con gli studenti del Master in Gestione dei Media

a very merry Christmas and a great 2014!

by all the persons from eLab, NewMinE, webatelier.net and the UNESCO chair in ICT to develop and promote sustainable tourism in World Heritage Sites

e-Learning courses on travel destinations. An exploratory study on Indian travel agents perspective

Kalbaska, Nadzeya and Cantoni, Lorenzo
e-Learning courses on travel destinations. An exploratory study on Indian travel agents perspective
In: Fountain, Joanna (Editor); Moore, Kevin (Editor)
CAUTHE 2013: Tourism and Global Change: On the Edge of Something Big
Christchurch, N.Z.: Lincoln University, 2013: 395-399
ISBN: 9780864762832

The Piacenza, Bettola and Cremona Tramway Company (Limited). La sua preistoria nel dibattito sui media piacentini tra 1878 e 1879

Lorenzo Cantoni
The Piacenza, Bettola and Cremona Tramway Company (Limited). La sua preistoria nel dibattito sui media piacentini tra 1878 e 1879 
Bollettino Storico Piacentino. Rassegna semestrale di storia, lettere e arte fondata da Stefano Fermi
Anno CVIII - Fascicolo 2° Luglio-Dicembre 2013, pp. 296-315

the class of Master in International Tourism (will miss you!)

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

great presentations by the Master students of Online Communication Design !

The 2013 Traveler

"The 2013 Traveler": a very interesting research published by Google.

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.

LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Lugano

One stop shop website on LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® research and development being done at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI Lugano, Switzerland)
www.seriousplay.ch

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 

La giornata dell’innovazione 2013: innovazione tra turismo, audiovisivo e sport

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

Being in the users' shoes: Anticipating experience while designing online courses

the paper is already availble online (before inclusion in an issue):
Rapanta, C. and Cantoni, L. (2013), Being in the users' shoes: Anticipating experience while designing online courses. British Journal of Educational Technology. doi: 10.1111/bjet.12102
the paper has elicited a very interesting response by John Cowan:
Cowan, J. (2013), Being in the users' shoes: Is there maybe another way?. British Journal of Educational Technology. doi: 10.1111/bjet.12104
see also our response to it:
Rapanta, C. and Cantoni, L. (2013), A reply to “Being in the users' shoes: Is there maybe another way?”. British Journal of Educational Technology. doi: 10.1111/bjet.12104_2

La missione accademica al tempo della cultura digitale

L. Cantoni, La missione accademica al tempo della cultura digitale, in Massimiliano Padula (ed.), La fede comunicata. Riflessioni teologico-pastorali, Lateran University Press, Roma 2013, pp. 133-144

Erik Ravelo. Provocazione o informazione? Quali sono i limiti nella comunicazione per immagini?

Erik Ravelo. Provocazione o informazione? Quali sono i limiti nella comunicazione per immagini?Martedi 22 ottobre 2013 - ore 18.00
Studio Foce - via Foce 1 - 6900 Lugano
L'incontro sara introdotto dal presidente di Pubblicita Svizzera, sezione Svizzera italiana, Fabio Balmelli.
Seguira una discussione a cui partecipano:
... Lorenzo Cantoni, Decano della Facolta di scienze della comunicazione, USI - Lugano;
... Michele Amadò, Laboratorio cultura visiva, SUPSI - Lugano;
... Enzo Lucibello, Amministratore delegato Mediamarkt Grancia.
Moderatore: Alfonso Tuor, giornalista.

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?

White Paper on LEGO®SERIOUS PLAY®. A state of the art of its applications in Europe

Elisabetta Frick, Stefano Tardini, Lorenzo Cantoni, White Paper on LEGO®SERIOUS PLAY®. A state of the art of its applications in Europe, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano (Switzerland), August 2013