is the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Community Informatics () and is the Foundation Chair of the Community Informatics Research Network. He currently has a continuing Advisory relationship with the (Canadian) Northern Indigenous Communities Satellite Network in the creation of its Research Consortium and is an Advisor to the EU funded N4C project looking at telecommunications services for underserved and indigenous people in Northern and Central Europe. He has consulted to the governments of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Nepal and Jordan; to the Ford Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, the UN Development Program, and the European Union; and to Nortel, Mitel, Bell Canada, and Intel among others. His most recent book is What is Community Informatics (and Why Does It Matter)? (Polimetrica, Milan, 2007.) Dr. Gurstein is now actively blogging at Gurstein’s Community Informatics.

Ming-Chun Lee

University of Texas at Austin

Ming-Chun Lee is an assistant professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. He teaches and conducts research in the areas of community technology, e-government, digital democracy, and issues around media policy and public access to information and communication technology in relation to city planning and community development processes. Ming-Chun recently completed an in-depth comparative case study on City of Seattle’s Community Technology Program, where he developed and tested out his asset-based community technology framework. He is currently employing the very same framework and conducting another study on City of Austin’s Grant for Technology Opportunities Program. Ming-Chun also stresses the use of digital technologies in urban design and planning processes and emphasizes the importance of integrating computers into every aspect of urban design and planning education. He has had extensive teaching experience in digital visualization, geographic information system (GIS), and web-based applications at both the University of Washington and the University of Texas at Austin. Ming-Chun received his Ph.D. in urban planning from the University of Washington in 2008.

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Pedro Markun

Jornal de Debates

Pedro Markun is a social media strategist and has been working with collaboration and new technologies for some time now. He is the director of a collaborative newspaper in Brazil, Jornal de Debates. Additionally, he owns a Drupal Workshop specializing in building social networks and is now running Esfera, a think tank on participative democracy, open data and the new public sphere. He is also a member of the House of Digital Culture, a cluster of entrepreneurs in Brazil who are working with different aspects of the digital in the new era.

Tanya Notley

Tactical Technology Collective

Tanya Notley has more than 10 years of research and project management experience working on digital media initiatives with third sector, international development and community-based organizations in Australia, the UK, Nepal, India and Sri Lanka. She is currently employed as Project Lead at Tactical Technology Collective ). Tactical Tech is an international NGO working at the point where rights advocacy meets technology. Most recently, Tanya led Tactical Tech’s successful project, “10 tactics for turning information into action” (). In the past, Tanya has coordinated radio outreach programs in Australia and Sri Lanka.

In 2008 Tanya completed her PhD in the Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology. Her PhD examines the way young people’s Internet use changes the way they participate in society and considers the role of government policies in supporting Internet use capabilities. She has published book chapters and journal articles on digital media, as well as training manuals on digital media production.

Marlon Parker

Cape Peninsula University of Technology

Marlon Parker is a Social Entrepreneur, founder of the Reconstructed Living Lab (RLabs) and an Information Technology Lecturer at Cape Peninsula University of Technology. An invited speaker in the areas of Social Entrepreneurship, ICT for Community Development and Social Innovation, he is also a guest lecturer at a number of international universities including Aalto University, University of Amsterdam Business School, UCT Graduate School of Business, University of Rhodes and University of Southampton. His passion for community development has influenced his research interests and he is currently working on a project focusing on a community-driven model for social innovation. Marlon was also the co-founder of a mobile counseling service offering support in substance abuse and HIV/AIDS to tens of thousands of people throughout South Africa.

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Leslie Regan Shade

Concordia University

Leslie Regan Shade is an Associate Professor at Concordia University in the Department of Communication Studies. Her research focus since the mid-1990s has been on the social, policy, and ethical aspects of information and communication technologies (ICTs), with particular concerns towards issues of gender, youth, globalization, and political economy. The research contributions straddle the line between academic and non-academic audiences, including policymakers and non-profit groups. She is the author of Gender and Community in the Social Construction of the Internet (Peter Lang, 2002), co-editor of Feminist Interventions in International Communication (with Katharine Sarikakis, Rowman & Littlefield, 2008), two volumes in Communications in the Public Interest (edited with Marita Moll, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives) and with Moll, For Sale to the Highest Bidder: Telecom Policy in Canada (CCPA, 2008), and editor of Mediascapes: New Patterns in Canadian Communication, Third Ed. (Nelson Canada, 2010). Articles have also appeared in Continuum, The Gazette, Canadian Journal of Communication, and Government Information Quarterly. She has a PhD degree from McGill University and MLIS from UCLA and a BA in Communications-Visual Arts from UCSD. For more information see .

Daniela Silva

Esfera

Daniela Silva is a researcher for politics, transparency and technologies issues. She studies how transparency changes on a networked public sphere, becoming an important value for open governments and allowing many possibilities of political participation through the networks. She is a University of Texas at Austin and Knight Center for The Journalism in the Americas alumna, and a facilitator of one of the first P2P University courses in Portuguese, about Civic Hacking.

Daniela is also a co-founder of Esfera, a think tank based in São Paulo, Brazil, that wants to see the same revolution that is now changing communications happen in politics. Esfera is not only trying to bring open government culture to local and federal governments, it wants to engage groups in the society to be part of a new context of openness and participation by civic hacking (parsing, collecting, using and remixing government data on the web, as an example). To achieve these goals, Esfera members organize Transparency HackDays, putting developers, designers, journalists and politicians together to think and produce apps based on open government databases; and they are setting up a community of practice to discuss and create mashups based on government data.

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Laura Stein

University of Texas at Austin

Laura Stein is an Associate Professor in the Radio-Television-Film Department at the University of Texas at Austin. She writes about alternative and activist media, political communication, and communication law and policy. Her books include two co-edited volumes, Making Our Media: Global Initiatives Toward a Democratic Public Sphere (examining grassroots attempts to transform the policy and practice of information and communication media around the world) and Speech Rights in America: The First Amendment, Democracy and the Media (exploring the failure of neoliberal understandings of speech rights to protect democratic communication in the media).

Karin Wilkins

University of Texas at Austin

Karin Gwinn Wilkins (PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1991) is a Professor with the Department of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas at Austin, as well as the Associate Director for the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Her research focuses on global communication, development and social change. Her most recent book is Home/Land/Security: What We Learn about Arab Communities from Action-Adventure Films (Lexington Books, 2009). Some of her work can be found in ReDeveloping Communication for Social Change (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000), Communication Theory, Media, Culture & Society, Journal of Communication, International Journal of Public Opinion Quarterly, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Media Development, Media Asia, Journal of International Communication, Peace Review, and the Asian Journal of Communication, among other venues.

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