Why India’s $35 Aakash Android Tablet is an EduTech Red Herring for ICT Deployments in Education
This week, India’s Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) announced the Aakash, a “$35” Android tablet computer they are boastfully claiming...
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Who in ICT4D is on Google Plus? We are making a list!
Recently Ian Thorpe took advantage of a unique feature of Google Plus, the ability to create and share “circles” to produce a circle of over 70 international...
e-Village
The main objective is to carry out research based project and works on basis for promotions of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) in rural East Africa...
Fail Faire DC 2011 – a celebration of failure
Fail Faire DC 2011 is a celebration of failure as a mark of innovation and risk-taking. We will have great speakers with fun, fast, Ignite-style presentations of...
Tabaarak ICT
Tabaarak ICT is ICT Company which operates Eastern Africa
and It has offices Somalia and Kenya
On Politics and Programmers Across a Continent
This morning, I republished the post The 3 types of developers you will find in Africa by Richard Ngamita. He compared the software developer community to three...
What if I gave you a fully loaded Macbook Air filled with content in Klingon?
That is what I think many good intentioned people do when they install computer systems without locally relevant content – they deploy the equivalent of a...
A Great Success: World Bank Has 70% Failure Rate with ICT4D Projects to Increase Internet Access
We all know that developing countries have seen rapid growth in information and communication technology (ICT) access and use – from basic Internet access...
How Do We Break Oscar Night Syndrome in ICT4D M&E?
No one ever fails in ICT4D. Isn’t that amazing! Technologies come and go quickly – bye, bye PDA’s, Windows Vista, and soon Nokia – yet...
Rural ICT4D Sustainability with DeepFreeze Software from Faronics
In places where Internet access is hard to come by but computer viruses spread like wildfire, protecting a single PC or an entire computer lab is a huge challenge....
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