ICT and Development

appointments and Commissions

• Acting Professor at the Division of IT and Gender Research, Blekinge Institute of Technology 1998 – 1999
• Full professor at the Division of Technoscience Studies (IT and Gender Research), Blekinge Institute of Technology, 1999 –
• Deputy Dean at the Technical Faculty of Blekinge Institute of Technology 1999 – 2004
• Member of the programme committee of FRN “Technology, Information, Culture and Society”, 1995 - 1998.
• Board member of IT-Blekinge / RISI (Pilot Region for the Implementation of the Information Society, EU-DG XVI), 1996 - 2000.
• Member of the scientific reference group “Natural science, technology and industry” of Sida/SAREC, 1997 - 2000.
• Board member, appointed by the government, of the Research Board Sida /SAREC, 2001 – 2006
  
• Member of the Swedish Reference group for UN ICT Task Force and WSIS (World Summit on Information Society) under Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2002 – 2005
  
• Member of WSIS Gender Caucus Research Committee, 2003 - 2005
• Board member of VINNOVA Information and Communications Technology Department, 2006 –
  

Publications

(selected)

• Peter Ekdahl, Pirjo Elovaara, Lena Trojer, Eva Wittbom, Ideal and Realities, 1999, University of Karlskrona / Ronneby
• Peter Ekdahl, Elisabeth Gulbrandsen, Christina Mörtberg, Lena Trojer, Gro Hanne Aas, Encounters between Rhetoric and Real Life Experiences – implementing IT at local level in the county of Blekinge, 2000, University of Karlskrona / Ronneby
• Elisabeth, Gulbrandsen, Albert Nsengiyumva, Birgitta Rydhagen, and Lena Trojer, ICT, innovation systems and the role of universities in societal development - a (post)colonial strain, 2004, National University of Rwanda Press
• Peter Ekdahl, Lena Trojer, “Digital Divide / Catch up for what?”, Gender, Technology and Development, Sage publications, vol.6, nr 1, 2002.
• Lena Trojer, “Rhetoric and Realities: Evaluation of IT Projects”, Feminist Challenges in the Information Age, ed. Christiane Floyd, Govind Kelkar, Silvie Klein-Franke, Cheris Kramarae, Cirila Limpangog, publisher Leske & Buderich Verlag and McMillan, 2002.
• Peter Ekdahl, Lena Trojer, “Accountability and ICT Development Discources”, in Proceedings, IFIP WG9.4 Conference ICTs and Development : New Opportunities, Perspectives & Challenges, Bangalore, India, May 29-31, 2002.
• Birgitta Rydhagen, Lena Trojer, “Prerequisites for Postcolonial ICT”, Kvinnoforskningsnytt nr 1, 2004.
• Christina Björkman, Pirjo Elovaara, Lena Trojer, 2004, ”Living in the ´Belly of the Beast´ – Doing Feminist IT Research”, submitted.
• Lena Trojer, “ICT and the Role of Universities – a technopolitical and postcolonial challenge” in Elisabeth, Gulbrandsen, Albert Nsengiyumva, Birgitta Rydhagen, and Lena Trojer, ICT, innovation systems and the role of universities in societal development - a (post)colonial strain, 2004, National University of Rwanda Press

• Birgitta Rydhagen, Lena Trojer,  ”Postcolonial ICT Challenges”, in Trauth, Eileen (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology, Information Science Publishing, 2006.

• Peter Okidi-Lating, S.B.Kucel, Lena Trojer, "Implementation of Hybrid E-learning Model for Advanced Secondary School Physics and Mathematics Education of Female Students in Uganda: Arua Case Study" published by Elsevier Ltd, UK, in the proceedings of the First International Conference on Advances in Engineering and Technology, 16-19 July, 2006, Entebbe, Uganda, ISBN- 13: 978-0-08-045312-5 and ISBN- 10: 0-08-045312-0, pgs. 538-545

• Peter Okidi-Lating, S.B.Kucel, Lena Trojer, "Strategies for Implementing Hybrid E-learning in Rural Secondary School in Uganda", presented at the First International Conference on ICT for Development, Education and Training, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, May 24-26th 2006 and published in the conference proceedings, CD.  The abstract for the paper was published by ICWE GmbH, Berlin, Germany in the Book of Abstracts, ISBN 3-9810562-2-1

• Peter Okidi-Lating, S.B.Kucel, Lena Trojer," Design and Development of Interactive Multimedia CD-ROMs for Rural Secondary Schools in Uganda",  published by Elsevier Ltd, UK, in the proceedings of the First International Conference on Advances in Engineering and Technology, 16-19 July, 2006, Entebbe, Uganda, ISBN- 13: 978-0-08-045312-5 and ISBN- 10: 0-08-045312-0, pgs. 546-553

• Peter Okidi-Lating, S.B.Kucel, Lena Trojer, "Longitudinal Analysis of Performance of Ugandan Rural Female Advanced Level Students in Physics Practicals", paper at the Conference on Collaborative Research for Technological Development - Kampala 17th - 21st December 2007

• Peter Okidi-Lating, S.B.Kucel, Lena Trojer, "E-Learning for Development in Rural Uganda: Co-evolution in Triple Helix Processes", paper at the Conference on Collaborative Research for Technological Development - Kampala 17th - 21st December 2007

• Ellen Kalinga; Burchard Bagile; Lena Trojer, “An Interactive e-Learning Management System (e-LMS): A Solution to Tanzanian Secondary Schools’ Education”,  in World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET), International Journal of Social Sciences (IJSS) Volume 1 Number 4, 2007, Pages 250 – 253.

• Ellen Kalinga; Burchard Bagile; Lena Trojer, “Strategies for Developing e-LMS for Tanzanian Secondary Schools”,  in World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET), International Journal of Social Sciences (IJSS) Volume 2 Number 3, 2007, Pages 145 – 150.

• S. K. Lujara; M. M. Kissaka; L. Trojer; and N. H. Mvungi, “Introduction of Open-Source e-Learning Environment and Resources: A Novel Approach for Secondary Schools in Tanzania”, International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Sciences, vol. 4, nr 2, 2007

• S. K. Lujara, M.M. Kissaka, E. P. Bhalalusesa and L. Trojer, “Learning Objects: A New Paradigm for e-Learning Resource Development for Secondary  Schools in Tanzania”,  in International Journal of Social Sciences (IJSS) Volume 2 Number 3, 2007, World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET) pp 151-155.