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The growing demand for user-centered, sustainable, collaborative and ecosystem-aware ICT4D programs and projects brings requirements for education of a new generation ICT4D professionals. This paper presents a post-graduate field-based course in ICT4D that teaches how to co-create and deploy community-centered ICT services. The course has been jointly organized and deployed by Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam and Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) for a mixed group of computer science, information science and artificial intelligence students from VU and UNIMAS. The course design, experiences, outcomes and evaluation are presented in this paper.
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The authors are grateful to Associate Professor Dr. Johari Abdullah, Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology from UNIMAS and Frans Snijders, Director of the International Office of VU Amsterdam for their great support to the project. We thank the community leader and inhabitants of Kampung Pinggan Jaya for their hospitality and collaboration. We thank the students Amir AziziMusa, Aron van Groningen, Ludwig Hoon, Kuan Huiggy, Giorgi Kikolashvili, Allard Oelen, Hameedat Omoine, Judith Schermer, Anastasios Sidiropoulos, Deva Ramakrishnan, Linh Tran, Chris Valladares, Nip van Wees for their work. We thank Leeuw van Moerkerken for filming and producing the video clips of the project. This project is part of the W4RA research program.
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Bon, A. et al. (2019). Community-Centered, Project-Based ICT4D Education in the Field. In: Nielsen, P., Kimaro, H. (eds) Information and Communication Technologies for Development. Strengthening Southern-Driven Cooperation as a Catalyst for ICT4D. ICT4D 2019. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 552. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19115-3_32
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