{"id":19682,"date":"2025-07-03T18:23:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T16:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/projects\/voices\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T12:37:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T10:37:19","slug":"voices","status":"publish","type":"projects","link":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/en\/projects\/voices\/","title":{"rendered":"VOICES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a widespread agreement that ICT services,  especially mobile ones, have the potential to play a major role in  furthering social and rural development in developing economies. Market  penetration and rural community adoption of basic mobile telephony and  services have been extremely rapid in recent years. This is opening up  lots of new opportunities, but in order to realize the full potential of  mobile ICT services, however, important challenges and obstacles must  be overcome. This is what the VOICES project sets out to do.<br \/>\nThe <a>Mobile Web for Social Development Roadmap<\/a>, recently published as a result of the <a>EU-FP7 Digital World Forum project<\/a>,  makes it abundantly clear that realizing the full potential of mobile  ICT and Web services requires addressing two big types of challenges:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The leveraging of content that  is locally relevant to actors and entrepreneurs who are of key  importance to on-the-ground social and rural development.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The removal of a range of access barriers (notably, limitations  related to access channels, literacy, and languages) that currently  hamper information\/knowledge sharing and associated community building  especially in rural areas.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a>VOICES project<\/a> intends to make a major step forward, by an integrated bundle of  activities that will resolve several key challenges as outlined in the <a>Mobile Web for Social Development Roadmap<\/a>. 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She graduated from the University of Montr\u00e9al, Canada. Since 1993, she has been dedicated to the study and design of systems and approaches based on Instructional System Design (ISD), enhancing technological innovation in support of teaching and learning. She currently coordinates the Edutech group, which is engaged in researching and developing new methodologies for remote access to European technical-scientific laboratories through a project named RIALE-EU, funded by the Department of Public Education. Her work is centred on the situational approach to facilitate secondary students' processing of new information, in connection with complex experiments conducted by scientific experts, partners of the project. The RIALE-EU project is rooted in previous initiatives, notably the IDEA project and Line B2, part of the Tutti a Iscol@ program funded by the Autonomous Region of Sardinia, involving hundreds of students in the regional territory. It has experimented with the \"School Without Walls\" approach to develop skills within the natural cycle of learning: school, social environment, and home, with the support of augmented reality. Furthermore, it has explored the use of Artificial Intelligence to foster an interdisciplinary approach in education and has published several scientific articles in specialized journals and conference proceedings. 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His versatile disposition drew him to collaborate in projects dealing with meteorology, knowledge-based techniques, geometric modeling, rapid prototyping, quantum computing, grid technologies, hydrology, deployment and capability upgrading of some stand-alone hydro-geological applications on grid infrastructures accessible through web portal, DSS development, development of pedagogical design for adult technology education, knowledge management, knowledge transfer, innovative technology in didactic activities. Currently is a component of VALE team and cooperates at RIALE-EU (RAS 2023) and RIALHE (ERASMUS+ 2023) projects respectively aiming at: enlarging the experience of RIALE project involving national and European laboratories, with the objective of strengthening the relationship between Sardinian schools and the international scientific world, moreover giving to schools in the rest of Italy the possibility to attend experiments carried out in laboratories in Sardinia; improving the accessibility and quality of scientific education linked to lab experiments, enriching the learning experience through remote online access and real-time interaction with demonstrating scientists. He is involved in a collaborative multidisciplinary Team headed by Carole Salis, to identify the framework based on Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) activities in which the teacher experiences are to be developed.He worked on: \"RIALE\" (RAS 2022) that developed a multifunctional platform for innovative teaching applications through remote access to laboratory experiences, from which teachers and students develop learning scenarios; IDEA (RAS 2018) with the aim to enhance and promote the use of technological innovation in schools. guiding and supporting teachers as they experience new practices, new methods and tools, making a sensible use of digital technologies; \"Tutti a Iscol@ - linea B2\" (RAS 2015) project aiming to reduce early school-leaving and improve students skills and competencies, through extracurricolar laboratories; ANDASA project (funded by Region Sardegna tender: Azioni Cluster con Approccio Top Down (LdA 6.1.1.A del POR Sardegna FESR 2007\/2013 - ASSE VI COMPETITIVIT\u00c0 - \"Promozione e sostegno all'attivit\u00e0 di RSI dei Poli di Innovazione e dei progetti strategici\")) about the adaptation of a Web-based platform to the artistic, cultural and creative industries in order to fulfill some of their issues as knowing who works in each specific field of art, the artistic results and prodction, the actual local impacts on a specific territory, and how to link artistic productions potentially related; VOICES (EC - FP7) project, about the development of a mobile platform to support rural development in Sub-Saharian Africa; MOMAR project (Italy - France PO Maritime) about the development of an integrated system for monitoring and control of the marine environment; GRIDA3 (FAR D. Lg 297\/99), CYBERSAR (PON 2000-2006), DEGREE (EC - FP6 IST) projects about Grid Technology applications on Hydrology; \"PIATTAFORMA HW\/SW PER IL QUANTUM COMPUTING (PON CONV FESR RICERCA E COMPETITIVIT\u00c0 2000-2006)\", project about the development of a software platform for quantum computing; ViVa project (EU-1063, HPPC-SEA Chapter F) about the development of a system able to process three-dimensional (3D) datasets extracted from a Computer Tomography (CT) apparatus and print the corresponding 3d physical models. Was coordinator of local organization of SWAT International Conference 2015 (200 people) and Summer Schools (2013-2014 and 2015 edition - 50 people), and of Seminar Series 2016 (17 events and around 50 attendees each). Moreover cooperated with the IoT (Internet Of Things) schools regional network.He has co-authored various papers in scientific international journals and conference proceedings and attended as a speaker in various national and international meetings. He has contributed to the writing of project proposal at different levels (EC, national, regional). He has constantly shown the ability to establish and maintain good working relations with people from multicultural backgrounds and transnational environments. He is able of great understanding, friendliness, adaptability, empathy, and politeness in new and ongoing group settings. Colleagues said that he has a creative personality naturally interested in fostering social relationships, in making connections between seemingly unrelated ideas, in changing over new fields of research and in exploring challenging perspectives. Since June 2010 he has accepted the challenge of working as a member of Valorization and Transfer of Knowledge (VALE) team.","post_title":"Fabrizio Murgia","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"fabrizio-murgia","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2026-04-05 20:12:57","post_modified_gmt":"2026-04-05 18:12:57","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/people\/fabrizio-murgia\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"people","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>VOICES - CRS4<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crs4.it\/en\/projects\/voices\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"VOICES - CRS4\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There is a widespread agreement that ICT services, especially mobile ones, have the potential to play a major role in furthering social and rural development in developing economies. 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