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Acacia and Connectivity Africa: Innovations for ICTs in Africa. |
| 2009. Length: 9m59s. English/Arabic/French/Swahili with English Subtitles. This 10 minute video presents an overview of a number of projects supported by Connectivity Africa. Connectivity Africa was designed to promote research, development and innovation in the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for progress in Africa, focusing on the areas of education, health and the economy. It was implemented by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), in partnership with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA). For more information: http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-85759-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html Directed by Rana Ghose and Connectivity Africa. |
| Date: 2009-10-29 15:36:38 - Ajouté par: Ruud Crul |
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Connect Africa Zambia |
| Connect Africa Zambia has developed a best for purpose ICT and logistics infrastructure to facilitate the delivery of multiple services to rural communities in Africa. |
| Date: 2009-10-23 13:27:27 - Ajouté par: Ruud Crul |
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Tanzania - Demo of mobile phones in the ICT BITES project |
| Welcome to this presentation about the use of mobile phones in a project for in-service teacher education in Tanzania. In the presentation I show you how learning material can be accessed using a mobile phone. Some of the material is pre-loaded on the memory cards in the phones; in that case the phones are used as media players. Some of the material is downloaded through the mobile phone network. The memory cards are preloaded with overviews of each course section/module (narrated slide shows), study guides ( text with a Java book reader). All text material is also available as voice (synthetic voice). Film clips downloaded from the Internet (YouTube:-). are also preloaded on the memory cards. Quizzes from the Moodle LMS used in the courses have been exported in a form possible to use in all mobile phones handling Java. Additional quizzes can be downloaded to the phones using 3G or GPRS from the site http://ictbites.mobi Results from the quizzes are send by SMS to the teacher of the course. For more information about the project, please visit http://sites.google.com/site/ictbites/ If you have a general interest in mobile learning you are welcome to visit my blog about m-learning at http://m-e-learning.blogspot.com/ |
| Date: 2009-10-22 11:41:11 - Ajouté par: Ruud Crul |
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The wireless camel - Mobile phones in Sudan |
| See a short movie about mobile phones in Sudan, the business around phones and the companies behind it. The movie gives an insight in the way the mobile phone has altered the Sudanese landscape. |
| Date: 2009-10-20 15:31:01 - Ajouté par: Ruud Crul |
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Local Content, Radio and Nakaseke CMC Uganda |
| Peter Balaba and Jimmy Ssenabulya of Nakaseke Community Multimedia Centre talk about how they use Local Content in their radio programmes, targeting and working ... ent=720 images.blip.tvPetecranston-LocalContentAndNakasekeCMC158-25.jpg 8-25.jpg ef=http:e.blip.tvscriptsflashshowplayer.swf?file=http:blip.tvrssflash2664673 |
| Date: 2009-10-19 15:00:01 - Ajouté par: Ruud Crul |
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M-PESA mobile money tranfer in Kenya on VOA In Focus |
| VOA's Cathy Majtenyi reports on Kenya's new mobile telephone system that allows one to transfer money. |
| Date: 2009-10-16 18:11:27 - Ajouté par: Ruud Crul |
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Cheap Mobile Tools for Human Rights - Ken Banks |
| Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/05/05/PDAs_and_Phones_for_Data_Collection Ken Banks, founder of Kiwanja.net, discusses the long tail economics of producing cheap mobile devices to advance human rights. He demonstrates FrontlineSMS, which enables NGOs instantaneous two-way communication on a large scale. ----- Recent innovations in science and technology have provided human rights advocates, journalists, and scientists with new tools to expose war crimes and other serious violations of human rights and to disseminate this information in real time throughout the world. The Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley is pleased to showcase these recent developments and push new frontiers of applied research. - UC Berkeley Human Rights Center Ken Banks, founder of kiwanja.net, devotes himself to the application of mobile technology for positive social and environmental change in the developing world, and has spent the last 15 years working on projects in Africa. Recently, his research resulted in the development of FrontlineSMS, a field communication system designed to empower grassroots non-profit organisations. Banks graduated from Sussex University with honours in Social Anthropology with Development Studies, and was awarded a Reuters Digital Vision Fellowship in 2006, and named a Pop!Tech Social Innovation Fellow in 2008. Banks's work has been supported by the MacArthur Foundation and Open Society Institute, and he is the current recipient of a grant from the Hewlett Foundation. Further details of Banks's wider work are available on his website at www.kiwanja.net |
| Date: 2009-10-16 17:20:03 - Ajouté par: Ruud Crul |
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Busy Internet Ghana |
| Business Incubation: a tool for enabling innovation and entrepreneurship. -- BusyInternet launched its Busy incubator program early 2005, with support from the infoDev Program. The first of its kind in West Africa, this small business incubation program is designed to increase the chances of survival of young companies by providing them with a good opportunity to grow in a supportive and nurturing environment. To date, 25 companies have been successfully hosted at BusyInternet. Currently, there are 10 companies located at the BusyInternet facilities, which provides connectivity solutions, software development, management consulting, entrepreneurship development, business process outsourcing, computer based test preparation, and administration and web-based applications development. On a broader level, program objectives are to promote economic growth by fostering private sector development through helping existing incubators in developing countries to improve performance in order to achieve higher 'survival rates' of incubated companies, growth and sustainability, creating synergy between incubators in developing countries, based on improved knowledge, networking and capacity building, as well as capacity building within enterprises to enhance their competitiveness, including trade competitiveness in the global business environment. The World Bank - InfoDev Video Case Study |
| Date: 2009-10-12 15:01:58 - Ajouté par: Ruud Crul |
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Cell Phone Use in Mozambique |
| Cell phone use has risen twenty fold in Mozambique since the government began to open up the telecommunications market in 2001. The World Bank has helped Mozambique draw up new telecommunication laws, paving the way for full liberalization by Decenmber 2007. |
| Date: 2009-10-12 14:28:24 - Ajouté par: Ruud Crul |
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Every Liberian Wants a Cell Phone |
| But there is no power, so recharge centers do brisk business |
| Date: 2009-10-12 14:23:49 - Ajouté par: Ruud Crul |
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