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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...
Published on: Sep 09 2010 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on Bavyiew Webspot
The Bayview Webspot is an Internet Cafe in the Bayview neighborhood of San Francisco, USA. The goals of the Bayview Webspot are to strengthen low-moderate income communities by continually providing access to, and...
The tech publication Ars Technica warned recently that Android’s proliferation in China might not lift Google’s image in East Asia–many parties there are vivisecting it into a clone called OPhone.
I want...
Yesterday, Huawei introduced a revolutionary Android smartphone in the Kenyan market. The tech specs for the IDEOS mobile phone will make any hardware geek drool – 2.8-inch (240×320) touch display, 528MHz...
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME’s) are the backbone of most economies in Africa. Innovative and creative entrepreneurial approaches are needed to help African SMEs adapt to global standards and realize their...
Published on: Sep 03 2010 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on BizSpring Towards Innovation and Entrepreneurship
African Diaspora send over $40 billion dollars in remittances every year, but is that enough to inspire innovation and entrepreneurship across the continent? Project Diaspora doesn’t think so, and in response they’ve...
Published on: Sep 01 2010 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on How ProjectFOCUS is Bridging Digital Divides with Bicycles
Across colleges in North America, ProjectFOCUS is raising awareness and capital to invest in solar-powered, income-generating internet cafes in Uganda with amazing, replicable computer lab fundraising skills.
But they’re...
Published on: Aug 31 2010 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on Test
Published on: Aug 31 2010 by Ritse Erumi - Comments Off on The Bi-Weekly ICT4D Retrospective: Important Links for Aug 17-31, 2010
Sending MMS your way: On August 26, the good folks over at FrontlineSMS, upped the ante with the addition of MMS capabilities to the latest release of their software. Imagine the doors this will open up for health-care delivery,...
Michael Trucano, a recognized expert on deploying ICT in education, recently blogged about Worst practice in ICT use in education:
Here’s a list of some of what I consider to be the preeminent ‘worst practices’...
