Isabella Rega holds a Ph.D. in Communication Sciences and an Executive Master degree in Intercultural Communication from the Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI). Her PhD dissertation dealt with the role of telecentres in socio-economic development.
She is currently Senior Lecturer in Digital Literacies and Education at CEMP - Centre of Excellence in Media Practice<http://www.cemp.ac.uk/> and member of the Civic Media Hub <http://www.civicmedia.io/> at Bournemouth University.
Formerly she worked as Post-Doc researcher at the London Knowledge Lab<http://www.lkl.ac.uk/>, Institute of Education, University of London, working on a project about mobile learning for Community Health Workers in Kenya (mCHW). Before moving to UK, Isabella was the executive director of the NewMinE Lab <http://www.newmine.org/> at USI and of the CROSS-FIELD Pro*Doc and has been involved as project manager in several ICT4D projects, focusing on eLearning and access issues, in South Africa, Brazil and Mozambique.
Isabella has worked in telecentres, as researcher and instructor, in Jamaica, Burkina Faso, Benin, Guinea and South Africa, and collaborated as an online teacher for a distance learning university in Colombia.
She co-founded Associazione seed<http://seedlearn.org/>, a non profit organization promoting the use of educational technologies in the non profit sector.
(excerpted from http://staffprofiles.bournemouth.ac.uk/display/irega )
Sessions
Roundtable 2: Slum Tourism