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How ICTs Enhance Environmental Sustainability Projects

How ICTs Enhance Environmental Sustainability Projects

Published on: Mar 03 2014 by Guest Writer - Comments Off on How ICTs Enhance Environmental Sustainability Projects
Andris Bjornson – Inveneo In December, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) hosted its CEO Forum on Innovation Partnership, focusing on the use of ICTs to...
The 4 Barriers to Affordable Internet in 46 Emerging and Developing Countries

The 4 Barriers to Affordable Internet in 46 Emerging and Developing Countries

Published on: Feb 14 2014 by Guest Writer - 2 Comments
Three in five of the world’s people are not connected to the Internet. This digital divide hampers economic and social progress. The Alliance for Affordable Internet’s...
A NICE International ICT4D Failure

A NICE International ICT4D Failure

Published on: Jan 29 2014 by Guest Writer - 3 Comments
NICE International was offering telecenters with sustainable solar energy – so called NICECentres – to unleash the potential of people in developing countries....
International Development Ideas Hype Cycle for 2014

International Development Ideas Hype Cycle for 2014

Published on: Jan 17 2014 by Guest Writer - Comments Off on International Development Ideas Hype Cycle for 2014
The Gartner Hype Cycle is a wonderful conceptual framework for understanding how technologies move from initial invention to widespread application. The basic path...
5 Reasons Why Public Access Matters in the Age of Private Mobile Devices

5 Reasons Why Public Access Matters in the Age of Private Mobile Devices

Published on: Jan 15 2014 by Guest Writer - Comments Off on 5 Reasons Why Public Access Matters in the Age of Private Mobile Devices
The mobile Internet is growing at an unprecedented rate. It is expected to be a matter of time before mobile Internet use eclipses desktop use. What does this trend...
Needed: More Mozilla in International Development

Needed: More Mozilla in International Development

Published on: Dec 20 2013 by Guest Writer - 1 Comment
I am Christine Prefontaine and I learned about Mozilla because a good friend of mine started working there. Before, like many of you, I thought of them only as...
How to Use Mobile Phone Network Data for Better Development

How to Use Mobile Phone Network Data for Better Development

Published on: Dec 18 2013 by Guest Writer - 2 Comments
The UN Global Pulse has published ‘Mobile Phone Network Data for Development’, a primer on how analysis of Call Detail Records (CDRs) can provide valuable information...
5 Steps to Social Innovation with ICT

5 Steps to Social Innovation with ICT

Published on: Dec 04 2013 by Guest Writer - Comments Off on 5 Steps to Social Innovation with ICT
IICD uses a distinctive participatory and multi-stakeholder approach in developing social innovation programs with information and communication technologies. Whereas...
12 Considerations in Designing ICTs to Better Support Children

12 Considerations in Designing ICTs to Better Support Children

Published on: Nov 25 2013 by Guest Writer - 3 Comments
In both the developing and developed world there has been increasing debate about the role of teachers in the 21st century, particularly in the context of widening...
How to Make Development Finance and Procurement Data Exciting

How to Make Development Finance and Procurement Data Exciting

Published on: Nov 13 2013 by Guest Writer - Comments Off on How to Make Development Finance and Procurement Data Exciting
Efforts to make spending information more relevant and actionable often suffer from low levels of financial literacy, complexity, and just the unfavorable common...