WikiEducator User Page Expo (UPE) Winner for October 2014: David Leeming
Ramesh Sharma
The WikiEducator User Page Expo ("UPE" to its friends) is an ongoing event to acknowledge WikiEducator user pages that are particularly informative, innovative, visually appealing, or otherwise just plain clever.
UPE Award 4 October 2014
David Leeming is a consultant in ICT for development and education based in Honiara, Solomon Islands. In addition to being an experienced project manager and workshop facilitator, he specialises in ICT for education, educational technology and sustainable rural development. He has worked as the Technical Advisor to the Solomon Islands People First Network, and more lately on the delivery of education services to remote areas, as manager of the DLCP project establishing distance learning centres connected with VSAT broadband Internet in Solomon Islands. The People First Network (PFnet) is a rural connectivity project consisting of an HF radio email network of "email stations" managed by remote and rural communities. Applications of information sharing and knowledge building are run over the network, including distance learning, financial and commodities, government, health and other information. Further, he has also been involved in to design an Oceania implementation of the “One Laptop per Child” (OLPC, popularly known as the “$100 laptop”) programme. He has facilitated workshops on national ICT strategy building, working with stakeholders in Solomon Islands and PNG.
Let's congratulate David for being the UPE winner for October'2014!
with best wishes,
Dr. Nellie Deutsch and Ramesh Sharma
Pankaj Khare
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Indira Gandhi National Open University
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Sarita Kumar
Associate Professor
Acharya Narendra Dev College
University of Delhi
India
David Leeming
Hi,
I am quite honoured by this but surprised too, as the page is quite old and I have not updated it for some years. It’s a good reminder to do so!. Wikieducator still retains an essential place in any engagement I have in regard to digital literacy and the tutorial is still very useful and appreciated by people I have worked with especially teachers. In this part of the world we still have appalling connectivity, with almost all rural schools in Solomon islands unconnected; those that are struggle with some of the highest bandwidth prices in the world; even in Honiara it is not true to say that broadband is widely available if you go by any contemporary definition. I pay USD 420 per month for a 256 connection – add on purchasing power to the equation and for most the Internet is way out of reach beyond a meagre allocation of megabytses in their mobile phone top-up, quickly gobbled up by Facebook. The dominant telco hasn’t changed their ADSL prices since at least 5 years or more, and the authorities seem to be dominated by neoliberal ideologies, the consequences of the resulting uneven market response means that most school children still go through their entire school careers without acquiring any digital literacies. However, even with these challenges we see some light, a new satellite Internet company Kacific is launching a Ka-band HTS satellite in a couple of years that will bring cable-like connectivity in terms of prices to any inhabited island in the region, which should shake things up tremendously in favour of the digitally marginalised. So my point is that many educators and learners have not yet had the chance to benefit from collaboration and creativity tools such as Wikieducator, this will change and with benefits of scale that may mean content communities take on critical mass and educational institutions will begin to engage with the technology seeing it as more widely applicable. So I remain a huge fan of WE.
David Leeming
Solomon Islands Rural Link
P.O.Box 652 Honiara, Solomon Islands
+677 7476396 (m) +677 24419 (h)