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Twittering the Ghanaian Elections
While the use of Twitter has become increasingly familiar in North America, Europe and many parts of Asia, it is still a very new and relatively unknown...
Ghana just voted yesterday for the Presidential Elections and many observers followed the elections using twitter. Read what happened on Global Voices.
WordPress released an application with which you can blog directly from your iPhone. You can download it form here.
Ive been starting using it!
Can you imagine what does that mean...
The Forum on Mobile Telephony just ended. I think this has been a very interesting discussion, not only for the postings themselves, but mainly for the large number and value of people...
I just changed the image in the header of my blog!
I shot this picture last year, in August, walking on the Bund in Shanghai. China is looking ahead!!!
What do you think?
Mobile Finance: Indigenous, Ingenious or Both?
In Ghana, it's popularly known as susu. In Cameroon, tontines or chilembe. And in South Africa, stokfel. Today, you'd most...
These days we are ending the Forum on Mobile Telephony in Rural Areas with the question: What is your vision for the future? Here we are looking for suggestions for new services or
To have a visual approach to mobile for development, I prepared a map on GoogleMaps to distribute geographically the projects Ive been monitoring so far:
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It would be...
Can the ubiquitous power of mobile phones be used to improve
This paper looks at evidence to support or refute the idea that fixed and mobile telephones is, or could be, an effective...
The summary of the discussions of Week I of the online forum on Mobile Telephony in Rural Area is ready to be downloaded.
This morning I found out that Google interface is changed.
As you can see on the image, new buttons have been added to the screen while reading the list of results.
Three new features...
With his article called Rural communication: Is there still a need for telecentres now that there are mobile phones? Ion Howard of the Association for Progressive Communications (APC)...
Is the school preparing children to address the coming world?
Are development projects addressing new forms of education as effective tools to fight and prevent future poverty and hunger?
Open...
The Forum is up and running.
People from more than 40 different countries already introduced themselves and are ready to share experience, ideas and vision with us.
Join it at http://www.e-agriculture.org/regform.html
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As the online Forum on Mobile Telephony in rural areas is getting closer, the list of projects using mobile is getting longer and longer. I have to thanks the participants to the KM4Dev...
This is an open invitation to take part to the online forum on Mobile Telephony in rural areas which will take place from the 17 to the 28 of November.
Mobile technology for development...
CHANGE seems to be the KEY word all over the world these days.
At FAO, two main events just took place last week. The Organization is undertaking a deep and serious process of internal...
How GoogleMaps mapped the 2008 US elections:
It's Blog Action Day!
Today bloggers everywhere will publish posts that discuss poverty in some way. By all posting on the same day we aim to change the conversation for the day, to...
BBC NEWS | Special Reports | The Box
BBC News is following a container around world for a year to tell story of globalisation and world economy
Is Google Making Us Stupid? - Nicholas Carr
The Web has been a godsend to me as a writer. Research that once required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be...
Chocolate.com
A start-up innovates in an unexpected field
