Rethinking local community involvement in tourism development

Ndivo, R. M., & Cantoni, L. Rethinking local community involvement in tourism development. Annals of Tourism Research (2015), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2015.11.014

Communication and Technology

Cantoni, L., & Danowski, J. A. (Eds.). (2015). Communication and Technology. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/179986 

 

Exploring and Experimenting Cooperative Design

David, S. & Cantoni, L. (2015). Exploring and Experimenting Cooperative Design. In A. Marcus (Ed.), DUXU 2015, Part I, LNCS 9186, pp. 149-156.

Southern Africa Youth in Tourism Conference “Promoting Sustainable Tourism Development through the Involvement and Participation of the Youth”

Very happy and honored to have contributed to the Southern Africa Youth in Tourism Conference “Promoting Sustainable Tourism Development through the Involvement and Participation of the Youth”, which has taken place 23-24 April 2015, in Pointe aux Piments, Mauritius, organized by RETOSA, the Regional Tourism Organisation of Southern Africa.
It has been a great opportunity to meet the Junior Deputy Minister and the Junior Ministers (both current and former ones) of Tourism in the Southern African development Community (SADC), as well as to present WHACY, the World Heritage Awareness Campaign for Youth in SADC.
Hereafter some pictures.

Using Photo-Elicitation to Explore Social Representations of Community Multimedia Centers in Mozambique

Sara Vannini, Isabella Rega, Simone Sala, Lorenzo Cantoni
Using Photo-Elicitation to Explore Social Representations of Community Multimedia Centers in Mozambique
The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries. EJISDC (2015) 67, 8, 1-23
http://www.ejisdc.org/ojs2/index.php/ejisdc/article/view/1297

ICT for Sustainable Tourism in World Heritage Sites. An Overview and Some Cases

Istanbul (Turkey), 7 November 2014: conference Heritage, Tourism and Hospitality. A Heritage of Hospitality and Hospitality for Heritage. My keynote presentation. 

a current and a few upcoming events

• I'm coordinating the Summer School IDEAL Tourism - Information and communication technologies for promotion and development of sustainable tourism around cultural and natural destinations. The case of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites (see a photostory of the first week here)
• I'll do presentations at the following events:
• Vienna (Austria), 11-12 September 2014: ETC 10th TourMIS Users' Workshop & International Seminar on Knowledge Sharing for Tourism Destinations (speaker, together with Nadzeya Kalbaska)
• Lugano (Switzerland), 25 September 2014: Noi e il digitale: sfide e opportunità (panelist)
• Pisa (Italia), 9-12 October 2014: Internet Festival 2014, L'etica e la Rete (panelist)
• Guimarães (Portugal), 27-30 October 2014: ICEGOV 2014, The 8th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (paper, together with Elmira Gazizova and Asta Adukaite)
• Istambul (Turkey), 6-8 November 2014: conference Heritage, Tourism and Hospitality. A Heritage of Hospitality and Hospitality for Heritage (keynote)
• Paris (France), 19-21 November 2014: European Master in InterCultural Communication (EMICC) - Eurocampus 2014 (lecturer) 
• Baden (Switzerland), 27 November 2014: SWISS E-Commerce Conference (speaker)
• Bragança and Mirandela (Portugal), 4-7 December: conference Smart Travel 2014 (keynote)

Congratulations to dr. Sara Vannini and dr. Francesca Fanni!

Congratulations!
see all details here >>>

WHACY - World Heritage Awareness Campaign for Youth in Southern African Development Community (SADC)

WHACY, the World Heritage Awareness Campaign for Youth in Southern African Development Community (SADC) is going to start, make sure you participate in the great photo contest on FB, and subscribe to the campaign!

RE-ACT: social REpresentations of community multimedia centres and ACTions for improvement

with colleagues and friends in Maputo (Mozambique), for a workshop of the project RE-ACT: social REpresentations of community multimedia centres and ACTions for improvement.

 

Tomorrow three panels will run, about policies; trends; and the role of ICT and tourism for development.

Summer school in Lugano (Switzerland)

Summer School IDEAL Tourism
Information and communication technologies for promotion and development of sustainable tourism around cultural and natural destinations. The case of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites
August 25-September 5, 2014
Università della Svizzera italiana (USI Lugano – Switzerland)

Among the instructors: Lorenzo Cantoni, Marcel Danesi, Silvia de Ascanis, Elena Marchiori, Amalia Sabiescu, John Traxler, Sara Vannini, Font Xavier

Organized by the UNESCO chair in ICT to develop and promote sustainable tourism in World Heritage Sites.

