Welcome to the virtual conference

By Douglas Druckenmiller

The virtual conference site for the 8th Global Conference on Human Development is active and ready for dialogue.  

For the virtual conference website go to: www.virtual.ica-nepal.org 

For the main conference website go to:  www.conference.ica-nepal.org

This is a custom designed website for the use of the conference leadership team and virtual theme participants.  The site was designed through an international collaborative process involving more than 100 undergraduate and graduate students along with the conference coordinating team and virtual ToP trainers during the spring term of 2012.  An international development team took these initial designs and prepared the conference web platform.  This virtual environment will be available for dialogue during the conference and after the conference for continued collaboration and sharing.

You will need to register on the site to create your free account.  Just click the link on the welcome article “Click here to register for your Virtual Conference account.”  Virtual conference registration is free and all the conference themes will have forum dialogues, paper discussions, photo sharing and blogging capability with ToP facilitator support.  Each theme is also supported with a group Skype connection and virtual “sticky wall” powered by Edistorm.  We’ve engaged ICA’s virtual ToP facilitation team to provide “Sherpa” support to virtual conference participants.  You can explore and join any or all of the conference themes on the site and engage in the pre-conference theme dialogues.

To contact Douglas Druckenmiller, the development team leader, email da-druckenmiller@wiu.edu or call ddrucken over Skype