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The always informative oAfrica blog has an interesting post on a survey of Internet users in Kinshasa, DRC. Along with oAfrica, I question some of the survey findings, especially the assertion that 1.3 million Kinois are...
Published on: Nov 07 2012 by Guest Writer - Comments Off on mWASH: Mobile Phone Applications for the Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Sector
In the past decade, water and sanitation practitioners have begun deploying mobile phones as tools to improve water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services. In studying the deployments of mobile phone for WASH, or mWASH,...
Published on: Nov 05 2012 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on It is High Noon for Netbooks
Do you remember the buzz in 2008 for low-cost laptops? Can you recall when Asus announced the EeePC, a sub-$400 laptop computer that had all the techies excited? Or when OLPC proclaimed they would be shipping 10 million...
Looking at this map of Wikipedia edits from Africa, I am surprised by the total lack of edits from the gray areas. Some countries, like Somalia & Somaliland, I can expect to be light on Wikipedia input, but I would...
Published on: Oct 31 2012 by Guest Writer - Comments Off on How InSTEDD Started the iLab Southeast Asia
I am Dennis Israelski of InSTEDD and our work in Southeast Asia began in 2007, following Larry Brilliant’s TED prize in 2006, with the support of founding grants from Google.org and the Rockefeller Foundation.
These...
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Fail Faire DC 2012 is a celebration of failure as a mark of innovation and risk-taking. Like our event in 2011, we will have great speakers with fun, fast, Ignite-style...
Published on: Oct 22 2012 by Linda Raftree - Comments Off on 10 Tips on Using New ICTs for Qualitative Monitoring and Evaluation
At the October Technology Salon NYC, we focused on ways that ICTs can be used for qualitative monitoring and evaluation (M&E) efforts that aim to listen better to those who are participating in development programs....
Published on: Oct 17 2012 by Guest Writer - Comments Off on How Can We Make Cloud Solutions Relevant in the Offline World?
I am Amos Cruz and below are my thoughts around a recent Technology Salon on “How Can We Make ‘Cloud’ Solutions Relevant in the Offline World” with a cohort of though leaders and decision makers...
Looking across Africa, a discrepancy shows itself. Nigeria, with all its problems, has 30% of its population online. Kenya, once a tech backwater, has a 74% Internet penetration. And Senegal? It was once a leader in Internet...
Published on: Oct 12 2012 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on Do Not Pity Those That Think Facebook Is the Internet
Christopher Mims has a well researched article on Facebook’s plan to find its next billion users and convince them the internet and Facebook are the same. He has great data points and graphics from around the developing...
