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Fill the Gap! ICT a catalyst for regional growth – Etisalat. The Etisalat Group unveiled its vision for regional economies to catalyze rapid growth and achieve national development goals through a coordinated response to ICT. Essa Alhaddad, chief commercial officer, Etisalat Group briefing an audience on the value of ICT in driving economic growth and stimulating innovation (image: Etisalat) The Middle East’s largest telecommunications company shared its blueprint for a modern economy to a think-tank of regional decision-makers at the Harvard Arab Alumni Annual Meeting held at the St. Regis Hotel, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi. The opening address to the Etisalat sponsored event was delivered by His Excellency Dr Anwar Gargash, minister of state for foreign affairs and minister of Federal National Council affairs, who was immediately followed by Essa Alhaddad, chief commercial officer at Etisalat Group who presented the operator’s ICT strategy.

Staff Writer. Airtel powers Africa Movies Academy Awards. Leading telecommunications services provider, Airtel Nigeria, has been confirmed as the official sponsor of the African Movies Academy Awards (AMAA) by the organisers of the event. Representatives from AMAA and Airtel at a recent media conference to discuss the partnership (image: Airtel) The mobile operator was unveiled in Lagos during the week to the media at a press conference to announce the partnership and provide update on the pan African academy Awards scheduled for April 22 at the Expo Hall of Eko Hotel and Suites, Lagos. Speaking at the event, the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Rajan Swaroop said through the partnership AMAA provides the company with a good platform to celebrate and reward excellence in the African film and movie industry, in addition to giving it a perfect opportunity to contribute Airtel’s quota to the development of African film and cinema industry.

“Our partnership with Airtel is a brand alignment that actually works for us. Staff Writer. A new smart-phone interface and text-messaging app for the illiterate farmers - India. Information Society - Digital Agenda Scoreboard. Information society statistics. Data from August 2012. Most recent data: Further Eurostat information, Main tables and Database. Figure 1: Internet access and broadband internet connections by households, EU-27, 2006-2011(% of all households) - Source: Eurostat (isoc_pibi_hiac) and (isoc_pibi_hba) Figure 2: Internet access of households, 2010 and 2011(% of all households) - Source: Eurostat (isoc_ci_in_h) Table 2: Place of internet use, 2011(% of internet users aged 16 to 74) - Source: Eurostat (isoc_pibi_pai) Figure 4: Individuals who ordered goods or services over the internet for private use in the 12 months prior to the survey, 2010-2011(% of individuals aged 16 to 74) - Source: Eurostat (isoc_ec_ibuy) Figure 5: Use of internet for social networking, learning, civic and political participation, by age group, EU-27, 2011(% of individuals) - Source: Eurostat (isoc_bde15cua) Table 3: Computer skills of individuals, 2011(% of individuals) - Source: Eurostat (isoc_sk_cskl_i) Main statistical findings Enterprises Context.

LIFT12 Conference - Village Telco. 2n. ICT4Drinks in Barcelona. Invalid quantity. Please enter a quantity of 1 or more. The quantity you chose exceeds the quantity available. Please enter your name. Please enter an email address. Please enter a valid email address. Please enter your message or comments. Please enter the code as shown on the image. Please select the date you would like to attend. Please enter a valid email address in the To: field. Please enter a subject for your message. Please enter a message. You can only send this invitations to 10 email addresses at a time. $$$$ is not a properly formatted color. Please limit your message to $$$$ characters. $$$$ is not a valid email address. Please enter a promotional code. Sold Out Pending You have exceeded the time limit and your reservation has been released. The purpose of this time limit is to ensure that registration is available to as many people as possible.

This option is not available anymore. Please read and accept the waiver. All fields marked with * are required. US Zipcodes need to be 5 digits. Women in technology solicit support for rural partners. The Association of Information and Communications Technology women practitioners, under the flagship of Women in Technology in Nigeria (WITIN), has disclosed its plans to rally support for women who trade at markets within rural areas. The group’s chairperson, Martha Omoekpen Alade (image: Bikyamasr) This was unfolded by the group’s chairperson, Martha Omoekpen Alade in a statement to the prss in Lagos.

