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Inveneo Solar Power Deployment Guide to Building Truly Practical PV Systems for ICT Projects

Inveneo Solar Power Deployment Guide to Building Truly Practical PV Systems for ICT Projects

Published on: Jul 18 2011 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on Inveneo Solar Power Deployment Guide to Building Truly Practical PV Systems for ICT Projects
Many people believe that solar power is too expensive to use for powering computer installations in remote or rural areas that are without a connection to the AC...
Mobile data subscriptions account for 99 percent of all Internet access in Kenya

Mobile data subscriptions account for 99 percent of all Internet access in Kenya

Published on: Jul 14 2011 by Wayan Vota - 4 Comments
Take a close look at that chart from the Quarterly Sector Statistics Report for October-December 2010 from the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK). Does anything...
USAID Global Workshop on Education and Development: From Evidence to Action

USAID Global Workshop on Education and Development: From Evidence to Action

Published on: Jul 11 2011 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on USAID Global Workshop on Education and Development: From Evidence to Action
Inveneo is proud to be helping organize the ICT Petting Zoo at the 2011 USAID Global Workshop on Education and Development: From Evidence to Action. var addthis_config...
Teledata ICT shows the future of cybercafes in Ghana

Teledata ICT shows the future of cybercafes in Ghana

Published on: Jul 08 2011 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on Teledata ICT shows the future of cybercafes in Ghana
As mobile phone data plans drop in cost and more cheap smartphones flood the African market, what is the future of the Internet cafe? Could mobile data kill off...
Solar Power Resources for Designing PV Systems in Rural Computer Projects

Solar Power Resources for Designing PV Systems in Rural Computer Projects

Published on: Jun 24 2011 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on Solar Power Resources for Designing PV Systems in Rural Computer Projects
There are two recent developments that have significantly lowered the cost of solar power systems for powering computer installations in remote or rural areas: The...
Building Youth Economic Empowerment with ICT

Building Youth Economic Empowerment with ICT

Published on: Jun 10 2011 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on Building Youth Economic Empowerment with ICT
Let us start by agreeing that technology has great promise in increasing the economic empowerment of youth in the developing world. We all believe it. But what...
Are we in the IT sector or the ICT sector?

Are we in the IT sector or the ICT sector?

Published on: Jun 06 2011 by Wayan Vota - 13 Comments
When you think and speak of your company and your profession, do you use the term “IT”, as in Information Technology, or do you say “ICT”...
Geuza: Build your Swahili vocabulary and fluency on a mobile phone

Geuza: Build your Swahili vocabulary and fluency on a mobile phone

Published on: May 27 2011 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on Geuza: Build your Swahili vocabulary and fluency on a mobile phone
Geuza was a winner at the Samsung Kenya Apps Contest last year, and I can see why: its a hot language learning tool designed for mobile phones. A real Kenyan mLearning...
7 strategies to target Africa’s broadband consumers

7 strategies to target Africa’s broadband consumers

Published on: May 23 2011 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on 7 strategies to target Africa’s broadband consumers
This is a screenshot of an Internet bandwidth speed test I did at a hotel in Dar es Salaam. At 1.65 Mbs, that’s the fastest speed I’ve ever recorded...
Lizards, Monkeys, and Bees – ICT Support Calls Inveneo Has Received

Lizards, Monkeys, and Bees – ICT Support Calls Inveneo Has Received

Published on: May 20 2011 by Wayan Vota - 1 Comment
With rural ICT implementations in over 23 countries, Inveneo gets some interesting support calls as all manner of issues come about. Today from Kenya, we bring...