Exploring the Meanings of Community Multimedia Centers in Mozambique: A Social Representation Perspective

Exploring the Meanings of Community Multimedia Centers in Mozambique: A Social Representation Perspective
by Isabella Rega, Sara Vannini, Emanuele Fino, Lorenzo CantoniInformation Technologies & International Development
Vol 9, Issue 4 Winter 2013  
AbstractThis article presents extensive research conducted in Mozambique that aims to deeply understand how different social groups understand community multimedia centers (CMCs), which are structures combining a community radio and a telecenter. The social representations theory was adopted to interpret narratives of 231 interviewees from 10 Mozambican provinces. Interviewees included representatives of initiating agencies, local staff members, CMC users (both the radio and telecenter components), users of only the community radio, and community members not using the CMCs. Following the analysis of transcribed interviews, six main clusters were identified, each of them shedding light on a specific understanding of a CMC. These are discussed according to a set of sociodemographic variables. This study suggests that the social representations theory is a valuable framework to provide an integrated view of ICT4D interventions by giving a voice to local perspectives without overlooking the initiating agencies’ expectations.

Changing mindsets: the attitude of pre-service teachers on technology for teaching

Amalia Sabiescu, Izak van Zyl, Marta Pucciarelli, Lorenzo Cantoni, Andy Bytheway, Wallace Chigona, and Stefano Tardini
Changing mindsets: the attitude of pre-service teachers on technology for teaching
In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Information and Communications Technologies and Development: Notes - Volume 2 
(ICTD '13), Vol. 2
ACM, New York, NY, USA,  136-139. 
DOI=10.1145/2517899.2517927 
http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2517899.2517927

The Awareness Campaign about World Heritage in Southern African Development Community: An ICT4D Perspective

IPID 8th International Annual Symposium 2013
9th-10th December 2013 - University of Cape Town, South Africa
 
I'm happy and honored to present a keynote address to the good friends of IPID on the following topic: The Awareness Campaign about World Heritage in Southern African Development Community: An ICT4D Perspective.

IPID is the world’s largest network of postgraduate students doing research in ICT4D and operates through inter alia support to doctoral and master students and increased visibility at international conferences. The network is administered by the Informatics department at Business School, Örebro University and funded by the SPIDER.
See the full program here.

Information and Communication Flows through Community Multimedia Centers: Perspectives from Mozambican Communities

Sara Vannini, Isabella Rega & Lorenzo Cantoni
Information and Communication Flows through Community Multimedia Centers: Perspectives from Mozambican Communities 
Information Technology for Development 2013
DOI:10.1080/02681102.2013.85472 

7th IDIA (International Development Informatics Association) Conference

the program is now online, and proceedings available: Steyn, J., Van der Vyver, A.G. (eds.). (2013). Public and private access to ICTs in developing regions. Proceedings of the 7th International Development Informatics Conference, held in Bangkok, Thailand. ISBN: 978-0-620-58040-3

Make sure you don't miss:

• Reasons of non-use: a study on Mozambican telecenters, by Sara Vannini, Isabella Rega, Simone Sala, & Lorenzo Cantoni
• What do we know about Douala? Access to information in and about the biggest Cameroonian city, by Marta Pucciarelli, Amalia Sabiescu, & Lorenzo Cantoni
• Co-design with Communities. A Reflection on the Literature, by Salomão David, Amalia Sabiescu, & Lorenzo Cantoni
• Participatory re-action: reflecting on a Design-Based Research approach in ICT4D, by Izak Van Zyl, 6 Sara Vannini

some Conferences

Workshop Role of eLearning Applications within the Tourism and Hospitality Sector (held at the 3rd International Conference on Tourism Management and Tourism Related Issues)
Presentations are now available online on www.elearning4tourism.com

EuroCHRIE Conference "Cooperative Education & Research for Hospitality & Tourism Educators"
the program (in pdf) is online
Make sure you don't miss Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) Adoption and Implementation, by Jamie Murphy, Alan Williams, Peter Ryan, Nadzeya Kalbaska, & Lorenzo Cantoni
Barriers and facilitators in implementing knowledge and skills acquired during a training in online communication. The view of hotel managers, by Asta Adukaite, Elena Marchiori, Cristina Fabi, & Lorenzo Cantoni

Prato CIRN Community Informatics Conference 2013
the program is now online. 
Make sure you don't miss Methodologies for sense-making in community-based research, by Amalia Georgiana Sabiescu, Sara Vannini, David Salomão, Lorenzo Cantoni, & Ammar Halabi

Sixth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2013) 
the preliminary program is online.
Make sure you don't miss Changing Mindsets: The Attitude of Pre-service Teachers on Technology for Teaching, by Marta Pucciarelli, Amalia Sabiescu, Izak Van Zyl, Andy Bytheway, Wallace Chigona, Lorenzo Cantoni, & Stefano Tardini; as well as ICTD: Intercultural Communication Technologies for Development, by Amalia Sabiescu and others from USI

launched internet.org

in the Italian version, Samsung was described as Nokia... accuracy still an option?

Making Sense of MOOCs: Musings in a Maze of Myth, Paradox and Possibility

Making Sense of MOOCs: Musings in a Maze of Myth, Paradox and Possibility
by Sir John Daniel
Academic Partnerships. 2012

cattedra UNESCO in Tecnologie dell’informazione e della comunicazione per lo sviluppo e la promozione del turismo sostenibile nei siti del patrimonio mondiale

L'ultimo numero di SQUARE, il magazine dell'Università della Svizzera italiana (USI, Lugano), dedica la storia di copertina alla cattedra UNESCO >>>.