Matti Sinko sent a recorded lecture to us on-line from the UN-ECA, UN African headquarters in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia. I didn't know that years there have 13 months, and that clocks show their own time.
Africa is a big continent, and there is many countries, but in general people there have gotten themselves mobile phones, but there is still areas out of network. As well as wealth connectivity differs from area to area, and specially between urban and rural areas.
A few terms that came up and that I want to present are: "Leapfrogging" and "Fast-tracking". "Leapfrogging" means that countries jump over technology generations, like going directly to mobile phones, instead of first installing land lines. "Fast-tracking" means speeding up certain developments to accelerate economic growth. Both held back by the level of education, and it takes time to reform an education system and implicate it. Coveredge of primar education is relatively good, but secondary and tertiary education lacks resources. Also the lifelong learning should be looked into, as also there ITC could provide help.
Two videos about ITC in Africa:
The World Bank - Towards 2020: ICT in Action in Rwanda
Africa Goes Digital
References & further reading:
-UN 2000. Millennium Declaration and The Millenium Development Goals.
-UNCTAD 2010. Information economy report. 2010.
-UNECA / ITCA 2010. African e-Learning Initiative
-UNESCO. 2000. Education for All.
-Fredriksson, Torbjörn 2010. UNCTAD’s Information Economy report 2010 launch. Powerpointpresentation. http://www.unctad.org
-ITU 2010. ITU World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators database.
-Nokia 2009. Affordable mobile communications, TCO study 2008. Nokia - Expanding Horizons
Links:
Kiva - loans that change lives
Measuring-ict.unctad.org - Measturing the information society
lördag 18 december 2010
söndag 5 december 2010
On: Workshop: Transportation
Antti Ruotoistenmäki from Lifelong Learning Institute Dipoli, Aalto University gave a workshop in transportation.
We pared up to come up with ideas for new personal transport. My group chose the question private car vs. shared car and came up with Super carpool, a on-line application and a company that takes care of rental cars, electric cars. The idea would be that everyone having a profile in the application could offer their car for carpooling or ask for a ride, if no-one that wants to go the same distance has a car one person would pick up a company car and then the other people for the ride. The service could be used both for daily commuting and work- and leisure trips, it would be geographically fixed, but could span a network over many countries and in multiple languages, so that also visitors to a country could use it. The users would pay by km through the application and the ones offering their cars would get discount for less polluting cars.
Gimme a ride! There are cars driving here and there all the time. And quite some uses of them have been invented. Hiching a ride has decreased in popularity as cars have become more common, but it's still possible to get anywhere you want, if you dare to try. In some places any car is a black taxi, in others drivers look for possible passengers. Some people that go the same way to work might carpool, The amount of rides parents give their children should not be underestimated, take me to trainings take me to school.
Hichwiki - How to hichhike
Mitfahrgelegenheit - Arrange a ride, big in Germany
Carpoolworld - Get around
CityCarClub - Laina-auto pääkaupunkiseudulta
Aalto EcoMobility Initiative - Liikkumistarpeen vähentäminen
We pared up to come up with ideas for new personal transport. My group chose the question private car vs. shared car and came up with Super carpool, a on-line application and a company that takes care of rental cars, electric cars. The idea would be that everyone having a profile in the application could offer their car for carpooling or ask for a ride, if no-one that wants to go the same distance has a car one person would pick up a company car and then the other people for the ride. The service could be used both for daily commuting and work- and leisure trips, it would be geographically fixed, but could span a network over many countries and in multiple languages, so that also visitors to a country could use it. The users would pay by km through the application and the ones offering their cars would get discount for less polluting cars.
Gimme a ride! There are cars driving here and there all the time. And quite some uses of them have been invented. Hiching a ride has decreased in popularity as cars have become more common, but it's still possible to get anywhere you want, if you dare to try. In some places any car is a black taxi, in others drivers look for possible passengers. Some people that go the same way to work might carpool, The amount of rides parents give their children should not be underestimated, take me to trainings take me to school.
