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Do you sometimes feel that every international development organization is in love with mobile money today? That transferring currency equivalents via mobile phones will somehow be a silver bullet for many pressing issues....
Published on: Jun 20 2012 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on Join us for Fail Faire UK 2012 – a celebration of failure
Projects succeed, projects fail. The successes are always reported on, the failures are often filed away – pushed under the proverbial rug. Well, its time to bring out the failures, with a sense of humor and with an...
Recently, Ory Okolloh (@kenyanpundit) tweeted this brilliant suggestion to the leadership of Research in Motion, owners of the BlackBerry mobile phone system:
Blackberry should just relocate its headquarters from Canada...
Published on: Jun 15 2012 by Linda Raftree - Comments Off on How will IATI impact US-based development agencies? Technology Salon in DC
The Technology Salon* hosted at IREX on Thursday, June 6, focused on what the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) would mean for international development, especially for US-based NGOs and government contractors.
Tony...
Recently, TechCrunch made the bold prediction that in five years’ time, most sub-Saharan Africans will have smartphones. At first I thought this just more mobile phone hyperbole. That feature phones will be with us for...
Published on: Jun 11 2012 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on Wanna get the inside scoop on ICT4D? Then…
Like ICTworks on Facebook. Yes, we know you hear that often, and usually it’s some hollow gimmick to game folks into inflating a like count. But we have something better.
We Post High-Quality Links on the ICTworks...
Published on: Jun 08 2012 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on Twhii: a great Twitter client for Java phones
Twhii is a new Twitter client for Java phones. Mr Mobility says:
For a Java app, Twhii is impressive. It gives advanced Twitter users all the flexibility that they need, and it is also perfectly usable by more basic users....
As governments, USAID, and other development organizations search for ways to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, the e-reader raises a promising opportunity to make progress towards the 2nd Millennium Development...
Published on: Jun 05 2012 by Sabina Behague - Comments Off on The Bi-Weekly ICT4D Retrospective: Important Links for May 23 – June 5, 2012
eLearning Africa 2012: You’d have to be living under a rock not to have known about the eLearning conference last week. The 7th International Conference on ICT for Development, Education, and Training (eLearning...
At eLearning Africa 2012 there was a strong interactive white board (IWB) presence. Yet I wonder how effective they are for ICT for education interventions in the developing world. I’ve only seen one teacher use...