The rally, according to the group, would create web presence for such women to enable their wares or businesses to receive global attention. They explained that rural women contribute critically to household production, national food security and agricultural development in general. Sadly, most of these women are poverty stricken, while others struggle with illiteracy and language difficulty. Alade noted that linking rural women closely to the global market will tackle some of these challenges and go a long way to empower these women economically and socially. Segun Adekoye. Upcoming seminar to assess the future potential of mobile technology in agriculture. Stockholm, Sweden.

Why Mobile Ads in Emerging Markets are the Future [INFOGRAPHIC] There are 5.3 billion mobile subscribers around the world, meaning 77% of the world's population uses a phone. The majority of those users — 3.8 billion or 73% of the group — live in emerging economies. Yet mobile advertising dollars spent around the world do not begin to compete with traditional platforms or Internet ads. As the Internet spreads throughout the developing world, it's arriving on phones before traditional computers. Some 70% of Internet users in Egypt, 59% in India, 57% in South Africa, 50% in Ghana and 44% in Indonesia get online via mobile phones alone.

This Jana infographic poses a question for advertisers — how will relevant content be delivered via mobile device? One idea: in Brazil, 74% of mobile users said they would like to receive advertisements in their devices in exchange for voice minutes. Do you have an answer to Jana's question? Thumbnail image courtesy of iStockphoto, hadynyah.

Wireless Wednesday: sharing agricultural knowledge in Kenya. Next2us. CITI Project on Broadband as a Platform for Video in Africa. COLUMBIA INSTITUTE FOR TELE-INFORMATION Columbia University Business SchoolIn Arms-Length Partnership with Private Sector companies, and other Academic & Research Institutions This conference examines the role and prospects of broadband in Africa as a video platform - the strategies and building blocks for deployment and advancement. According to the World Bank, the growth of international internet connectivity in Africa has outpaced the global average by nearly 2 to 1. But a new challenge is already ahead: the next-generation of broadband networks capable of video applications. While it may seem that such networks and their applications are not a realistic scenario for developing countries, it would be short-sighted and economically dangerous to ignore the emerging trends.

The pace of introduction of next-gen networks in industrialized countries is rapid and the developing world will not stand aside. Day 1: 22 May 2012: Intercontinental Hotel 8:30 Plenary Session Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. World News: How the developing world is using cellphone technology to change lives. In Nigeria, a young girl can ask questions about sex discretely through SMS and get accurate information. After the earthquake in Haiti, survivors in remote towns could receive money for food straight to their cellphone. In Senegal, election monitors sent updates on polling stations through their mobile phones, revising an online map in real time with details about late openings or worse. Projects like Learning about Living in Nigeria, MercyCorps in Haiti and Senevote2012 in Senegal are just a few examples of how the rapid spread of mobile technology has changed life in the global south. Many places are jumping straight from paper records to mobile information because they are getting cellphone towers before Internet connections or even traditional phone lines.

This means that for the first time it’s possible for a doctor in Guatemala City to monitor a newborn baby in a rural part of the country. In 2001, just eight out of 100 people in the developing world had a mobile phone subscription. Guestpost: Business Models, Entrepreneurship, and Poverty Alleviation in Kenya. This guestpost tells the special story of how Sebastián Salinas Claro and Joshua Bicknel connected across the globe on the Business Model Hub. They joined efforts in their aim to defeat poverty by teaching entrepreneurship. The results are amazing. By Sebastián Salinas Claro (with Douglas Cochrane and Joshua Bicknell): My recent journey illustrates the power of social networks and how linkedin and the Business Model Hub brought me to Kenya - all the way from Chile. It was a fascinating experience that all started when I contacted Alex on Linkedin.

