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08 Mar 2012

The German Government via its Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) released a call to fund research partnerships between German Research institutions and partners in Subsaharan Africa. One of the main goals is to build  African ICT study courses and to fund exploratory measures / pilot measures in  “Applied information and communication technologies (ICT)”  via German-African research partnerships.

If you are a German institution and looking for educational partners in Africa for the call, please check the network “ict@innovation – Creating Business and Learning Opportunities with Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in Africa”. Through this African expert network, you will have access to over 500 ICT multiplier all over Africa, which work at universities, training institutions and other educational institutions as well as the business community.

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Posted by Balthas Seibold

14 Sep 2011

Deutsche Welle Akademie and the “Forum Medien und Entwicklung” (FoME) sincerely invite you to the 6th FoME-Symposium October 25th – 26th 2011 Deutsche Welle, Bonn, Germany

The role of Internet communication for social and political change has taken on a new dimension. Never before has the
impact of digital and social media been discussed so widely as in the context of current social movements like the Arab
Spring, where Internet based communication provided an outlet for voices unheard by the state controlled media systems. The FoME 2011 Symposium will address the question, how the “digital” is changing the production, distribution and consumption of media and it’s potential to contribute to the development of free and independent media in developing countries.

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Posted by Geraldine de Bastion

29 Apr 2011

We have recently published the new issue of the ict4d-Newsletter, including:

Enjoy!

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Posted by Benjamin Barutzki

07 Jan 2011

This personal learning reflection is based on over 7 years of engagement within the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Development sphere notably with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). It aims to spark a critical reflection on initial lessons to be learned exploring (a) why the strategic integration of ICTs is simply not easy while (b) formulating 3 lessons learned for future application. Lessons to spark the discussion include (1) Applying the 7 C’s Approach beyond Infrastructure and Hardware only (2) Overcoming the Mainstreaming Dilemma to Focus on bottom-up strategic integration and (3) Streamlining strategic ICT-Integration approaches with General and Theme-Specific Standard Operating Procedures / Instruments. Many thanks to the GTZ ICT-Team for offering this space!

Join the reflection process at  http://www.sdc-learningandnetworking-blog.admin.ch/2010/12/08/simple-but-not-easy-why-strategic-integration-of-icts-into-development-programmes-is-simply-not-easy/

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Posted by Patrick Kalas

19 Nov 2010

Farmers in Rwanda have asked me how they can access more complex agricultural information on their mobiles, said Paul Barera, Exec. Director, RTN.

Now if that is not a reason for excitement and a call to put our collective minds together, what is?

The statement above was made during a panel discussion on “The Role of Mobile Phones for Rural Economic Development” at the conference on “ICT for Rural Economic Development”. Five experts, with extensive field experience in using mobile telephony for development lead this dynamic discussion. [Read more →]

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Posted by Michael Riggs

15 Oct 2010

title page unctad report 2010Weltwirtschaft und Entwicklung: Die UN-Konferenz für Handel und Entwicklung (UNCTAD) sieht im Sektor der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie (IKT) neue Chancen für die Armutsbekämpfung. Ihr jüngster Bericht zur Informationsökonomie beschreibt, wie im Süden Mikrounternehmen aus dem Boden schießen, die den Boom der Mobiltelefon-Industrie anfeuern, aber auch den Armen neue Hoffnung bieten.
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Posted by Anja Kiefer

19 Feb 2010

The Conference Secretariat:

“The response to the Call for Papers for ‘ICT: Africa’s Revolutionary Tools for the 21st Century?’ has been tremendous and we are anticipating a large audience. For this reason we have had to move the conference location, which has been tricky at this stage with many venues in Edinburgh already booked out. We have secured a new venue, but this has only been possible for a later date. We would therefore like to inform you that the date of the conference has been moved to 4th-5th May. The main details are on the ICT: Africa’s Revolutionary Tools for the 21st Century? http://www.cas.ed.ac.uk/events/annual_conference/2010, with further details to follow in the next couple of days. To make the most of the extra two weeks we now have, the Call for Papers has been kept open until 25th February.”

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Posted by Anja Kiefer

01 Jul 2009

In 2007, Peruvian telecommunications provider Rural Telecom won a government subsidy for a new initiative, Banda Ancha Rural BAR (Rural Broadband Project). The BAR project aims to install broadband internet and phone services via wireless networks in more than 3,000 rural communities. Rural Telecom acquired the entire central and northern central part of the country, and has begun installing 1,654 internet cabins, more than 1,100 public payphones and hundreds of fixed phone lines in over 2,000 communities. FITEL, a national telecommunications fund, subsidises the project with $8.8 million (USD). In addition to this strategic partnership with the Peruvian government, Rural Telecom will expand the project commercially to provide service to thousands of additional private clients.

Compared with other FITEL projects or similar ICT initiatives in other countries, which normally aim to install expensive satellite (VSAT) networks, the BAR project combines the installation of wireless and mobile technologies with an intense sensitisation, training and content generation campaign. Presently, Rural Telecom is carrying out the following activities in conjunction with technical installation: [Read more →]

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Posted by Peter Wolf