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What Are Best Practices in ICT4D? Tweet Your Answers to #ICT4Real Today!

What Are Best Practices in ICT4D? Tweet Your Answers to #ICT4Real Today!

Published on: Apr 12 2013 by Wayan Vota - Leave a Comment
Yesterday, my good friend Jon Camfield asked a great question: Hey ICT4D folks, is there a best practices and principles document for our work, or do we all just...
What the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation Learned From 10 Years of ICT4D

What the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation Learned From 10 Years of ICT4D

Published on: Mar 18 2013 by Wayan Vota - Leave a Comment
After more than ten years of support in the realm of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Development, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation...
Learning From My 11 Failed Technology Projects

Learning From My 11 Failed Technology Projects

Published on: Mar 13 2013 by Jonathan Gosier - 1 Comment
It’s always great to look at one’s current or past successes, but what about the failures? Every entrepreneur (hell, every person person) has failed at something…...
Citizen Voices UK: A Global Conference on Citizen Engagement with the World Bank

Citizen Voices UK: A Global Conference on Citizen Engagement with the World Bank

Published on: Mar 07 2013 by Wayan Vota - Leave a Comment
The World Bank, Development Gateway, and Plan UK invite you to RSVP for Citizen Voices UK: A Global Conference on Citizen Engagement for Enhanced Development Impact. Citizen...
Innovation Spaces: People and Community Matter More Than Tech or Type

Innovation Spaces: People and Community Matter More Than Tech or Type

Published on: Jan 18 2013 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off
Technology hubs, innovation spaces, hacker centers, incubators, telecenters, libraries, co-working offices, etc, there are many names to call the places where like-minded...
GSBI Silicon Valley is Recruiting Advanced Social Ventures for 2013

GSBI Silicon Valley is Recruiting Advanced Social Ventures for 2013

Published on: Nov 23 2012 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off
Global Social Benefit Incubator Silicon Valley, a combination online/in-residence social enterprise accelerator is now taking applications for 2013 cohort....
Failure is the F-Word in International Development

Failure is the F-Word in International Development

Published on: Nov 19 2012 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off
On Friday night, I organized the third annual Fail Faire DC to celebrate failure as a mark of innovation and risk-taking. Check out the photos and Twitter stream...
USAID Practitioners Toolkit: Interactive Radio for Agricultural Development Projects

USAID Practitioners Toolkit: Interactive Radio for Agricultural Development Projects

Published on: Nov 16 2012 by Guest Writer - Comments Off
For decades now, radio has been a dominant source of information for farmers in much of sub-Saharan Africa. Although the reach of radio varies from country to country,...
How InSTEDD Started the iLab Southeast Asia

How InSTEDD Started the iLab Southeast Asia

Published on: Oct 31 2012 by Guest Writer - Comments Off
I am Dennis Israelski of InSTEDD and our work in Southeast Asia began in 2007, following Larry Brilliant’s TED prize in 2006, with the support of founding grants...
10 Tips on Using New ICTs for Qualitative Monitoring and Evaluation

10 Tips on Using New ICTs for Qualitative Monitoring and Evaluation

Published on: Oct 22 2012 by Linda Raftree - Comments Off
At the October Technology Salon NYC, we focused on ways that ICTs can be used for qualitative monitoring and evaluation (M&E) efforts that aim to listen better...
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