Third Annual LINC Symposium

LINC (Learning International Networks Consortium), will hold its third annual symposium at MIT on October 27th and 28th, 2005. LINC is an MIT-affiliated program that works with educational leaders in developing countries to facilitate and enhance the delivery of quality higher education through distance education and e-learning technologies. At the annual conferences, rectors from virtual universities in Africa, Algeria, China, Israel, Jordan, Mexico, Pakistan and Syria, (among others), have had the opportunity to exchange ideas with academicians and researchers not only from MIT but from around the world who are interested in the use of ICT's for education and social development.

For more information see the LINC site
or send email to: lincinquiries@mit.edu.

A partial list of speakers include:

• Sisavanh Boupha - Department of Science and Technology, Laos
• In-Joo Chin - Inha University, Korea
• Royal Colle - Cornell University, U.S.A.
• Kuzvinetsa Peter Dzvimbo, African Virtual University, Kenya
• Peter Froehler - UNCTAD, Switzerland
• Matthew Herren & Maciej Sudra - Eduvision, Kenya
• Philip Hui - Living Knowledge Communities, Hong Kong
• Feiyu Kang - Tsinghua Univ. School of Continuing Education, China
• Carlos Delgado Kloos - Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
• Naveed Malik - Virtual University of Pakistan, Pakistan
• Cliff Missen - WiderNet Project, Univ. of Iowa, U.S.A.
• Sandy Pentland - MIT Media Lab, U.S.A. - Laura Ruiz Perez - Monterrey Tec Virtual University,
  Mexico
• Sean Rowland - Hibernia College, Ireland
• Nabil Sabry - Universite Francaise d'Egypte, Egypt
• Jaime Sanchez - University of Chile, Chile
• Milad Sebaaly - Universal Knowledge Solutions, United Arab Emirates
• Honorio Silva - Pfizer Inc., U.S.A.
• Douglas Wilde - Stanford University, U.S.A.