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Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D)
October 23
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October 13
Even the more urban areas of Africa lack a decent infrastructure whilst mobile broadband will probably be a welcomed temporary fix it cannot deliver the kinda of bandwidth users desire. Especially as online services that are hosted outside of Afri...
September 15
Group dedicated to Low cost broadband access and infrastrucure
September 15
Anthony Shapley is now a member of Digital world forum
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gottot and Emmanuel Ofori Oppong joined Digital world forum
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Digital World Forum on Accessible and Inclusive ICT ('Digital World Forum') is a FP7 European project focusing on the use of ICT to leverage economic development in Africa and Latin America.

Providing minimal services (health, education, business, government, etc.) to rural communities and under-privileged populations is of major importance to improve people lives, and to sustain development. Using ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) would be the easiest and possibly only way to develop and deploy those services.

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Segopotso

An Agenda for Cooperation between Africa/Developing World and Europe

One of the key deliverables of the Digital World Forum project is a technology roadmap on low cost information access devices. A roadmap describes a future environment, objectives to be achieved with that environment, and plans for how those objectives will be pursued over time. It is, therefore, a forecast of paths that might be followed to achieve a desired objective; in this case: low cost information access devices that contribute to socio-economic development in the developing world.… Continue

Posted by Segopotso on June 15, 2009 at 12:17pm

Jan Herder

The Value Proposition in a Knowledge Economy

Here is a project I am working on, and it came up with an interesting take on creating a knowledge economy. What is the value Proposition in a Knowledge Economy? You could call it a "Teacher/Learner Economy." Simply stated the drive to gain good employment as a Teacher/Facilitator of 21st Literacy's will help pay for the Teachers/facilitators that will be needed. This is scaled up through virtual eLearning and ubiquitous free wireless broadband and low cost, low wattage wireless computers. The c… Continue

Posted by Jan Herder on May 14, 2009 at 3:21pm — 1 Comment

Mangin

Low Cost Information Access Devices Discussions

Following the discussions that took place in the Low Cost Information Access Devices Group, we defined three themes that we think could guide the discussions that take place on the forum in order to be more efficient.

The three themes we define for the Parallel Discussions are the followings:

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Posted by Mangin on April 22, 2009 at 11:30am

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  • Karan Bhandari
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Flora Mhene

Low Cost Technology For Development 1 Reply

Started by Flora Mhene. Last reply by Mangin May 28.

Mangin

Ideas and opinions on the Platform

Started by Mangin Nov. 25, 2008.

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