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Now that you know about YouTube Feather, its time for you to use it to learn about Question Box. Sign up for Feather and then listen to Rose Shuman of Open Mind, talk about Question Box, a local language information hotline...

Trying to watch a YouTube video on the low-bandwidth connections common in Africa is an experience in frustration. Download speeds are so slow that you often wait more than a minute for every minute of video. A 5 minute YouTube...

Solar energy provides a clean, sustainable, and reliable electrical source. Yet solar power is expensive and in the developing world, buyers often do not have the ability to purchase these systems. So they buy dirty, unreliable,...

While many practitioners and pundits in the ICT4D community agree that the field has had more than its share of failure – with some even claiming an unbroken string of failures – little work has gone into understanding...

In 1999, the US and Japan jointly launched the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) into orbit. One of the goals of the ASTER instrument mission was to conduct detailed terrain mapping of...

Don’t forget – today we’re having the December ICT4D Twitter Chat – What Have We Learned From Failure? Starting at 12-noon Eastern Time (noon Eastern around the world) and using the #FailDay hashtag...

Often governments have the idea that that can increase the competitiveness of their country by investing in the ICT industry as an export sector. They are enamored by the success of Silicon Valley in creating wealth and...

Why to Use ASTER Data There are two main reasons to think about going through this process to use ASTER data instead of SRTM3 for RadioMobile wireless link planning: higher resolution, and voids. The higher resolution ASTER...

It should not come as a surprise that Africa is poorly represented in Wikipedia. Most of their articles are written by people personally interested in a subject, and subjects close to home interest most people. And most...