ICT as a plaatform for multilateral and bilateral cooperation: opportunities and challenges for SANORD. Presentation that I gave at the SANORD Centre Conference entitled Higher Education, Research and Development: Shifting Chalenges and Opportunities, 5-7 December 2007.

1. Prof Derek Keats Executive Director Information & Communication Services The University of the Western Cape Bellville (Cape Town), South Africa [email_address]

2. Collaboration 2.0

4. Cost Value

10. Red : AVOIR nodes Blue : Collaborating partners Yellow : Supporting partners

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18. Coding Connecting Collaborating Implementing New nodes SMME training Services Products AVOIR business Bug fixing Main- tain User require- ments New code Docs AVOIR software development process E- learning Other New develop- ment Support Institutional benefit Mailing list activity Stories & news Testing Developer training Creating shared benefit

23. Ohloh.net

25. Driven by practitioners as well as looking at trends and opportunities The awesome potential of student projects

26. Red : AVOIR nodes Blue : Collaborating partners Yellow : Supporting partners

27. Kabul University lecturer conducting KEWL (ANGEL) training in Kabul

28. KEWL.NextGen e-learning and development workshop in Kalibo, Philippines, as invited by the Philippines Government. In September, Nic Appleby from UWC wenr to Philippines to do set up and training at 6 universities.

29. Red : AVOIR nodes Blue : Collaborating partners Yellow : Supporting partners Washington State University Centre to Bridge the Digital Divide

33. Alliances A network of networks An alliance can be viewed as a network of networks Increasing the networks in the alliance strengthens the alliance and the underlying networks

35. How can SANORD benefit from some of the lessons of collaboration in AVOIR and related initiatives? How can we build synergy with AVOIR and related initiatives so that we create multiple win-win scenarios?

36. It is a very common mistake to focus on technologies Even IT people often do this And often when they don't think they are doing so!

40. Vision Process Process Process Technology Technology Technology Leadership People People People