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Published on: Apr 08 2011 by Kelechi Edozie-Anyadiegwu - Comments Off on “The Boy who Changed the World” ICTworks Interview with Simeon Oriko, Founder and Executive Director of The Kuyu Project
Simeon Oriko is a young entrepreneur, age 21, who is the founder and Executive Director of The Kuyu Project, which is a digital literacy initiative aimed at teaching African high school students how to use social media...
Published on: Apr 06 2011 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development
Every two minutes, a woman dies in childbirth – 150,000 maternal deaths, 1.6 million neonatal deaths, and 1.2 million stillbirths occur each year. And in sub-Saharan Africa, women are 136 times more likely to die...
Education is a key investment in human capital: no variable from 1900 better explains economic success in 2000 than investment in education. Yet today 69 million school children globally don’t have access to basic education...
Published on: Apr 01 2011 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on Introducing the Inveneo Super-Duper Performance Computing Station
Today, Inveneo is proud to introduce the Super-Duper Performance Computing Station exclusively for sub-Saharan Africa use. Based on the Cray Pi supercomputer, the Inveneo Super-Duper Performance Computing Station generates...
Published on: Mar 30 2011 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on Digital Divide or Digital Bridge: Can Information Technology Alleviate Poverty?
The past decade has seen great interest in information and communication technologies applied to international development, an endeavor sometimes abbreviated ICTD. Can mobile phones be used to improve rural healthcare? How...
Published on: Mar 29 2011 by Ritse Erumi - Comments Off on The Bi-Weekly ICT4D Retrospective: March II
Welcome to the ICTworks bi-weekly ICT4D Retrospective, where we condense the last two weeks of news into a succinct list of links for your perusal. If you want your news to be featured, email them to ritse [at] ritseonline...
I recently had the opportunity to sit on a tender selection committee for an organization where I am involved at the board level. This is an organization that has an outstanding operational model and works in a professional...
Published on: Mar 25 2011 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on VC4Africa
VC4Africa.com believes that entrepreneurship should be the main driver in Africa’s economic growth, in particular the small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) that provide much of Africa’s employment, income and hope...
Published on: Mar 25 2011 by Mouhamadou Ly - Comments Off on Radio Communautaire et centre multimedia dans une zone rurale du Burkina Faso
Fondé sur un rapport final de projet ainsi que de conclusions résumant plusieurs réunions de
groupes de réflexions, ce rapport est destiné à tous les acteurs dans le domaine de l’agriculture et du développement rural...
Published on: Mar 23 2011 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on USAID Lessons Learned in ICT for Distribution and Supply Chain Management in sub-Saharan African Agriculture
Using ICT to manage distribution and supply chains can increase efficiency and predictability and reduce waste in value chains and have positive impacts on all market actors. ICT applications presented in this paper are divided...
