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Thursday 03 November 2011

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Session Chair: Dr. Cecille Marsh
08:00 08:30 Registration
08:30 09:30 Welcome and background to ReSNeS'2011 (update of e-Skills Institute)
     
09:30 10:00 Tea break
     
   
Session Chair: Prof. Louis Fourie
    TRACK: Economic and Social development
10:00 10:30 E-competencies for sustainability information systems: Zoran Mitrovic
10:30 11:00 e-Skills and social capital: What have we given the rural ICT4D users?: Godwin Kaisara
11:00 11:30 IT and social responsibility: creating awareness amongst first year information systems students: Machdel Matthee, Henk Pretorius, Dawie Maree, Lizette Weilbach, Riana Steyn and Jeanine Reynecke
11:30 12:00 Community participation in ICT4D projects: Where are we getting it wrong?: Flora Mpazanje, Tapfumaneyi Mutenda and Wallace Chigona
     
12:00 12:30

INVITED SPEAKER: Ndivhoniswani Tshidzumba (NEMISA)

TOPIC: Employment readiness

     
12:30 14:00 LUNCH
     
   
Session Chair: Dr. Hossana Twinomurinzi
14:00 14:30

KEYNOTE : Andrew Murray (EC & ECC)

TOPIC: The need for action-based research to support the development of a region and a country

14:30 15:00

An exploratory survey of e-Skills training supllied by small private training institutions in Gauteng: Rennie Naidoo and Hossana Twinomurinzi

     
15:00 15:15 Tea break
     
   
Session Chair: Dr. Colin Thakur
    TRACK: Economic and Social development
15:15 15:45 The role of information and ICT on the livelihoods of micro enterprises: Case of Malawi: Frank Makoza and Wallace Chigona
15:45 16:15 Educator discourses on ICT in Education: Wallace Chigona, Moira Bladergroen, Andy Bytheway, Sanet Cox, Christopher Dumas and Izak Van Zyl
16:15 16:45 Building e-Skills in the developing countries: A South African case study: Zoran Mitrovic, Mymoena Sharif, Wallace Taylor and Harold Wesso
     
16:45 17:30 DISCUSSION

 

Friday 04 November 2011

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Session Chair: Prof. Carina de Villiers
    TRACK: Employment readiness
08:00 08:30 Career choice factors over time: Implications for pre-tertiary e-skills training: Patricia M Alexander and Hossana Twinomurinzi
08:30 09:00 Social media as a tool for improving the pass rate in computer programming for FET students: Godwin Dzvapatsva, Grafton Whyte and Zoran Mitrovic
09:00 09:30 e-Skills for entrpreneurs: a Preliminary study: Riana Steyn
     
09:30 10:00

INVITED SPEAKER: Jonathan Novotny (Change The World)

TOPIC: ICT Literacy and Training for under-resourced communities

     
10:00 10:15 Tea break
     
   
Session Chair: Dr Juliet Stoltenkamp
    TRACK: e-Skills Monitoring and Evaluation
10:15 10:45 Will computer literacy affect telemedicine acceptance among health care workers?: Liezel Cilliers and Stephen Flowerday
     
10:45 11:15

INVITED SPEAKER: Alfie Hamid (CISCO)

TOPIC: e-Skills for Socio-economic Development

11:15 11:45

INVITED SPEAKER: Boni Gantile (Telkom)

TOPIC: Collaborating to improve employment readiness

     
11:45 12:15 DISCUSSION
     
12:15 13:00 LUNCH
     
   
Session Chair: Prof Larry Popkas
13:30 14:30

KEYNOTE: Adam Rabie (Bytes Technology Group)

TOPIC: To be confirmed

     
14:30 15:00 Tea break
     
   
Session Chair: Dr Cecille Marsh
    TRACK: Teaching and Learning
15:30 16:00 e-Learning at FET colleges: The application of a knowledge portal within the ICT department of the College of Cape Town: Anthony Dietrich, Grafton Whyte and Zoran Mitrovic
16:00 16:30 A contribution to the discourse around standardisation of eSkills curriculum design and development of blended approaches: Juliet Stoltenkamp
     
16:30 17:00 CLOSURE

 

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