Community Informatics in Porto

I am in Porto, Portugal for about ten days, for two back to back events. This is the view from my hotel window, out to the beach. Porto, or Oporto, which it gets called in English sometimes, is a port city and the home of port wine. Very pretty town. And the hotel room even has a great bathtub, which seems to be too decadent for general use in Scandinavia.

The first event is a two day seminar in what some people are calling community informatics, how to assist people in developing countries who want to use information and communication technologies in their communities. More on that in a another post. The second event is a week long seminar in research methods for digital media that I am doing at the University of Porto, as part of an agreement it has with University of Texas. Time to get rolling or no breakfast, which seems particularly good at this hotel, so more later.