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Published on: Jan 18 2017 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on Apply Now: $5 Million in Cash Grants for ICT4D Hardware Purchases
Guess what kids, there is a Hardware Santa Claus! Nethope has just announced its 2017 Device Challenge – $5 million dollars in cash grants for technology hardware funding for your programs.
Apply by January 27th.
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Ten years ago, very few people mentioned cell phones and M&E in the same sentence. Phones were for phone calls, or for texting friends; monitoring surveys were done on paper. End of story. Whenever we at Souktel pitched...
Published on: Jan 12 2017 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on Want to Influence 42,000 ICT4D Thought Leaders? Write for ICTworks!
ICTworks is now the premier digital development community. We have over 15,600 Twitter followers, 10,700 email subscribers, 11,300 Facebook friends, and 6,300 weekly website visitors – all of which are highly engaged...
Published on: Jan 11 2017 by Tech Change - Comments Off on Register Now to Learn How to Use Mobile Phones for Public Health
In 2016, the number of global mobile subscriptions reached 8.5 billion — more than the number of people on this earth – yet at the same time, health systems around the world are struggling to:
Provide access to...
Published on: Jan 09 2017 by Guest Writer - Comments Off on 4 Reasons for Large Scale SMS Text Surveys in Developing Countries
We know that SMS is a cheap, convenient, easy to adapt and automate, and non-intrusive way to collect data. But compared to face to face or phone interviews, text messages are also easier to ignore, and responses may be...
Published on: Jan 05 2017 by Guest Writer - Comments Off on Community Organising Technology Lessons Learned From South Africa
South Africa has a strong history of community organising and activism. Dense, ground-up organizing helped defeat Apartheid, then atrophied after the transition to democracy, but has resurged in the last few years. As any...
Published on: Jan 04 2017 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on Introducing the Mobile Information Literacy Curriculum
As millions of people come online across the globe through mobile devices, mobile information literacy is vital for those who have leapfrogged from traditional media to digital devices that provide instant access to information.
Mobile...
With mHealth a fast growing component of health delivery systems, many organisations are developing mobile and digital solutions to tackle health problems around the world. Presentations at MERL 2016 Conference showed that...
A 2014 White House report from the office of President Obama underlined that Big Data leads to ‘vexing issues’. Big data technologies can cause societal harms beyond damages to privacy, such as discrimination against...
The world’s population is projected to reach 9.2 billion by 2050. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has estimated that farmers will need to produce 70% more food than in 2006 to meet this demand. While agriculture...