Hichwiki - How to hichhike
Mitfahrgelegenheit - Arrange a ride, big in Germany
Carpoolworld - Get around
CityCarClub - Laina-auto pääkaupunkiseudulta
Aalto EcoMobility Initiative - Liikkumistarpeen vähentäminen
torsdag 2 december 2010
On: E-Lecture: Transportation
Dr Khan Rahaman, Assistant Professor, Urban and Rural Planning Discipline
Khulna University, Bangladesh. The lecture on transportation was a on-line lecture live from Canada, and can be rewatched from this link. In the lecture he compared transport solutions of Asia, Europe and North America. He is very keen on developing public transport and doesn't own a car, even if it makes it hard to get around in Canada.
Some main points about urban transportation planning:
1) Etablishing a vision, what does the community want
2) Understanding, how to reach the vision
3) Assessing opportunities and limitations, how to reach the system performance
4) Identifying short- and long-term consequences, what are the different alternatives
5) Relating the different alternatives, likns between goals, objectives and so on
6) Presenting the plan, to decision makers
7) Helping decision makers, to establish priorities and develop an investment program
(Urban Transportation Planning, a decision-oriented approach / Michael D. Meyer, Eric J. Miller. New York, 2001)
Urban transport planning is about all means of getting around in the city. Passanger cars are responsible for 75% of passanger kilometres travelled, and less than 10% of journeys are made by pyblic transport and less than 5% by bike. As car occupancy is close to one it means that cities fill up with cars, a need for sustainable urban transport planning is awakening.
Sustainable Urban Transport focuses on access and mobility rather than the movement of vehicles. It provides access for all groups of the society, keeps within the environmental carrying capacity and is affordable to both providers and users. Sustainable Urban Transport allows generation of economic growth, without compromising economic and social dimensions, to a point beyond repair. Sustainable urban transport is a pre-condition for improved quality of life and the SUT sustems combine technological and non-technological measures to enhance the sustainability of transport systems.
I think it's hard to compete with the private cars, but the struggle is still easier in the tight urban areas where parking is a much bigger issue than on the countryside, where distances are lond and you can park anywhere. As looking for parking takes time walking or biking short distances is much handier. Walking and biking can also be combined with public transport. The questions are how far would you walk and do you want to own a bike or rather borrow one on the fly?
Khulna University, Bangladesh. The lecture on transportation was a on-line lecture live from Canada, and can be rewatched from this link. In the lecture he compared transport solutions of Asia, Europe and North America. He is very keen on developing public transport and doesn't own a car, even if it makes it hard to get around in Canada.
Some main points about urban transportation planning:
1) Etablishing a vision, what does the community want
2) Understanding, how to reach the vision
3) Assessing opportunities and limitations, how to reach the system performance
4) Identifying short- and long-term consequences, what are the different alternatives
5) Relating the different alternatives, likns between goals, objectives and so on
6) Presenting the plan, to decision makers
7) Helping decision makers, to establish priorities and develop an investment program
(Urban Transportation Planning, a decision-oriented approach / Michael D. Meyer, Eric J. Miller. New York, 2001)
Urban transport planning is about all means of getting around in the city. Passanger cars are responsible for 75% of passanger kilometres travelled, and less than 10% of journeys are made by pyblic transport and less than 5% by bike. As car occupancy is close to one it means that cities fill up with cars, a need for sustainable urban transport planning is awakening.
Sustainable Urban Transport focuses on access and mobility rather than the movement of vehicles. It provides access for all groups of the society, keeps within the environmental carrying capacity and is affordable to both providers and users. Sustainable Urban Transport allows generation of economic growth, without compromising economic and social dimensions, to a point beyond repair. Sustainable urban transport is a pre-condition for improved quality of life and the SUT sustems combine technological and non-technological measures to enhance the sustainability of transport systems.
I think it's hard to compete with the private cars, but the struggle is still easier in the tight urban areas where parking is a much bigger issue than on the countryside, where distances are lond and you can park anywhere. As looking for parking takes time walking or biking short distances is much handier. Walking and biking can also be combined with public transport. The questions are how far would you walk and do you want to own a bike or rather borrow one on the fly?
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