[Commons-sense] ccSA at the Sangonet Conference

Dear friends,

Creative Commons South Africa will be facilitating a 3 hour session at
Sangonet's Annual Conference in Johannesburg on Wednesday entitled 'A
Creative Commons for South Africa =96 Building Open Communities' (see
http://sangonet.org.za/conference2006/). If you're in Johannesburg
this week, be sure to get to what is promising to be a great event!

Also, as part of the SANGONeT conference, there will be a special
"Research session" on Thursday, 9 March 2006. Sangonet has invited
researchers and students interested in ICT
issues to attend this session from 09h00-11h00, followed by the closing ple=
nary
session.

The conference will be held at the Indaba Hotel in Fourways, Johannesburg.

No registration fee will be required, but Sangonet asks that people
send their details to - in...@sa... - to confirm their
participation.

The list of papers to be presented are enclosed at the end of the message.

I have also attached an invitation for you to the gala dinner on 8 March 20=
06.

For more information about the conference, please visit the conference webs=
ite -
www.sangonet.org.za/conference2006.

Look forward to seeing you at the conference.

Best wishes

Heather.

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Research Track, 9 March 2006, 09h00-11h00, Injabula Room

Keynote paper: "The Lessons of Open Source =96 Participation, Inclusion,
Empowerment"
Prof Tony Brant, School of Information Management,  Leeds Metropolitan
University,
United Kingdom

"A Grounded Study of the Adoption of Communal Computing Facilities among th=
e
Urban Poor"
Wallace Chigona,  Department of Information Systems, University of Cape Tow=
n

"An Investigation of ICTs for Rural Development: The Possible Application o=
f ICT
Project Management Techniques for Sustainable ICT Projects in Rural
Development"
Caroline Pade, Brenda Mallinson and David Sewry, Rhodes University

"Knowledge Work and Internet Use in KwaZulu-Natal AIDS NGOs"
Justine Johnstone, University of Sussex/Kznaidslink

"E-waste: South Africa case study"
Alan Finlay, Open Research

"Marketing Strategy for e-Government Services in South Africa - The Case of=
 the
Cape Gateway Project"
Petro van Ryn, Cape Gateway Project, Centre for e-Innovation, Cape Town

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