ARCHIVED VERSION
  


Information Access for Africa

Odyssey Group Workshop 2001

Map of Africa
Mercator Projection of Africa; see also the Peters Projection

       
 

Aim:

To:

  • explore the potential and affordances of electronic modes of communication for African development
  • identify current and emerging practices in this arena
  • to develop and share skills, techniques and tools for building and maintaining websites
  • seek to develop theoretical perspectives and their practical applications.

Venue:
CSPS Ghana
Centre for Social Policy Studies,
University of Ghana, Legon

 

Outline Programme


Convenor:

Len Holmes (University of North London, England)
e-mail:
During workshop:mailto:lenmholmes@yahoo.co.ukk
Alternate:
l.holmes@unl.ac.uk
website: http://www.re-skill.org.uk/


Participants, Odyssey 2001

Orientation toolkit

About the Odyssey Group

Odyssey Group homepage (http://www.odysseygroup.org.uk/)

Previous events

Upcoming events

 

Websites managed by Odyssey Group members

Other Links

       
 

Virtual journeys
join us via the web, view the websites being developed, field trips undertaken, seminar presentations etc

Sharing Practice
this section of the website is intended to support our partners as they develop their expertise in building their own websites

 

Visitors: please sign the Guestbook
leave a message to let us know your views, ask a question, contribute ideas and information, etc

Read the Guestbook
see what others have said

[Guestbook by TheGuestBook.com]

 

 

Resident Participants:
(alphabetical order)

Professor Nana Apt,
Centre for Social Policy Studies, University of Ghana
e-mail: aptnana@hotmail.com
website: http://www.oocities.org/csps_ghana


Dr Steve Conway,
Aston University, England
e-mail: CONWAYS@pcmail.aston.ac.uk


Dr Dave Crowther,
University of North London, England
e-mail: Davideacrowther@aol.com
website: http://www.oocities.org/davideacrowther


Yaw Dankwa,
Co-ordinator for Information & Publicity, Ghana Red Cross Society

e-mail: yawdankwa8@yahoo.com
website: http://www.oocities.org/dankwagrams


Dr Anne-Marie Greene,
Warwick University, England
e-mail: mailto:greene_anne_marie@hotmail.com
website: http://www.e-collectivism.org.uk/

 

Professor Margaret Grieco,
Napier University, Scotland
e-mail: msgrieco@aol.com
website: http://www.oocities.org/margaret_grieco

 

Len Holmes,
University of North London, England
e-mail: mailto:l.holmes@unl.ac.uk,
website: http://www.re-skill.org.uk/
             http://www.graduate-employability.org.uk/

 

Professor Dian Marie Hosking,
Tilburg University, Netherlands
e-mail:mailto:dhosking@compuserve.com
websites:
http://www.changeworks.org.uk/                   http://www.oocities.org/dian_marie_hosking

Dr Stephen Little,
Open University
e-mail: s.e.little@open.ac.uk
websites: http://www.oocities.org/stephen_e_little
 
http://www.oocities.org/knowledge_links


 

 

Local Partners:
(alphabetical order)

Augustine Kobina Andoh
Senior Organizer, Documentation and Information Centre for Social Policy Studies University of Ghana
e-mail: mdsghana@hotmail.com

Albert Anochie
Director, Social Network for Development
e-mail: sonel23@hotmail.com

Rev. Tony Appiah-Mensah
Project Officer, RESPONSE, Accra

(Mrs) Matilda Asamany
Local guide
email: matildaasamany@hotmail.com

Isaiah Awidi
mailto:atisaiah@hotmail.com

Michelle Banks
Lecturer, Department of Social Work University of Ghana
e-mail: socialwk@ug.edu.gh
Banks_Michele@hotmail.com

Dr Leslie Casely-Hayford
Consultant/ Researcher, Associates for Change, Accra
e-mail: comdev9@yahoo.com
website: http://www.oocities.org/comdev9/

Dr Romanus D. Dinye
Senior Research Fellow, Department of Planning and Housing Research, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi
e-mail:
ustlib@libr.ug.edu.gh

Mrs Rukaya Abowen Dake,
Planned Parenthood Association of Ghana, Accra
e-mail: rukaia@hotmail.com

Felix Y Donkor-Badu
Extension Services Specialist
Community and Water Sanitation Agency,
P.O. Box AH 884 Achimota-Accra
e-mail : fingaro2000@yahoo.com

Sena Gabianu
Retired World Bank Representative, OAU/ECA Accra
e-mail: agabianu@hotmail.com

Yaw Serbeh
Librarian, Department of Social Work University of Ghana
e-mail: socialwk@ug.gh

Ebenezer Sorsey
Programme Officer, Helpage, Ghana Accra
e-mail: helpage@ghana.com

Cynthia Sortie
Lecturer, Department of Social Work University of Ghana
e-mail: socialwk@ug.edu.gh

Brenya Wiafe-Akenten
Lecturer, Department of Psychology University of Ghana
e-mail: wab92@hotmail.com

 

 

On-line 'Virtual' Participants

We are also joined by participants who, although geographically distant, are able to participate as 'virtual voyagers':

 

Mhinder Bhopal, University of North London, England
e-mail: m.bhopal@unl.ac.uk

Dr Chris Carter, Leicester University, England
e-mail: cjgcarter@yahoo.co.uk

Professor Stewart Clegg, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
e-mail: s.clegg@uts.edu.au

Ian Combe, University of North London, England
e-mail: i.combe@unl.ac.uk

website: http://www.oocities.org/strat_theory

Alison Corfield, Head of IT, Voluntary Service Overseas, UK
e-mail: mailto:sacorfield@hotmail.com
website: http://www.vso.org.uk/

Mirian Green, University of North London, England
e-mail:mailto:m.green@unl.ac.uk

Professor Michael Hitchcock, University of North London
e-mail: m.hitchcock@unl.ac.uk
website: http://www.unl.ac.uk/celts/iictd1.htm

 

If you would like to be a 'virtual participant' at this event, please e-mail the convenor. Please state your name and instutional affiliation, e-mail address and website (if applicable) for inclusion in the listing. Please also send brief details of your involvement in this field (eg as a researcher and/or practitioner).

John Hogan, Royal Holloway College, London University
e-mail: john_hogan@talk21.com
website: http://www.oocities.org/unionsonline

Professor Ravi Kanbur, Cornell University, USA
e-mail: sk145@cornell.edu
website:
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/sk145/

Dr Perry Morrison, Outback Digital Network, Northern Territory, Australia
e-mail: perrymorrison@yahoo.com
website: http://www.odn.net.au/

Jeff Turner, University of Manchester & Community Transport Plan Manager Stockport MBC
e-mail: Jeff.Turner@man.ac.uk
website: http://www.art.man.uk/transres

Dr Aminudin Zuhairi,
Universitas Terbuka
(The Indonesian Open Learning University)
P.O. Box 6666, Jakarta 10001, Indonesia
e-mail: amin_zuhairi@hotmail.com
website: http://www.ut.ac.id

Site managed by:
Len Holmes,
Director (Acting), Management Research Centre,
The Business School,
University of North London,
Holloway Road,
London, N7 8DB,
United Kingdom

tel: +44 (0)20 7753 5349
e-mail: mailto:l.holmes@unl.ac.co.uk

website: http://www.re-skill.org.uk/

last updated: 17th October 2001