About Digital Youth
'Kids' Informal Learning with Digital Media: An Ethnographic Investigation of Innovative Knowledge Cultures' is a three year collaborative project funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Carried out by researchers at University of Southern California and University of California, Berkeley, the digital youth project explores how kids use digital media in their everyday lives. Read more
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Mahad Ibrahim
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Mahad Ibrahim is currently a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley's School of Information. His dissertation research focuses on exploring the impact of institutional frameworks and organizational forms on the use of information and communication technologies for development in the Arab Republic of Egypt with an emphasis on a national network of government sponsored community technology centers.
Mahad is also a researcher on the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation funded Digital Youth project exploring the role of "third places" such as after school programs, community technology centers and other spaces of technology use outside of the "school" and the "home" in kids informal learning and everyday use of digital technologies and media. The project seeks to offer a cross-cultural perspective on a growing phenomena through comparisons of sites in the Bay Area and Egypt.
In addition to his academic research, Mahad has consulted for Intel, HP and Microsoft on context-based assessment and design of information and communication technologies for healthcare, education and shared accessed computing in emerging markets and has worked in Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
Mahad has been a Fulbright scholar, UNIDO Management of Technology Fellow, and University of California Mentored Researcher in addition to many other awards and honors. Prior to returning to graduate school, Mahad worked in the IT industry and on health surveillance and outreach. He has his Bachelor's (1999) in Applied Economics and Management from Cornell University, and a Master's (2002) in Information Management and Systems from UC Berkeley.
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- www.ischool.berkeley.edu/~mahadi
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