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 David Leeming | |||
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| Employer: | Leeming Consulting (Director/owner) | ||
| Occupation: | Consultant | ||
| Other roles: | Technical Advisor for People First Network | ||
| Nationality: | British | ||
| Country: | Solomon Islands resident | ||
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David Leeming, Honiara, Solomon Islands, South Pacific
I am the Technical Advisor for the People First Network (PFnet). I am, as of June 2008, contracted by the SPC to coordinate OLPC trials in eight countries in the Pacific (see the previous link for details).
Contact me : leeming AT pipolfastaem DOT gov DOT sb or david AT leeming-consulting DOT com or Tel (677) 76396
I am a UK citizen who has been living in the Pacific Islands for 12 years now (as of Jan 2008). I am a specialist in ICT for development (ICT4D). My focus is on ICT for education, educational technology and sustainable rural development. I am also an experienced project manager and workshop facilitator. I have recently registered my own consulting company Leeming Consulting here in Solomon Islands, and can offer a range of services in addition to consulting, including full-cycle project management, research, information management and supply of appropriate technology.
I am best known as the Technical Advisor to the Solomon Islands People First Network, and more lately for a focus on the delivery of education services to remote areas, as manager of the DLCP project establishing distance learning centres connected with VSAT broadband Internet in Solomon Islands.
PFnet is a rural connectivity project consisting of an HF radio email network of "email stations" managed by remote and rural communities. Applications of information sharing and knowledge building are run over the network, including distance learning, financial and commodities, government, health and other information.
DLCP, the European Union-funded Distance Learning Centres Project in Solomon Islands, is an evolution of PFnet in that the distance learning centres are built on partnerships with the rural communities. The centres are providing a full spectrum of learning opportunities, including teacher training and upgrading, literacy training, technical and vocational training, financial literacy, civic education and continuing education. From Dec 2004 to Dec 2007, I was Manager of the DLCP.
A recent evolution of this work involves a wide area wireless network connecting schools around Marovo Lagoon. This work has been assisted by Rural Link of New Zealand, and I now have an arrangement to act as their agent in Solomon Islands. For more information on the Marovo Learning Network see here.
I have also been a key member of a small group of regional experts, now championed by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, to design an Oceania implementation of the “One Laptop per Child” (OLPC, popularly known as the “$100 laptop”) programme. Click here for more details - and see the PNG and Solomon Islands pages for the most recent work. I am, as of June 2008, contracted by the SPC to coordinate OLPC trials in eight countries in the Pacific (see the previous link for details).
My key experience is in the fields of ICT for Development; ICT for education, distance learning an eLearning; educational technology and distance learning; in particular concerning access for remote rural communities, eGovernment and ICT strategy and participatory methods in rural development. My work in Solomon Islands and PNG is replicable across the region and in other regions such as Africa.
I have consulted for the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, EU, UNDP and AusAid. My most recent consultancy is for the Commonwealth of Learning, facilitating workshops in their Learning4Content series.
In a recent consultancy for UNDP I have advised on a strategy for an integrated ICT network in one of the Solomon Island's nine provinces, consisting of rural email stations, FM community radio broadcasting stations and VSAT-connected learning centres. Programming linkages were identified in each of the sectors including education, health, agriculture, disaster management, rural finance, youth and women's development, church and commerce. I also advised on the application of these rural networks in e-governance, including for participatory planning, the electoral process and civic education.
In other work with UNDP I have facilitated workshops on national ICT strategy building, working with stakeholders in Solomon Islands and PNG.
I am a research scientist by training; before coming to the Pacific I worked in the research laboratories of the Health and Safety Executive in Sheffield, England, researching major industrial hazards and developing computerised quantified risk assessment models and tools.
I am a member of the Pacific Islands Internet Society (PICISOC) and as a founder memeber of their Special Interest Group on Education, organised an ICT in Education theme for their 2007 PacINET conference in Honiara, August 2007. I also have more general experience in the deployment of appropriate technology, including solar power for remote schools and communities.
I have also worked in collaborative activities in the region, for instance the regional consultations for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), and am a member of the Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP).
A list of my conference presentations and publications can be found here.
You will find literature on my work and on ICT for development in the Pacific at this page.
I live in Honiara with my wife Brenda Ma'ea (from Bellona Island) and family.
David Leeming,
Director, Leeming Consulting,
Technical Advisor, People First Network (PFnet)
P.O. Box 652, Honiara, Solomon Islands
Tel: +677 76396 (m) 24419 (h) 26358 (w)
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