ICT for development
Partners for progress, in southern Africa
Ungana-Afrika is looking for organisations interested in eRiding in Southern Africa. Do you have what it takes?
CEPES, Peru: Rolling out the applications for action in the Andes
CEPES, the Peruvian Centre for Social Studies, is unrolling web projects one after the other. For the last three years, the Peruvian APC member has been promoting website solutions for a variety of actors working in Peru’s rural and often remote districts. Small farmers, passionate environmentalists and civil servants from the Ministry of Agriculture have discovered the ActionApps content management system (CMS). "We’ve been spreading the web-based tool as a way to support rural development," says a passionate Carlos Saldarriaga, CEPES representative to APC.
Resources for sustainability of non-profits now available online
SANGONeT has gathered a collection of resources on sustainability for NGOs, ranging from information on Monitoring and Evaluation and the importance of Credibility and Ethics to matters such as Social Responsibility and Entrepreneurship as well as tips relating to practical concerns that others have encountered when grappling with how to implement effective Communication and Marketing strategies and sound Financial Management techniques in their organisations.
Speed-geeking: your date with development?
You’ve probably heard of speed-dating: after a two minute chat with a stranger, you decide if you wish to give him or her your phone number for continued contact. Likewise, speed-geeking is a tech introduction-in-a-hurry. Some 11 interesting projects — including APC members — got a chance to introduce themselves to participants of Africa Source II, in January 2006 in Kalangala, a picturesque but really-remote island in Lake Victoria, Uganda.
Strategic technology planning toolkit from Ungana-Afrika
APC member Ungana-Afrika have been providing strategic technology planning services to the development community in Southern Africa for nearly three years. The processes have been refined through experience, and are presented here in their current form to assist other technology support providers to implement technology planning in their own context.
From Sri Lanka, impatient with "pilots"...
Sri Lankan journalist Nalaka Gunawardene has this interestingly-argued piece Waiting for Pilots to Land in Tunis on the IslamOnline.net site, that has some blunt questions to ask around the question: "Are Pilot Projects Helping Development".
While in Tunis...
But I've many interesting experiences at Source: APC ICT Policy Handbook and APC Annual Report 2005.">WSIS
. For example, one evening inTunis I was travelling back to my hotel by bus and the lady who was sitting
next to me was talking to me in French. When I've problems explaining
things in French, she started speaking to me in English and informed me
that she used to work with a writer group in USA.
The forgotten agenda...
With the focus at Tunis largely on who controls the Net, and the
far-from-sophisticated control mechanisms of Tunisian society, the issue of
what the Net can -- and is -- doing for the excluded in the planet might
have taken a back seat. Disparity in accessing the levers of communication is markedly sharp. But interesting stories are coming in about what's possible from various parts of the globe --
Africa: divide within the divide
Only 11% of African people have a fixed line telephone, 12% of African people questioned have a mobile telephone, less than 3% have an Style information: Do not use e-mail with a hyphen.
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Snapshot: Ana María Ponce (.pe)
She's a Peruvian heading towards The Mountain Forum in Nepal. The forum is particularly created as a medium of alternative communication for mountainous areas, which is why, since its conception, it has specifically used the Source: TechSoup Glossary and GenderIT.org">internet
as a communication tool between the participating people and communities that constitute the different nodes.
