SPACE conducted a two day workshop on ICT and New Media for NGOs on 29-30 October 2010 at Thiruvananthapuram. The workshop was organised with the cooperation of KAVAL, a network of NGOs in Kerala. Members from 12 organisations participated in the workshop.
EdICT2010, an international conference on enabling access to education through ICT is being held at New Delhi from 27 to 29 October, 2010 by Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) in cooperation with the Global Initiative for Inclusive ICT (G3ICT), a flagship advocacy organization of the UN Global Alliance on ICT and Development (UN-GAID), the International telecommunications Union (ITU), Digital Empowerment Foundation, SPACE and the Deafway Foundation.
A booklet which gives an overview of free software applications and tools has been published by SPACE. Both English and Malayalam versions of the booklet are available for download on our website.
SPACE published a report of its study conducted among students of arts and science colleges in kerala to assess their access to ICT. The study conducted among 200 students, has identified a large gender disparity in ICT use, despite high computer literacy among students. The socio-cultural ethos of Kerala makes Internet out of bounds for girls, unless they are from high income groups who can afford connectivity at home. Although Internet cafes have proliferated the landscape of Kerala, these largely remain male domains.
SPACE will organise a two day workshop on ICT and New Media for civil society organisations (CSOs) in Kerala from March 5 2010. The workshop aims to enable CSOs to leverage their activities with the use of ICT and New Media tools. Venue: Christ Nagar School, Kowdiar, Thiruvananthapuram.
A three-day workshop on LaTeX and Scilab will be held at UC College, Aluva from 25 February 2010. The workshop is jointly organised by IIT Bombay, SPACE, Thiruvananthapuram and Bhaskaracharya Prathisthana Institute, Pune.
The workshop will consist of lectures and hands-on sessions in LaTeX and Scilab. LaTeX is a document preparation system that can produce good-looking documents without much difficulty, especially technical documents that contain equations. Its popularity is increasing in Kerala, and it is now part of the Mathematics curriculum of Calicut University.
The International SciPy Conference was inaugurated by Dr Travis Oliphant, Vice President of Enthought Inc. (USA) at Trivandrum on 12 December 2009.
FOSSEE, IIT Bombay and SPACE will organise an international conference on Scientific Computing with Python (Scipy.in 09) from December 12 to 17 at Technopark, Thiruvananthapuram.
For online registration: http://scipy.in
