Rega Isabella (PhD student)


Isabella Rega holds a master in Communication Sciences and completed an executive master in Intercultural Communication from the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI).

She is currently a researcher and Ph.D. candidate with a thesis on the role of tele-centers in socio-economic development. Within the NewMinE Lab at the USI, Isabella is currently involved as project manager in two projects dealing with the introduction of ICT in teacher training for disadvantaged teachers in the state of Bahia (Brazil), and in the region of Cape Town (South Africa). These projects are funded by the Swiss National Research Fund, the Swiss Department of Cooperation and Development and the Swiss State Secretariat for Education and Research.

Isabella worked in some tele-centres, as researcher and instructor, in Jamaica, Burkina Faso, Benin, Guinea and South Africa, and collaborated as online teacher for a distance university in Colombia. Furthermore, she has founded seed (LINK: www.seedlearn.org), a non profit organization promoting the development of a culture of educational technologies for international development and non profit sector.

She is also member of IPID, The International Network for PG Students in ICT4D and the ICT4D Collective at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Contact Isabella at
Tel. +41 (0)58 666 4674
Mail: isabella.rega@lu.unisi.ch
Skype: isakof

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