In August Joshua Bicknel browsed the pages of the Business Model Hub and came across my post. Since then we have been working with unemployed youth supporting them to imagine and design innovative new businesses that create employment and defeat poverty. One such occasion was in a session with the Salgaa Sparks youth group. Throughout their lives these youth have been excluded because of their social and economic background. Ethnosproject. Euro-Africa Cooperation Forums on ICT Research - Portugal. Next Euro-African FP7/ICT awareness workshop - Lesotho. Media (R)evolutions: Global Internet Use | Exploring the interactions among public opinion, governance, and the public sphere.

Our Top Ten Blog Posts by Readership in 2012 Originally published on April 4, 2012 New developments and curiosities from a changing global media landscape: People, Spaces, Deliberation brings trends and events to your attention that illustrate that tomorrow's media environment will look very different from today's, and will have little resemblance to yesterday's. Note: *Estimate The world is home to 7 billion people, one third of which are using the Internet. 45% of the world’s Internet users are below the age of 25.Over the last five years, developing countries have increased their share of the world’s total number of Internet users from 44% in 2006, to 62% in 2011.

Source: ITU. Coders4Africa In Action: Python African Tour. Invalid quantity. Please enter a quantity of 1 or more. The quantity you chose exceeds the quantity available. Please enter your name. Please enter an email address. Please enter a valid email address. Please enter your message or comments. Please enter the code as shown on the image. Please select the date you would like to attend. Please enter a valid email address in the To: field. Please enter a subject for your message. Please enter a message. You can only send this invitations to 10 email addresses at a time. $$$$ is not a properly formatted color.

Please limit your message to $$$$ characters. $$$$ is not a valid email address. Please enter a promotional code. Sold Out Pending You have exceeded the time limit and your reservation has been released. The purpose of this time limit is to ensure that registration is available to as many people as possible. This option is not available anymore. Please read and accept the waiver. All fields marked with * are required. US Zipcodes need to be 5 digits. Map. Launching the New Wiki and Video Initiatives. I dream of Ushahidi community members sharing best practices and mentoring others to change their world. To make this more possible, we have a new wiki and video channel. Both community zones are available for all of you to collaborate and share content. But, most of all, build, spread and change Ushahidi.

Ushahidi exists to give people voice. Video and wiki toys are key to amplifying your experience and sharing with others. Join the Ushahidi wiki community Ushahidi’s community has been without a home to connect, share and collaborate. The wiki has three major purposes: Overview of Use Cases/Types of Maps, Community Sharing(e.g. The main reason we’ve moved the wiki is that it gives you (FINALLY) a community interaction zone: You can collaborate and share knowledge in one space.You can create your own Ushahidi user profiles.You can connect with others who share your common interests.You can blog, comment and create to help build and spread Ushahidi. Take a wiki software tour: Heather. Education and development in a world of networks. The Future Of Mobile [DECK] ‘Smart farming’ in Africa: Mobile telecoms revolution. EmailTemp.jpg. Llegó la hora; se viene el NGO Day 2012 - 4to Encuentro de tecnología para ONG´s: “La tecnología al servicio de las causas sociales” organizado por Microsoft y Wingu el próximo 17 de abril en el Centro Metropolitano de Diseño.

Podés inscribirte y elegir las sesiones con antelación haciendo click acá. Como en otros años, el objetivo del encuentro es reflexionar sobre la potencia de la tecnología en el trabajo cotidiano de las organizaciones sin fines de lucro, tanto en su gestión interna como en el trabajo con los beneficiarios. En esta oportunidad además de charlas generales sobre creatividad y tecnología aplicadas a ONGs, habrá talleres temáticos de redes sociales, CRM, recaudación de fondos y comunicaciones 3.0, y mucho más. Durante el almuerzo podrás conocer otras ONGs e intercambiar experiencias de acuerdo a 6 temas de interés: salud, educación, medioambiente, desarrollo local, gobierno y transparencia, juventud y tecnología, y crowdfunding. ¡Te esperamos! Visitá la web del encuentro. Beta.

