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DIGITAL LIFE CONSORTIUM MEETING
OCTOBER 29-30, 2003

DIGITAL NATIONS CONSORTIUM MEETING
OCTOBER 30-31, 2003

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30

4:30 Reception
5:00 Welcome
Walter Bender
5:15

Digital Nations Overview
Sandy Pentland and Mitchel Resnick

5:30 E4P
Rodrigo Arboleda
5:45 Digital Nations Colombia
Fernando Chaparro
6:00

INFOPLAZAS from Senacyt
Luis Cisneros

6:15 Break
6:30 INCAE
Ana María Majano
6:45 CIENTEC Foundation
Alejandra Leon
7:00

TELMEX and CCD
Javier Elguea

7:15 Bradesco Foundation and BIT
Nivaldo Marcusso
7:30 Digital Nations Sponsors Dinner

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31

8:00 Breakfast
8:30 Welcome and review of the agenda
Eleonora Badilla-Saxe
8:45

The City That We Want
David Cavallo

9:00 The Learning Independence Networks
Bakhtiar Mikhak
9:15

Playful Inventions and Explorations
Diane Willow

9:30 Low Cost Computing for Rural Health Care: From the Lab to the Real World
Vikram Kumar, Vishwanath Anantraman and Tarjei Mikkelsen
9:45 Technology-supported youth led social change: the experience of the Young Activists Network
Leo Burd
10:00 Break and informal discussions
10:30

The Marketplace of Ideas
Juan Carlos Barahona

10:45 Transforming School from the Inside Out
Claudia Urrea
11:00 GoGo Board: Augmenting computational materials
Arnan (Roger) Sipitakiat
11:15 A Road to Universal Broadband Connectivity
Amir Hasson
11:30 Designing Technologies for the World
Richard Fletcher
11:45 The Intel Computer Clubhouse Network (Spanish Version)
Patricia Díaz
12:00 Lunch and informal discussions
1:00 Concurrent Sessions:

-In room 054:
Alex (Sandy) Pentland in the course Developmental Entrepreneurship
http://courses.media.mit.edu/2003fall/de/

-In The Garden
Bakhtiar Mikhak,The Learning Independence Networks

-In The Pond:
David Cavallo, The City that We Want

-In the Cube:
Mitchel Resnick The Computer Clubhouse and PIE Networks

-And also in the Cube:
Eleonora Badilla-Saxe, Digital Nations


 
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