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Published on: Jan 28 2013 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on 5 Reasons to Use Open SIM Kit to Modify Mobile Phone SIM Cards
Any ICT4D projects that run on mobile phones, like digital health and mEducation initiatives, rely upon the benevolence of mobile network operators for their existence. And when it comes to “sensitive” activities,...
Published on: Jan 25 2013 by Guest Writer - Comments Off on Can ICT4D Keep Up With The Speed Of Technology Change?
What do the Consumer Electronics Show and the Hong Kong Electronics Fair have to do with ICT for Development?
The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) – billed as the world’s largest exhibition of electronic...
After a week of business meetings in the cities of sub-Saharan Africa, Eric Schmidt posted a detailed list of observations. As he used to run Google and is still on their board, I’ll give him a bit more credit than...
Published on: Jan 18 2013 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on Innovation Spaces: People and Community Matter More Than Tech or Type
Technology hubs, innovation spaces, hacker centers, incubators, telecenters, libraries, co-working offices, etc, there are many names to call the places where like-minded people come together to focus on a challenge. We do...
Published on: Jan 11 2013 by Aaron Mason - Comments Off on Tulane’s New National ICT Resource Tool
Interested in reading Ethiopia’s National ICT Policy? Looking for Costa Rica’s National Plan of Telecommunications Development? Or perhaps Cambodia’s National Proposed Policy for ICT Development for 2015?
Students...
Over the past several years two seemingly independent ideas have been gaining traction:
New technology allows developing nations to leapfrog over traditional growth patterns (M-PESA, long-range wi-fi).
The increasing move...
Published on: Jan 02 2013 by Aaron Mason - Comments Off on Africa Has More Mobile Subscribers than the US or European Union
With more than 650 million subscribers, the World Bank is reporting that Africa’s mobile phone market is now bigger than either the US or the EU. Up from just 9.4M subscribers in 2000, this represents a 40-fold increase...
Do you see that trend line in the chart above? Do you know what that means? Solar power is getting cheaper by the day, thanks to technological innovation and China’s solar panel export dumping. It also means that...
Published on: Dec 24 2012 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on Happy Holidays with an Uplifting Video of iPods in Education in Rwanda
Here is an uplifting ICT4E story where Edify is using Teachermate software on iPods to improve educational outcomes in Rwanda and Ghana. Watch the video above and read this quote from Edify:
We’ve been making slow but...
Published on: Dec 21 2012 by Guest Writer - Comments Off on Surprise! Free Public Internet Access Venues Do Not Compete with Mobile Phones for Users
The Public Access, Private Mobile report studied the interplay of shared access and the mobile Internet for teenagers in Cape Town.
It covered a large amount of ground, presenting findings from three interconnected data...
