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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...

For the December #ICT4D Twitter Chat, we’re looking to learn from our mistakes, find common causes, and brainstorm on how to not repeat them in the future using the #FailDay hashtag on Twitter. We’ll start at...

When we were originally thinking about the promotion strategy for ICTworks, we specifically did not want to give it a presence on Facebook. It was our opinion that Facebook was too much of a walled garden, and didn’t...