ICT for Development
Earlier this year, I had the pleasure of working at the Water Resources Management Authority in Embu, Kenya, as a short term consultant on behalf of the GTZ Water Sector Reform Program (WSRP). My main job was to install and maintain a hydrological database software which provides the modeling of the water discharge in Tana River – Kenya’s longest river. [Read more →]
With the year 2008 being declared the International Year of Sanitation (IYS2008), it recently appeared to me that everyone wants to talk about Information Technology (e.g. iPhone, OLPC) – but no one talks about the need for improved toilet facilities worldwide.
I was at the Web4Dev conference in Nairobi, Kenya. The conference brings together people from all over the world to discuss how the web can contribute to development. One overarching topic are the Millennium Development Goals and how information and communication technologies (ICT) can help to achieve them.
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