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I am Ed Gaible of Natoma Group and I am here to report that RCT fetishism is alive and well in development.
Sometime in the early part of this millennium, Randomized Control Trials (RCTs) as support for decision making began...
Published on: Jun 22 2016 by Guest Writer - Comments Off on Mapping a Single Version of the Truth: Liberia’s National Concessions Portal
“The most important reason to manage land is to avoid conflict,” said Amadou Thera, the CIMS Implementation Specialist at USAID-GEMS. “Firstly, you have conflicts between communities that can certainly arise from land...
Published on: Jun 20 2016 by Kristen Roggemann - Comments Off on We Need to Close the ICTforAg Partnership Gap
There was one panel discussion that really stuck in my mind from the recent ICT4Ag conference, and in particular one speaker: Chris Burns from USAID during the plenary on How Can ICT Increase Food Security? This is not some...
Published on: Jun 17 2016 by Josh Woodard - Comments Off on The Dangers of Legal Ignorance in Digital Development
Some time ago I was working in a country that had enacted data localization laws requiring that all personal data that originates in that country must also be hosted on servers located within its jurisdiction. Although as...
Published on: Jun 14 2016 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on Last Week to RSVP: USAID Digital Development Forum Central America
Regístrese hoy para ser parte de este encuentro con más de 200 expertos en tecnología digital y desarrollo internacional en el Foro USAID de Desarrollo Digital para Centroamérica. El Foro se enfocará en compartir soluciones...
Published on: Jun 13 2016 by Natasha Beale - Comments Off on The Low-Tech Way to Reach Everyone on Earth
We often focus on new technologies – developing the newest app or handing every teacher a tablet – as if they are magic bullets to solving the world’s development problems. While it would be great if this were...
Now the Sustainable Development Goals are with us, what are the implications for ICT4D? A recent discussion held by members of the Centre for Development Informatics gave some pointers.
The MDGs have run their course, achieving...
Published on: Jun 08 2016 by Guest Writer - Comments Off on User-Generated Content: Critical Yet Missing From ICT4D
Today, user-generated content dominates the first world’s online experience. User-generated content (UGC) can inform (Wikipedia), respond (Quora), recommend (Yelp), support commerce (eBay), organize around causes (Kickstarter),...
On Friday, we had the startling realization that fishermen do not use mobile phones to compare market prices of fish. Besides cultural and legal limitations to their ability to sell in different markets, as Tony Roberts...
We all know the story. Fishermen use mobile phones to call ahead to different markets to find the one with best prices, so they can sell their catch for the largest profit. We’ve heard this line a thousand times, and...
