ICTP-SDU openEyA Grant Winners Announced

[Science Dissemination Unit]

International Academic Webcasting Grant for Developing Countries using
openEyA - WINNERS ANNOUNCED


ICTP's Science Dissemination Unit (SDU) congratulates the winners of its
first grant programme "International Academic Webcasting Grant for
Developing Countries using openEyA". The grants support the automated
production of on-line scientific content (via "webinars") and e-learning
and distance education (via web lectures).

The grant is meant to contribute to capacity building and development by
implementing academic webcasting using openEyA. The grantees have agreed to
publish recorded lectures on the web and distribute them freely in digital
form for educational purposes.

The four winners, selected from a total of 100 grant submissions, received
a complete set of the openEyA recording system (worth about 650 Euros),
including all necessary hardware and software.

The four grantees are:

    * E-Learning Unit, Institute of Adult and Continuing Education,
        Makerere University, Uganda
    * Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, School of Sciences,
        University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
    * Department of Mathematics, University of Valparaiso, Chile
    * Department for Open Distance Learning, University of Bucharest, Romania

Congratulations to all winners and a we thank the ICTP Mail Office who
delivered the systems by courier to the winners Institutions.

         The SDU Team
         e-Mail: sdu at ictp.it


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About openEyA:
EyA (“Enhance your Audience”) is an innovative automated audio/video/slide
recording system, developed to archive and share scientific lectures and
talks carried out using digital presentations (PPT, PDF, animations, etc)
as well as traditional chalkboards or whiteboards found in classrooms.
The EyA system has these main features:
     * no human intervention during recording and post-processing;
     * scalable architecture;
     * no special requirements for the speaker or lecturer;
     * high-resolution images;
     * low-cost ownership and implementation;
     * low-bandwidth friendly features (zip, CD, DVD).

For more details about openEyA, visit http://www.openeya.org
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