10 Best Practices to Reach Communities in Complex Emergencies
You arrive at Bangui airport in the Central African Republic (CAR) from headquarters, you switch on your smartphone to tell your family and colleagues that you’ve...
How SMS Messages Revitalize the Lives of Cambodian Youth
While social media and radio are two of the most popular channels among young people in Cambodia, text messaging has remained a basic mean to send and receive short-yet-useful...
How Refugee Saharawis Use ICTs in Their Fight for Independence
The Story of Western Sahara
The formation of the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria, started in 1975, when Spain sold off its former colony to Morocco and...
USAID Practitioners Toolkit: Interactive Radio for Agricultural Development Projects
For decades now, radio has been a dominant source of information for farmers in much of sub-Saharan Africa. Although the reach of radio varies from country to country,...
How Can We Increase Access to ICT, Today?
1. Keep an Open Mind on What is “ICT”
All too often, we get so caught up in what is shiny, flashy, and new, we come to think of just computers, Internet...