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National Techie Event 2008
Workshop for IT practitioners at Higher Education Institutions in South Africa who have a technical role. The DITCHE National Techie Event is one of the few national gatherings specifically for IT practitioners in public higher education. Its purpose is to deepen and strengthen the bonds that exist within this community, by bringing people together once a year to talk, listen, share ideas, discuss experiences, plan collaborations, and learn from one another. There are no costs of attendance: travel and accommodation expenses are funded by TENET, and the only institutional commitment is the time and willingness of staff to share their experience with the rest of the community.
| What | National event NTE |
|---|---|
| When |
2008-09-16 09:00
to 2008-09-18 13:30 |
| Where | Kopanong Conference Hotel |
| Contact Name | Geoff Hoy |
| Contact Phone | 082 555 5714 |
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This year's event will be held at the Kopanong Hotel and Conference Centre in Johannesburg. We have decided to use the same conference venue this year as last year based on the extremely positive feedback that we received. Directions to the venue can be found at:
http://www.kopanong.co.za/map.html
Registration procedure:
Go to
protea.tenet.ac.za/cgi/cgi-ditche.exe
and sign up.
Please note that:
* Registration will close on the 1st September 2008 (or when 120 attendees have registered).
Transport: Transport from Johannesburg International has been arranged with the hotel. Further details of this will be provided closer to the event.
Presentations: This is an occasion for the community to share its insights and experiences. We ask that each delegate be willing to contribute one presentation in which they focus on an IT issue that has been of importance to them or their institution and to describe how they tackled it, and what they learned in the process. Presentations do not have to be formal PowerPoint-driven exercises; they can take the form of a simple twenty minute talk followed by discussion, or they can equally be full-blown forty-minute formal sessions. We do not prescribe the format: presenters should use whatever they are comfortable with, bearing in mind the objective of sharing experiences. Presenters who would prefer to participate in a panel discussion or in joint presentations are more than welcome to indicate this as a preference.
NB Please lodge details of your presentation on the registration site after 31 July. The programme will be drawn up from these presentations.
Program: The program will, as always, be based upon the offers of contributions and will be posted on the DITCHE web site in due course. We will start at 09h00 on Tuesday 16th September and end at 13h00 on Thursday 18th September.
We'd like to include a number of technical half-day or full-day workshops - the kind that are too long for a presentation but too short for a separate event. These have worked well in the past and we think they should be continued. If you'd like to run a workshop, or if you have identified an issue for your institution that you think should be covered by a workshop, please email Geoff Hoy (ghoy at tenet.ac.za) with details.
Background
DITCHE ("Developing IT Capacity in Higher Education") is a donor-funded capacity development program run by TENET. The program was made possible by the generosity of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and it aims to nurture the community of practice of IT professionals in public higher education by making professional development resources available at no cost. This event is intended for higher education IT staff who have a substantial responsibility for deploying or managing information technology, in the widest sense of the word, ranging from the purely technical domain to architectural and conceptual issues.
http://www.kopanong.co.za/map.html
Registration procedure:
Go to
protea.tenet.ac.za/cgi/cgi-ditche.exe
and sign up.
Please note that:
* Registration will close on the 1st September 2008 (or when 120 attendees have registered).
- * Accommodation and restaurant meal costs at the hotel are paid for by DITCHE. Room service, telephone calls, bar bills etc. are for the account of the delegate.
- * Delegates should make their own air travel arrangements, and DITCHE will refund them after the event according to the standard claims procedure.
- * Registered delegates who cancel after 2nd September (or who don't arrive) will be required to reimburse TENET for the full hotel costs incurred. Medical and other human emergencies are the only grounds for exemption.
- * By registering you affirm that you have the agreement of your management for your attendance at the event.
- TENET will not reimburse per diem or daily allowances as the full cost of the event will be met.
Transport: Transport from Johannesburg International has been arranged with the hotel. Further details of this will be provided closer to the event.
Presentations: This is an occasion for the community to share its insights and experiences. We ask that each delegate be willing to contribute one presentation in which they focus on an IT issue that has been of importance to them or their institution and to describe how they tackled it, and what they learned in the process. Presentations do not have to be formal PowerPoint-driven exercises; they can take the form of a simple twenty minute talk followed by discussion, or they can equally be full-blown forty-minute formal sessions. We do not prescribe the format: presenters should use whatever they are comfortable with, bearing in mind the objective of sharing experiences. Presenters who would prefer to participate in a panel discussion or in joint presentations are more than welcome to indicate this as a preference.
NB Please lodge details of your presentation on the registration site after 31 July. The programme will be drawn up from these presentations.
Program: The program will, as always, be based upon the offers of contributions and will be posted on the DITCHE web site in due course. We will start at 09h00 on Tuesday 16th September and end at 13h00 on Thursday 18th September.
We'd like to include a number of technical half-day or full-day workshops - the kind that are too long for a presentation but too short for a separate event. These have worked well in the past and we think they should be continued. If you'd like to run a workshop, or if you have identified an issue for your institution that you think should be covered by a workshop, please email Geoff Hoy (ghoy at tenet.ac.za) with details.
Background
DITCHE ("Developing IT Capacity in Higher Education") is a donor-funded capacity development program run by TENET. The program was made possible by the generosity of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and it aims to nurture the community of practice of IT professionals in public higher education by making professional development resources available at no cost. This event is intended for higher education IT staff who have a substantial responsibility for deploying or managing information technology, in the widest sense of the word, ranging from the purely technical domain to architectural and conceptual issues.