Introducing Inveneo BatNet: A Broadband WiFI Solution for Rural Areas
In an effort to extend WiFi signals into more rural regions, Inveneo has been secretly extending research into bat radar. A major breakthrough today allows WiFi...
The Bi-Weekly ICT4D Retrospective: Important Links for March 14 – 27, 2012
Activist and Citizen Journalists: We saw it throughout the Arab Spring and most recently in Syria. Then and now, activists and citizen journalists fill a media...
Start mLearning initiatives outside the classroom
Mobile phones may be amazing, ubiquitous, and a real platform to learn with. Yet, the mobile phone (like many ICTs) comes with associations that prevent it...
The Social Side of ICT4D
We all know that technology helps shape the way we work, learn, interact, and behave. We have also seen countless social issues come out of our own technology –online...
The Bi-Weekly ICT4D Retrospective: Important Links for February 29 – March 13, 2012
BoP Women and Mobile Tech To commemorate International Women’s Day on March 8, the GSMA mWomen Programme published a study called “Striving and Surviving...
A Simple Email Address Can Be a Major ICT4D Barrier
When did you get your first email account? Can you remember? Or was it just too long ago? I think my first email address was in college in 1992, but it could’ve...
What do Randomized Control Trial Results from OLPC Peru Mean for ICT4E?
In 2007, Peru announced it would distribute tens of thousands of XO laptops from One Laptop Per Child to children in rural schools across the country, and expanded...
The Reality of Electrical Power Variability in African ICT4D Projects
Looking at the wavy line above, you could be forgiven if you think that’s a pure sine wave electrical power graph. It is not. It is the electrical power grid...
The Bi-Weekly ICT4D Retrospective: Important Links for February 15 – 28, 2012
High Tech Innovation in Africa:
My last couple of “bi-weekly links” posts have featured African innovation and hardware creation. It’s been noted...
Are School Computer Labs a Bad Idea?
I am Michael Trucano and as part of my job, I visit lots of schools around the world to see how they are actually using various types of educational technologies....
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