Education

SPACE and Curriculum Development Centre, Department of Education, University of Kerala together organised a workshop to review an e-learning module on adolescent education jointly developed by them. A review of this e-module was held on 30 November 2012 at Trivandrum Hotel, Thiruvananthapuram involving experts from State Resource Centre, SCERT, College of Teacher Education, Loyola College of Social Sciences, Kerala Women's Development Corporation, Research Students and NGOs. 

SPACE organised an eight-day workshop for the Library staff of JNU on Assistive Technologies for the visually challenged from 8-15 September 2012. The main objective of the programme was to equip the Library staff as master trainers to assist the visually challenged to use computers. The entire workshop training module was based on free and open source software. A two day orientation programme intended to sensitize the visually challenged in free software based technologies was also conducted for
the students of JNU.

SPACE conducted a two day workshop on ICT and New Media with the support of Student Christian Movement of India, Kerala region at St. Thomas College, Kozhencherry on May 3 and 4, 2012. 15 students, predominantly boys, participated in the workshop. The students were trained in various Internet tools and applications. The students were also trained in content management systems so as to help them publish their own content on the web.

EdICT2010, an international conference on enabling access to education through ICT is being held at New Delhi from 27 to 29 October, 2010 by Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) in cooperation with the Global Initiative for Inclusive ICT (G3ICT), a flagship advocacy organization of the UN Global Alliance on ICT and Development (UN-GAID), the International telecommunications Union (ITU), Digital Empowerment Foundation, SPACE and the Deafway Foundation.

FOSSEE, IIT Bombay and SPACE will organise an international conference on Scientific Computing with Python (Scipy.in 09) from December 12 to 17 at Technopark, Thiruvananthapuram.

For online registration:  http://scipy.in