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Published on: Sep 27 2010 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on Students Bridging the Information Gap
Students Bridging the Information Gap, Inc. (SBIG) harnesses the humanitarian interests of students, corporate and faith-based partners and other civic groups to support fellow students in less-developed countries by providing...
Published on: Sep 27 2010 by Kenneth Omeruo - Comments Off on Your Call to Action: Be an African ICT Entrepreneur!
Being your own boss is the best job you can get because what you do and how you do it in your business is all up to you. Interested in starting your own Information and Communications Technology (ICT) business? Then get out...
Published on: Sep 24 2010 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on #m4D – The Official Twitter Hashtag for Using Mobile Phones for Development
On the Twitter social network, people use hashtags, the “#” symbol followed by letters and numbers or a word to signify a Tweet in relation to a specific subject. For example, the #ICT4D hashtag is employed to...
The World Bank’s Open Data initiative is intended to provide unfettered access to the World Bank’s data catalog, including databases, pre-formatted tables and reports. Our friends at Online Africa have taken...
Since 2006, Inveneo and our Certified ICT Partners have delivered innovative information and communication technology (ICT) solutions reaching more than 1,500,000 people in over 500 communities in 25 countries in Sub-Saharan...
Published on: Sep 17 2010 by Thad Kerosky - Comments Off on ICT is a Function of Education across East Africa
To an outsider, it can seem slightly incongruous that Kenya, Uganda, and small Rwanda have taken leading roles in leveraging mobile and internet technologies for strong social effect where Tanzania (and peripherally, still...
Published on: Sep 15 2010 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on ICT4D, Innovation, and Millennium Development Goals
The UN Week Digital Media Lounge will be highlighting new approaches that are tackling Millennium Development Goal challenges. Innovative information and communication technologies are one way to accelerate progress toward...
Published on: Sep 14 2010 by Ritse Erumi - Comments Off on The Bi-Weekly ICT4D Retrospective: Important Links for Sept 1-14, 2010
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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...
When we talk of deploying information and communication technologies in schools across Africa, most people assume the technology will be bought by the national, regional, or local government, or by the school itself. This...
Published on: Sep 10 2010 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on Learn How Peer-to-Peer University is Hacking Higher Education
Imagine imputing an object into a rigid four-year, $100,000+ process, hoping that when it finally leaves this system its a useful tool. That’s the current university system, where higher education resembled the Waterfall...
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