[Ict4d] Cancelled: Informal Roundtable Session: Changing Behaviour through Technology - the making of ‘healthy’ behaviour?

Tue May 2 18:10:43 SAST 2017

Hi all

Kindly note that the roundtable session has been cancelled due to ill-health of the presenters. It will be re-scheduled later this year so, if you're interested, kindly drop an e-mail to Eva to indicate your interest so she can inform you later.

Best- Jean-Paul

From: Eva Hilberg <e.hilberg at sheffield.ac.uk>
Sent: 02 May 2017 05:58 PM
To: Jean-Paul Van Belle
Subject: Re: FYI: Informal Roundtable Session: Changing Behaviour through Technology - the making of ‘healthy’ behaviour?

Hi Jean-Paul,

this is Eva from last week’s workshop in Joburg. I just wanted to get in touch to ask you whether you can circulate a cancellation notice (see below) to the same contacts as the original advertisement note for the roundtable. A number of people seemed very interested, and it would have been great, but I am still not recovered fully. By now I am fairly certain that this was Salmonella poisoning from airplane food. :-( Plus another presenter is also ill. So we decided to re-group and reschedule this for some time later in the year, when I will be here next and for longer. It’s a real pity, but it wasn’t to be this time around.

Thanks again for advertising this, and your help,

all the best,

Eva

Please note that the following event has been postponed for later in the year, due to ill health of several participants.

Informal Roundtable Session: Changing Behaviour through Technology - the making of ‘healthy’ behaviour?

Wednesday, 3rd of May 2017, 2-4 pm
Location: Seminar room 1, Level 1, Falmouth Building (Medical Campus, University of Cape Town)

On 24 Apr 2017, at 17:08, Jean-Paul Van Belle <jean-paul.vanbelle at uct.ac.za<mailto:jean-paul.vanbelle at uct.ac.za>> wrote:

Hi all - this is NOT a research seminar but anyone researching in this space is invited to contact Eva directly.

Informal Roundtable Session: Changing Behaviour through Technology - the making of ‘healthy’ behaviour?

Wednesday, 3rd of May 2017, 2-4 pm
Location: Seminar room 1, Level 1, Falmouth Building (Medical Campus, University of Cape Town)

This event is free to attend. Please contact Eva at e.hilberg at sheffield.ac.uk<mailto:e.hilberg at sheffield.ac.uk> to register your interest.

National health services, development agencies, and private businesses are increasingly portraying digital technology as a cheap and effective solution to a wide variety of public health issues. Technologies often seek to adapt expert medical knowledges and introduce them into everyday contexts through personalised devices. This mobilises medical knowledges and takes interventions beyond the confines of medical institutions, using for example psychological insights in order to change behaviour. But broadly worded assumptions about empowerment and potential for change do not always reflect the realities of these interventions. This session seeks to critically discuss the challenges encountered in the translation of ‘health’ into digital technologies within specific cultural, geographical, and economic contexts.

This informal roundtable session aims to bring together different researchers and practitioners working on the use of digital technologies for the promotion of health and wellbeing. It intends to facilitate new contacts, to establish connections between different research projects in this field, and to begin a critical interdisciplinary conversation about the implications of ‘digitising’ self-care and behaviour change.

Confirmed Participants:
Sara Cooper (UCT Public Health, StAR2D Project)
Nanna Schneidermann & Shari Thanjan (Oslo and Akershus University College/UCT Anthropology, MediAfrica Project)
Eva Hilberg (Sheffield Institute for International Development, University of Sheffield; ‘Changing Behaviour Through Technology’ Project)
further Participants tbc.

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