University Collaboration for Digital Inclusion

Managing trusted information and free access to this information are the core components of the University collaboration for digital inclusion.

The representatives from the participating Universities commit to
(i) address digital inclusion as part of their academic work,
(ii) have their research focus on contributions to the SDGs
(iii) contribute with trusted and peer-reviewed information, addressing e.g. education, health, agriculture, financial inclusion,
(iv) establish workshops and conferences on digital inclusion and become thought leaders,
(v) contribute with knowledge and information to the public decision making,
(vi) form a global alliance on digital inclusion, and
(vii) contribute to developing global standards to meet the SDG goals.

Participating Researchers World-Wide

	Universities in Algeria (DZ)
	Bentenbi Chaibdra Tani Associate Professor, University of Oran1	Internet & Web Behavior, digital Transformation

	Universities in Australia (AU)
	Ryan Ko Prof. at the School of ITEE; Chair and Director of UQ Cyber Security The University of Queensland, Australia	Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, User Data Control, Data Provenance
	Amelia Radke Research Fellow at the Centre for Policy Futures The University of Queensland	digital human rights, criminal justice, healthcare services, Indigenous Australia

	Universities in Benin (BJ)
	Alix Frank Rodrigue Idohou Ass. Professor and Head of Forest MethodsNational University of Agriculture and Laboratory of Biomathematics and Forest Estimations Universite D'Abomey-Calavi	Biodiversity Informatics, Biodiversity Informatics, GIS, Climate changes and Food Security

	Universities in Germany (DE)
	Andrea S. Winkler Professor of Global Health, Co-director Center for Global Health, School of Medicine Technical University of Munich	Global Digital Health, Health Promotion, Global Neurology/Mental Health, Non-communicable diseases, Neglected Tropical Diseases, One Health

	Universities in Ecuador (EC)
	Carlos Rodríguez Arrieta Director at CR Ciencia & Robótica ESPE University	Digital Inclusion, STEM education, Robotics

	Universities in Ethiopia (ET)
	Gemechu Waktola Olana Assistant Professor Addis Ababa University	Human Capital, Workforce Development

	Addisalem Genta Assistant Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Institute of Technology Ambo University,	Digital Inclusion, digital literacy, key performance indicators (KPI), resilient communities, decent work, national goals aligned with the SDGs, inclusive access, distributed network architectures

	Habtamu Alganeh Guadie Lecturer Health Informatics Bahir Dar University	Digital Health, Health Infromation System, e-Health, Data Quality, Data Use, Data Science

	Kirubel Biruk Shiferaw Lecturer Debre Markos University	Digital Health, eHealth, Health information system, data quality, Machine learning, data science

	Tesfamariam Abuhay Assistant Professor and Vice Dean of the College of Informatics at the University of Gondar	digital inclusion, digital literacy, key performance indicators, inclusive access, capacity building, education
	Belay Enyew Chekol, Information Technology, University of Gondar	Computational health
	Tesfaye Bayu Bati Asst. Professor at Department of Informatics Deputy Director for Research and Technology Transfer Institute of Technology Hawassa University	technologies in education, digital health, natural language processing

	Universities in Finland (FI)
	Marianne Kinnula Associate Professor in Human-centred design and digitalisation, and the research unit vice-leader of INTERACT research unit in University of Oulu	Human-centred design, digitisation, information systems, human-computer interaction
	Sumita Sharma, Postdoctoral researcher, INTERACT Research Unit, University of Oulu	Child-Computer Interaction, Accessibility and Inclusion, Human-Computer Interaction for Development

	Universities in Great Britain (GB)
	Rahim Tafazolli Professor, Director of ICS, 5GIC, 6GIC, The University of Surrey	Satellite, Broadband, Energy Efficiency

	Universities in Greece (GR)
	George C. Polyzos Prof. Department of Informatics & Director, Mobile Multimedia Laboratory Athens University of Economics and Business

	Universities in Italy (IT)
	Carlo Riva Prof. at the Department of Electronic, Information and Bioengineering Politecnico di Milano	Propagation, Satellite Communication

	Universities in Kenya (KE)
	Charles Owino, Lecturer, Strathmore University, Nairobi	Public Policy, Development Studies

	Universities in Kazakhstan (KZ)
	Behrouz Maham Associate Professor at the Department of ECE Nazarbayev University, Astana	Wireless Communications, Wireless Networks

	Universities in Malaysia (MY)
	Chua Kah Heng, Senior Lecturer, Department of Mathematics and Science Education, Faculty of Education University of Malaya	Chemistry Education, Science Education, Teaching Pedagogy

