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Published on: Feb 02 2011 by Linda Raftree - Comments Off on Best Practices in Incorporating ICT into Proposals for Funding
At the Technology Salon on “How to Incorporate ICT into Proposals“, we discussed some of the challenges and solutions for proposal writers when they try to incorporate information and communication technologies...
Published on: Jan 31 2011 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on Learn to use Wireless Technology to Extend Internet Access with WirelessU
WirelessU is a group of dedicated professionals working towards a world-wide, people-centered, inclusive Information Society. Their goal is to make it easier for existing groups to offer wireless training sessions by providing...
Published on: Jan 28 2011 by Kentaro Toyama - Comments Off on Bursting the 9 Myths of Computing Technology in Education
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I am Kentaro Toyama, and in the Educational Technology Debate post, There Are No Technology Shortcuts to Good Education, I’ve argued that technology in education has...
Published on: Jan 26 2011 by Oluniyi Ajao - Comments Off on How MainOne is Driving Internet Access Competition in West Africa
Competition is good. It not only keeps prices down but also keeps innovation up. For close to a decade, SAT3 (a submarine cable system) was the lone player in the fibre internet connectivity marketplace for West Africa. Things...
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has just released a $10,000,000 Annual Program Statement (APS) for Global Development Alliances (GDAs).
Through the 2011 GDA APS USAID is inviting prospective...
Published on: Jan 21 2011 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on Video: Michael Joseph on his decade as Safaricom CEO
Moses Kemibaro made an amazing video of Safaricom’s departing CEO, Michael Joseph, who spoke for about 2 hours at iHub on his wildly successful and “peculiar” decade at the helm of Safaricom, Kenya’s leading...
Published on: Jan 19 2011 by Linda Raftree - Comments Off on Using Technology Strategically for ICT Enabled Development
Plan released a new report called ICT Enabled Development: Using ICT strategically to support Plan’s work. The report is part of an on-going process by Plan Finland (kudos to Mika Valitalo for leading the process)...
In the excitement leading up to April’s presidential election in Nigeria, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) may have gotten a little carried away with its mandate to have a clean and fair elections....
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Nigerians are excited for the presidential election on April 9th. It is shaping up to be an interesting race, with the current president even announcing his candidacy...
Published on: Jan 14 2011 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on The Status of Google Baraza Three Months Later
Last October, Google launched Baraza to make the Internet more locally relevant in Africa and bring more people online. Google says:
A large number of questions that are typed into Google’s search engine by users are...
