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We all knew it. We saw this coming in Haiti and talked about it in Egypt, when 5 Ushahidi maps popped out the day before the elections. But the Kenyan elections are somehow different, and the reason why they are, is that...
Published on: Apr 19 2013 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on Are Massive Open Online Courses Massive Opportunity or Massive Hype?
Join us for an in-depth analysis of these questions and the overall educational impact of Massive Open Online Courses on the developing world during the MOOC Educational Technology Debate.
Stanford, Harvard, MIT, and many...
Published on: Apr 17 2013 by Aaron Mason - Comments Off on Apply Now for the 2013 ISIF Asia Awards
Are you or your partners using the Internet to promote social causes in Asia? Could you use several thousand dollars to help move your cause forward? If so, the Information Society Innovation Fund (ISIF Asia) may be looking...
ICTWorks would like to give a huge thank you to Jordi Cabot and the team at Go WordPress for helping to bring the site up to date by migrating to WordPress. I won’t convince you that one blog platform is better than another,...
Published on: Apr 12 2013 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on What Are Best Practices in ICT4D? Tweet Your Answers to #ICT4Real Today!
Yesterday, my good friend Jon Camfield asked a great question: Hey ICT4D folks, is there a best practices and principles document for our work, or do we all just kinda make it up as we go? This reminded me that Adele Waugaman...
We all know that M-PESA in Kenya dominates the mobile money conversation in Africa, where mobile banking has expanded to 16% of the market. So its easy to assume that Kenyans have the highest usage of mobile money anywhere...
If you’ve been paying any attention at all to financial markets over the past several weeks there’s no way you’ve missed the Bitcoin: the unregulated, uncontrolled digital crypto-currency that’s risen over 600%...
Published on: Apr 05 2013 by Jen Overgaag - Comments Off on ICT4D Routers and a Downloadable Firewall
At Inveneo, we push technology hard. Our engineers work with the latest tools on the market and our deployments span some of the harshest environments on the planet. Connecting remote islands, rural communities and refugee...
You’re undoubtedly familiar with Ubuntu. An open source OS powerhouse, some argue that Ubuntu has the potential to take a sizable bite out of the cost of deploying tech that would otherwise require license fees. Others...
Different colored lasers light up a section of cloud during a test of Inveneo’s StratoLancer system. Photo: Aaron Mason
When trying to communicate over great distances, things invariably get in the way. The solution so...
