Do you sometimes feel that every international development organization is in love with mobile money today? That transferring currency equivalents via mobile phones...
Published on: Jun 20 2012 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on Join us for Fail Faire UK 2012 – a celebration of failure
Projects succeed, projects fail. The successes are always reported on, the failures are often filed away – pushed under the proverbial rug. Well, its time...
Recently, Ory Okolloh (@kenyanpundit) tweeted this brilliant suggestion to the leadership of Research in Motion, owners of the BlackBerry mobile phone system:
Blackberry...
Recently, TechCrunch made the bold prediction that in five years’ time, most sub-Saharan Africans will have smartphones. At first I thought this just more mobile...
Published on: Jun 11 2012 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on Wanna get the inside scoop on ICT4D? Then…
Like ICTworks on Facebook. Yes, we know you hear that often, and usually it’s some hollow gimmick to game folks into inflating a like count. But we have something...
Published on: Jun 08 2012 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on Twhii: a great Twitter client for Java phones
Twhii is a new Twitter client for Java phones. Mr Mobility says:
For a Java app, Twhii is impressive. It gives advanced Twitter users all the flexibility that...
As governments, USAID, and other development organizations search for ways to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, the e-reader raises a promising opportunity...
At eLearning Africa 2012 there was a strong interactive white board (IWB) presence. Yet I wonder how effective they are for ICT for education interventions in...
Published on: May 29 2012 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on Get an ICT4D Job! Policy, Health, Management
ICT Policy Specialist: The ICT Sector Unit of the World Bank is recruiting an ICT Policy Specialist through the JPPAD (Junior Professionals Program for Afro-Descendants...
At an ICT4Edu conference in Kyrgyzstan, I was treated to a yelling match between technologists and educators on the brilliance or foolishness of installing Linux-based...
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