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Back in July 2009, when I started ICTworks, my goal was to educate and excited the technology and development communities, and bring the two together to improve...
Archive for April, 2013:
Technology Challenges in Disaster Response: Learning from Hurricane Sandy’s Spontaneous Volunteers
San Francisco Technology Salon – Tuesday, May 7, 2013 – RSVP for this event
The days following the landfall of Hurricane Sandy saw an unprecedented...
And the Most Popular Web Browser in Nigeria Is?
If you have the vision of Nigerians using old Internet Explorer browsers to view your precious web content, you are living in the past. TechLoy reports that Google’s...
Did the Kenyan Elections Really Need 3 Maps, 7 Phone Numbers, and Several Web Forms?
We all knew it. We saw this coming in Haiti and talked about it in Egypt, when 5 Ushahidi maps popped out the day before the elections. But the Kenyan elections...
Are Massive Open Online Courses Massive Opportunity or Massive Hype?
Join us for an in-depth analysis of these questions and the overall educational impact of Massive Open Online Courses on the developing world during the MOOC Educational...
Apply Now for the 2013 ISIF Asia Awards
Are you or your partners using the Internet to promote social causes in Asia? Could you use several thousand dollars to help move your cause forward? If so, the...
Moving ICTWorks to WordPress: Special Thanks to Go WordPress’ Pro Bono Initiative
ICTWorks would like to give a huge thank you to Jordi Cabot and the team at Go WordPress for helping to bring the site up to date by migrating to WordPress. I won’t...
What Are Best Practices in ICT4D? Tweet Your Answers to #ICT4Real Today!
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...
Surprise! Guess Which Country is 2nd for Mobile Money Globally?
We all know that M-PESA in Kenya dominates the mobile money conversation in Africa, where mobile banking has expanded to 16% of the market. So its easy to assume...
Bitcoins are About to Reinvent Banking in Africa
If you’ve been paying any attention at all to financial markets over the past several weeks there’s no way you’ve missed the Bitcoin: the unregulated, uncontrolled...
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