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Impacts of ICTs on Work and Communities Research Symposium, April 2006
Agenda
| 8.30am |
Registration and refreshments |
| 9.00am |
Welcome and overview of the day - Ted Zorn, Waikato Management School, University of Waikato
 Overview (word, 43kb)
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| 9.10am |
The importance of ICT research for New Zealand - Frank March, Ministry of Economic Development |
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| 9.20am |
The Role of Information Communications Technology in Retrieving Local Community - David Thorns and Hazel Ashton, University of Canterbury
One page summary (word, 49kb)
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| 9.40am |
ICT in the Community and Voluntary Sector: A National Survey - Ted Zorn, Waikato Management School
One page summary (word, 49kb)
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| 10.00am |
Designing Information and Communication Technologies for Iwi: What Have We Learnt? - Catherine Iremonger, Waikato Management School
One page summary (word, 49 kb)
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| 10.20am |
Immigrants' and Refugees' Experiences with Computers and the Internet - Kay Weaver, Waikato Management School
One page summary - Immigrants' Uses of ICTs (word, 50kb)
One page summary - ICTs and Refugees (word, 50kb)
One page summary - Samoan Immigrants' Experiences with ICTs (word, 50kb)
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| 10.40am |
Morning tea
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| 11.10am |
On-line Workers Working from Home - David Thorns and Lorraine Leonard University of Canterbury
One page summary (word, 50kb)
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| 11.30am |
ICT use in Rural NZ - Frank Scrimgeour and Stuart Locke, Waikato Management School
One page summary - ICT and Farmers (word, 48kb)
One page summary - E-local government and Small Business (word, 49kb)
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| 11.50am |
ICTs, Productivity, and Growth in the New Zealand Economy - Chris Hector, Waikato Management School
One page summary - ICTs, Productivity and Economic Growth (word, 49kb)
One page summary - ICT Uptake in Different Industries, and its Connection to Rising Wage Inequality (word, 50kb)
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| 12.10pm |
Impact of ICTs on the Relationship between General Practitioners, Specialist Physicians and the DHB - Jenny Gibb, Waikato Management School
One page summary (word, 46kb)
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| 12.30pm |
Future Directions for Research on Impacts of ICTs - Ted Zorn, Waikato Management School
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| 12.45pm |
End of formal programme and light lunch |
The ICT research team's presentation of the projects within this extensive research programme was very well received by the invited audience in Wellington on April 28, 2006.
This event gave the media an opportunity to identify a range of stories, some of which are listed here.
ComputerWorld 03.05.06
Technology allowing more people to work from home, university study finds (word, 28kb)
ComputerWorld 02.05.06
ICT uptake leads to GDP rise (Word, 41kb)
ComputerWorld 02.05.06
Waikato DHB rolls out patient system (Word, 36kb)
The Dominion Post 01.05.06
Non-profit groups slow to take up tech (Word, 24kb)
New Zealand's non-profit organisations don't have the cash or skills to use technology to its full potential, a Waikato University professor says.
The Dominion Post 01.05.06
Investing in IT pays - eventually (Word, 4kb)
Investing in technology can lower productivity in the short term, a Canterbury University study says |
