Pedro Eilert Hepp Kuschel
Name: Pedro Eilert Hepp Kuschel
Nationality: Chilean
Business address: Chacay 1186
Temuco - Chile
Business phone: 56-45-742242
Birth date, birth place: 9th February 1951 in Purranque , Chile .
Passport number: 8.089.356-6
e-mail: pedro.hepp@tide.cl
Professional studies and degrees.
Civil Electrical Engineer (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 1976)
Ph.D. Computer Science (Edinburgh University, 1983)
Areas of interest
• Information and Communication Technologies in primary and secondary education in developing countries; teacher training; educational software; science learning; technical assistance to schools; hardware and software procurement; large scale educational project management, project scaling;
• Community development using information and communication technologies; emphasis on poor, isolated and culturally deprived communities; telecentres; digital divide; information society; Internet services for the poor; computer literacy.
Main professional activities
• Presently : President of TIDE (Consulting firm and software house); Advisor to the Chilean Ministry of Education on ICT in education; Professor at the Institute of Educational Informatics , University of La Frontera .
• Head of the Enlaces Project (Coordinador Nacional Red Enlaces) from 1990 to 2001. Enlaces is the Information Technology Program of the Chilean Educational Reform (see http://www.enlaces.cl ). Its aim is to properly integrate information and networking technologies in Chilean public schools.
• Head of the “Community Networks” project, funded by Corfo, SubTel, Ministry of Education, Conicyt, local government and other institutions. This project is developing a network of Telecentres in the Region de La Araucanía in Chile to improve the access of the population to Internet and information processing and to help in the development of local communities. 2000-2002 (see http://www.redcomunitaria.cl .
• Director of the Instituto de Informática Educativa of the Universidad de La Frontera in Temuco, Chile, from 1996 to 2001 and Full Professor at the Universidad de La Frontera.
• Associate Professor at the Computer Science Department, Faculty of Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, from 1976 until 1992.
• Head of U.N.D.P. Research Project on Expert Systems (1989-1991) involving 4 Chilean universities and several local industries.
• Principal researcher of several FONDECYT (Conicyt, Chilean research funding agency) projects on education, community networks, software engineering and expert systems.
• Member of the Board of Directors of WorldLinks, until July 2001.
A Selection of Recent Publications and Conferences
Hepp, P. and R. Garrido (2003). “ Chile - Community Telecentres” . Book chapter “ Connected for Development. Information Kiosks and Sustainability ” . A. Badshah, S. Khan and M. Garrido (editors) . New York , United Nations Information and Communication Technologies Task Force.
Hepp, P. (2003). “Enlaces: el programa de informática educativa de la reforma educacional chilena”. Book chapter “Políticas educacionales en el cambio de siglo. La reforma del sistema escolar de Chile”. C. Cox (editor). Santiago, Editorial Universitaria.
Hepp, P. (2003). “La Educación Digital”. Book chapter “La Educación en Chile, Hoy”. R. Hevia (editor). Santiago, Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales.
Hinostroza, J. E., Hepp, P., Cox, C., Guzmán, A. (2003). National Policies and Practices on ICT in Education: Chile (Enlaces). Book chapter “Cross-national Information and Communication Technology Policy and Practices in Education”. T. Plomp, R. E. Anderson, n. Law and A. Quale (editors), IAP Information Age Publishing.
Hepp, P., Laval, E. “ICT for rural education: A developing country perspective”. Book chapter “Learning in School, Home and Community. ICT for Early and Elementary Education”. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston . ISBN 1-4020-7367-4. February 2003.
Hepp, P., Laval, E., Garrido, R. “Telecentres in Chile : A Community Access Project”. WebNet 2000 World Conference on the WWW and Internet. San Antonio , Texas , October 30-November 4, 2000.
Hepp, P., Jara, I., Gatica, N., Careaga, M. “El proyecto Enlaces: logros y proyecciones”. Book chapter “La informática en la práctica docente”. Editors: Catalina M. Alonso y Domingo J. Gallego. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia. ISBN 84-699-2827-9. pp. 25-38. 2000.
Hepp, P. “La Red Enlaces del Ministerio de Educación de Chile”. Journal Ciencia al Día Internacional. ISSN 0717-3849. Volumen II, Número 3, Septiembre 1999. http://www.ciencia.cl/CienciaAlDia/volumen2/numero3/presentacion.html .
Hepp, P. “Enlaces: Todo un mundo para los niños y jóvenes de Chile”. Book chapter La Reforma Educacional Chilena. Editorial Popular. ISBN 84-7884-200-4. pp. 289-303. 1999.
Hinostroza, E. & Hepp, P. “Use of the Web in the Chilean Educational System”. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning. Blackwell Science Ltd. 15, 91-94. 1999.
