Name

Mimi Larsson

Country of residence

 Denmark

Professional position

Project Coordinator

Academic degree

Mag.art of Anthropology and Ethnography

Institution / Place of work

Institute of Anthropology, Copenhagen University

E-mail

mimi @ necen.org, mimi @ fritaktiv.dk, Work telephone number: +45 35323566

Language skills

Danish, English, Hungarian, German

Area of interest (region, country)

 Hungary

Area of interest (thematic interests)

 Democratization, social movements, civil society, political action

Education

1^st year exam in Hungarian language studies at Århus University.

Work Experience

2005: Consultant for the Danish Youth Council. Evaluation of communication activities.

2004-2005: Freelance  translation work (Hungarian-Danish, Hungarian-English, English-Danish, Danish-English).

2004-2005: 6 months research scholarship granted by the Hungarian Ministry of Informatics and Communication for research on IT-instruction for elders in Hungary and Denmark.

2002: Consulting services for Hungarian based IQ Soft for a research and development project on broadband access in rural areas (Rural Wins).

2002: Research fellow at the Information Society Research Institut (ISRI) at the Technical University in Budapest. www.ittk.hu

2001: Consultant to the Hungarian Telecottage Association restructuring their member-database and reporting on a country-wide member survey.

2001: Assistant advisor for BA students at Aarhus University.

2000: Volunteer for the Foundation for Development of Democratic Right (FDDR) in Budapest, Hungary while performing fieldwork.

Teaching experience

2004: Guest lecturer at the MA course 'Power, morality and conflict in the post-socialist world' by Finn Sivert Nielsen at Copenhagen Institute of Antropologi.

Scholarships/Prices

2004: 2.000.000 HUF for research on IT-instruction for elders in Hungary and Denmark. Granted by the Puskás Tivadár Foundation under the Hungarian Ministry of Informatics and Communication.

2001: 15.000 DKK for research on Armenian free media. Granted by IDELLA foundation.

2000: 10.000 DKK for fieldwork on Hungarian NGOs. Granted by Aarhus University.

1999: 1 month Hungarian language course at Debrecen summer University, Hungary. Granted by the Hungarian Ministry of Education.

1998: 1 month Hungarian language course at Debrecen summer University, Hungary. Granted by the Hungarian Ministry of Education.

1998: 1 semester scholarship for studies in Budapest, Hungary. Granted by the Hungarian Ministry of Education.

Participation in conferences and seminars

2003 Presentation on the Hungarian Telecottage Movement at the 'Information Society as Key Enabler for Rural Development' conference in Valencia, Spain.

2002 Presentation on the Hungarian Telecottage Movement at the 'Telecommunications for Development' conference in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

2002 Presentation on the development of e-government services in Hungary at the Island Festival in Budapest.

2002 Invited respondent for the conference 'Building Bridges of Democracy' organized by Civicus in Budapest.

2002 Presentation on the use of ICT in villages delivered at the EU-sponsored Regional Conference 'e-Development for Caucasus' in Armenia.

2002 Presentation and workshop mediator at The Fourth Nordic Conference on the Anthropology of Post-Socialism "Anthropological Perspectives on New Social and Cultural Divisions in East / Central Europe" in Denmark.

2001 Member of organising committee and moderator for seminar on anthropology at Århus University, Denmark.

2001 Presentation at the conference 'The Road To Democratization - Detours and Freeways' at Duke University, USA.

2001 Discussion panellist (representing the Hungarian Telecottage Association) on telecentre issues at the INET 2001 conference in Stockholm.

Fieldwork

2002 10 months combined fieldwork and research fellowship at the Information Society Research Institute (ISRI) at the Technical University in Budapest. www.ittk.hu

2000 7 Months fieldwork with the Foundation for Development of Democratic Right (FDDR) in Budapest, Hungary

Other

7/2001 Journalist internship and research at Noyan-Tapan News Centre in Yerevan, Armenia. www.noyan-tapan.am

3-9/2001 Research internship at the Institute for Political Science, Århus University, Denmark.

2006. Inclusion of the Elderly - In Practice. Informácios Társadalom. Vol.1 (forthcoming)

2005. Ud af Kommunismens Skygge - Ind Under EU's Kappe. Jordens Folk. Vol. 1, 2005. pp.10-15

2004. Political Action in a Post-Socialist Society (MA Thesis). www.anthrobase.com

2002. Invenciozus vezeték nélküli hálozatok Prágátol Belgrádig. Infinit . Vol.12, 19 (http://www.ittk.hu/infinit/2002/1219/index.html)

2002. The Democratic Trinity Doctrine (Conference Paper). www.anthrobase.com

2002. Civil Society In A New Democracy - A Look At Local Realities. www.demstar.dk. Research Report No. 7.

2000. Internetbrugere på Hovedbiblioteket (undersøgelsesreport). Hovedbiblioteket i Århus. www.aakb.bib.dk/hb/presentations/mimi.htm