	Universities in Norway (NO)
	Vilija Balionyte-Merle Coordinator NTNU Digital Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)	Next Generation Internet, Trust

	Laurence Habib Head of Department of Computer Science OsloMet -- Oslo Metropolitan University	Home technologies, Teleworking, e-learning
	Way Kiat Bong Researcher, Department for Information technology, Faculty for technology, art and design OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University	Gerontechnology, Elderly use of ICT, HCI, Universal Design of ICT
	Frank Reichert Professor at the Department of Information and Communication Technology, Faculty of Engineering & Science University of Agder (UiA)	SDG 4, future education, lifelong learning, microdegrees, mobile internet and applications, gender equality, African music heritage
	Devinder Thapa Prof. at the Department of Information Systems University of Agder	ICT4D
	Ghislain Maurice Norbert Isabwe Associate Professor, Multimedia & eLearning Faculty of Engineering and Science University of Agder	Human-computer interaction, Human-centred design, User Experience Design, Blended Learning, Open Online Education
	Andrea S. Winkler, Deputy Director of Centre for Global Health at the Faculty of Medicine, Co-chair of the Lancet One Health Commission. Professor at the Department for Community Medicine and Global Health, at the Institute of Health and Society University of Oslo	Global Medicine, Global Health, Global Mental Health in low income countries, Clinical Neurology, Basic Neurosciences
	Josef Noll Prof. at Department of Technology Systems, University of Oslo Secretary General of the Basic Internet Foundation	Digital Health, Digital Inclusion, Access, National Knowledge Portal, School Connectivity, 6G
	Peyman Teymoori, Research Fellow, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo	Recursive InterNetwork Architecture (RINA), Congestion Control, Wireless Networks, Analytical Modelling and Optimization of Computer Networks

	Jörn Klein, Professor University of South-Eastern Norway (USN)	Global Health, Infectious disease

	Universities in Slovenia (SI)
	Denis Trcek Professor, Lab and Department Head University of Ljubljana	e-business, computer communications, security, privacy, trust management (human factor modeling)

	Universities in Sudan (SD)
	Mohamed Osman Abdelaziz Dean, Faculty of Medicine & Health SciencesUniversity of Dongola	Medicine and health sciences

	Mohamed Zain Ali Vice Chancellor Gadarif University	Food science, nutrition, food and dairy microbiology, fermentation biotechnology, quality control and laboratory technology

	Universities in Tanzania (TZ)
>	Felix Sukums Lecturer at the Directorate of Information and Communication Technology, Muhimbili University of Health and Applied Sciences (MUHAS) Dar es Salaam	Digital health, digital inclusion, digital literacy, data governance
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	Helena Ngowi, Associate Prof. at the Department of Veterinary Medicine and Public Health Sokoine University of Agriculture	Veterinary Public Health, One Health, Zoonoses

	Universities in South Africa (ZA)
	Amit K Mishra Professor, Radar Remote Sensing Group, Electrical Engineering Department University of Cape Town	Radar, radio system design; TV Whitespace; Bio-inspired sensing; AI; Engineering for Development

	Mammo Muchie DSI/NRF Research Professor on science, technology and innovation studies Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria	Invention, innovation, creativity & entrepreneurship, digital technology

Research Topics on Digital Inclusion

Create a meaningful value for every single human being through the Internet
Contribute to digital inclusion, digital literacy and key performance indicators (KPIs) as drivers for resilient communities, decent work, and local/national goals aligned with the SDGs
Create trustable knowledge on education, health, governmental information, financial inclusion as well as digital public goods that target the SDGs
Inclusive access, allowing everyone to get free access to trustable knowledge. As an example, an InfoSpot in a village may hold courses to acquire digital skills, and handle certificates for the educational sector. As an example, building low-cost backhaul solutions, innovative distributed network architectures, knowledge portals at the edge of the network, and simplified user authentication and security solutions
Capacity building in education and research for digital empowerment as the main objective and for every single human being to use the Internet in daily lives
Data governance and innovation on data is the core for value creation within the society and the country. By combining the innovations from the private sector, and the governmental data, one can create the innovation ecosystem for the Private-Public-Partnership (PPP).
Regulatory issues and business models as the drivers for industrial take-up

Agree and Join the collaboration?

Read our full statement on "Call for Action: University Collaboration for Digital Inclusion" (.pdf) And get in touch with Josef Noll, m: +47 9083 8066, LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/josefnoll/ or one of our team members - still interested? then please join through the Google Form