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ALT-C 2008: Rethinking the digital divide
9-11 September 2008, Leeds, UK
*ALT Conference 2008 - booking deadline extended to Friday, 22 August 2008 at 12 noon BST*

To book a place to attend the conference:
http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2008/registering.html

This conference will explore and extend the debate over the digital divide, providing an opportunity to develop both thinking and practice. The premise to be explored in the conference is that the digital divide
is multidimensional, rather than just being a problem of access, and that the divide is, in different ways, prevalent in many settings, and is not limited to the divide between first world and lesser developed
countries. In addition, several forms of the digital divide manifest themselves in everyday situations encountered by many in the learning technology domain.

Full details of the conference programme can be found at:
http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2008/timetable.html
with a fully interactive programme linking to authors and abstract texts.

For the first time, and as a trial for 2008, ALT is adopting the Crowdvine conference social networking service. We have great hopes that Crowdvine will enhance conference attendees’ experience. Amongst other
things, Crowdvine will enable attendees to bookmark favourite sessions, find out what events friends and colleagues are attending, establish communication with other conference participants and easily arrange to
meet them at the conference.

There will be major keynotes from:
* *David Cavallo*, Chief Learning Architect for One Laptop Per Child.
David’s keynote will stress how solutions to the digital divide should support the development of collective agency that gives users power over their own lives.
* *Itiel Dror*, Senior Lecturer, University of Southampton. Itiel brings a unique perspective on learning and its fit with cognitive systems, and the bridge between cognition and learning technology.
* *Hans Rosling*, Professor of International Health, Karolinska Institute, Han’s Gapminder Foundation invented the Trendalyzer data visualisation tool. Hans will use this to analyse the economic, social and environmental divisions that exist in the world, and while pointing to the severity of the situation note that there are some reasons for optimism.