I will try to post as much as possible from Durban and Pretoria, but I am not sure as to the quality of the Internet connection in the hotel rooms (I believe it is at additional cost).
I will liken myself to some Ernie Pyle, man at the scene, inside scoop reporter at IFLA, giving reviews of the proceedings of what I am sure will be some tantalizing stuff. If you are an absolute dork like the vast majority of the people attending. An incredibly driven, dedication, passionate, and extremely competent group, but dorks nonetheless.
My name is Michael Sean Gallagher. I am a Lecturer in Digital Education at the Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh. I am Co-Founder and Director of Panoply Digital, a consultancy dedicated to ICT and mobile for development (M4D); we have worked with USAID, GSMA, UN Habitat, Cambridge University and more on education and development projects. I was a researcher on the Near Futures Teaching project, a project that explores how teaching at The University of Edinburgh unfold over the coming decades, as technology, social trends, patterns of mobility, new methods and new media continue to shift what it means to be at university. Previously, I was the Research Associate on the NERC, ESRC, and AHRC Global Challenges Research Fund sponsored GCRF Research for Emergency Aftershock Forecasting (REAR) project. I was an Assistant Professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (한국외국어대학교) in Seoul, Korea. I have also completed a doctorate at University College London (formerly the independent Institute of Education, University of London) on mobile learning in the humanities in Korea.
