Organic Farming Training in rural Kenya – an ICT approach to knowledge dissemination

Organic Farming Training in rural Kenya – an ICT approach to knowledge dissemination

Published on: May 11 2011 by Ignatz Heinz - 1 Comment
Biovision Foundation is a Swiss non-profit organization with a global mission to alleviate poverty and improve the livelihoods of rural people in Africa while maintaining the natural resources and diversity that sustains...
Why Tanzanian Internet Access Prices Have Not Decreased with the Arrival of SEACOM

Why Tanzanian Internet Access Prices Have Not Decreased with the Arrival of SEACOM

Published on: May 09 2011 by Wayan Vota - 16 Comments
Recently, Ory Okolloh (aka @kenyanpundit) asked a pertinent question on Twitter, that I would paraphrase as: “Tanzanians – what are your thoughts on why Internet access prices are not dropping and bandwidth speed...
Hosting Control Panels

Hosting Control Panels

Published on: May 08 2011 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on Hosting Control Panels
Making a right decision on choosing the best control panel that fits both the country’s peculiarity and the business at large. Why are people in Africa prefer to use Cpanel than any other hosting control panel, lets...
ihostAfrica

ihostAfrica

Published on: May 08 2011 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on ihostAfrica
ihostAfrica is an innovative company making a massive significant investment in improving hosting business in Africa, by ensuring people get hosting at a very cheap and affordable cost, matching it with a good online 24/7...
Evaluation of Intel Teach Getting Started Program in Indonesia

Evaluation of Intel Teach Getting Started Program in Indonesia

Published on: May 06 2011 by Wayan Vota - 3 Comments
The Evaluation of the Implementation and Impact of the DBE3‐Intel “Getting Started Program” presents the results of an evaluation conducted on the implementation and impact of the joint program between USAID...
Does Facebook Have Any International Development Impact?

Does Facebook Have Any International Development Impact?

Published on: May 04 2011 by Wayan Vota - 1 Comment
In response to last week’s post about Facebook’s usage in Africa doubling every 7 months, Victor van R, a Dutch ICT4D researcher asked the following pertinent question: Is there any development impact of FB?...
Is the WikiReader the killer eReader app that will transform the developing world?

Is the WikiReader the killer eReader app that will transform the developing world?

Published on: May 02 2011 by Wayan Vota - 3 Comments
Back in 2009, we were excited about the WikiReader from Openmoko. This $99 device has the 3+ million Wikipedia articles at your fingertips with only a micro-SD card and 2 AAA batteries – no Internet required. We proclaimed...
Facebook usage in Africa is doubling every 7 months!

Facebook usage in Africa is doubling every 7 months!

Published on: Apr 29 2011 by Wayan Vota - 4 Comments
This is Africa as visualized by Facebook. You could find it depressing if you looked at the world and saw that compared to the USA or Europe, Africa is still “dark”. Or you could take a positive view, like...
3 Reasons Why Local ICT Partners are Critical for Implementation Success

3 Reasons Why Local ICT Partners are Critical for Implementation Success

Published on: Apr 27 2011 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on 3 Reasons Why Local ICT Partners are Critical for Implementation Success
I saw this slide at a recent workshop and for me it states the obvious – having a good ICT partner is critical for a technology project to succeed. Then again, I am biased. I helped create the Inveneo Certified ICT...