Local content in Africa, three ways. Where is knowledge being created? Who has access to this knowledge? Researchers Viktor Mayer-Schonberger and Mark Graham, along with Dr. Corinne Flick and the Convoco Foundation in cooperation with Oxford Internet Institute, decided to visualize a variety of answers to these important questions.

In regards to Africa, there are no surprises in terms of literacy rates, Internet penetration rates, the number of national newspapers, or the lack of academic publications. Still, of special interest are the attempts to map Flickr, Google, and Wikipedia content generation. Number of geotagged photos on Flickr per country (when available) {CC BY-NC-ND} There are relatively few geotagged photos uploaded from Africa, even in areas of high population density (ie. This map visualizes the amount of user-generated content indexed by Google in 2009 in a sample of 250,000 points around the world. In 2009, Google indexed very few articles from Africa.

Wikipedia edits from 2011 to January 2012. Why we should fund ICT for education. Technology, as a driver of educational reform in developing countries, has seen many false dawns. The Internet today provides access to a wealth of resources, yet most centers of education – especially in Africa – still suffer from acute bandwidth constraints, and teaching staff struggle to identify resources that are both relevant and available.

Likewise, devices of one kind or another have been heralded as step changes in the way students learn, yet the right combination of functionality and affordability has so far been elusive – until now. In October 2011, the Indian government launched a seven-inch tablet computer called the Aakash at a price of US$35, or $65 before subsidy. By all accounts, the device was not perfect, but it went a long way in satisfying the functionality and affordability requirements. But will they? The reality is that old habits die hard, and the spread of high-speed Internet is uneven, especially in countries with low per-capita income.

Read more: ALIN wins the UNESCO-IPDC Prize for Rural Communication. Connecting,Empowering & Grouping Farmers | MFarm Kenya. Windows 7 is Now the Most Popular Operating System in Kenya | Techmtaa. Cometh the hour. Cometh the technology. TICs para Desarrollo | en Latino América. Crisis Mapping and Early Warning. A Water Drop Microscope for the XO Laptop. Our Modern Toolkit: Free and Open Source Tools for Social Impact. Mobilemediatoolkit. Internet Buttons | Welcome. 2012 Infopoverty World Conference: Who Drives the Digital Revolution? Development Through Innovation. Kenya’s Safaricom upgrading mobile money service. WhiteAfrican : What’s on Tap for 2012. Ictd2012Frias. Nigerian telcos blame taxes for slow development. Globacom installs broadband in another Nigeria city. African Union Research Grant Programme: Call for proposal 2012.

Last week the n… « Laptop Burns. Webinar 2012. Aprendizaje Ubicuo. ICT-led Interventions to boost Agriculture in Uganda. "ICTs Along the Ag Value Chain" database relased by GBI. March ICT4Drinks in NYC - International development- Eventbrite. Broadband tariffs in Latin America and the Caribbean: Benchmarking ... Ictreport2011. ICT4D and Sustainability. Nigerian government commits to 2015 digital economy. Question 4. ICTD 2012: Does Openness Enhance Development? - Open ICT for Development. In pictures: Mobile phones boost Ivory Coast cashew nuts. Infographic: Mobile Phones Tackling Poverty. Think Pieces | Gender-IS-Citizenship. Foursquare switches from Google Maps to OpenStreetMap. ICT for climate-smart agriculture and "green growth": Online forum 5-16 March 2012. Educational technology and innovation at the edges | A World Bank Blog on ICT use in Education. Less Than 10% Of The Web In 2012 Is Mobile Ready.

Millennials will benefit and suffer due to their hyperconnected lives. International Development 2.0. Mobile Agriculture: the Market Opportunity (session at Mobile World) Digital revolution needed for agriculture says Bill Gates. Library - CaLP. Cybernauts.com | Business Strategy Consulting, Enterprise Developers and ICT experts. Ict4drinks, Barcelona, Ict4d, Bcn tweets | Jaume Fortuny Twitter. WSIS Project Prizes 2012: cast your vote and support the e-Agriculture Community! APC WNSP | Women's Networking Support Program | Feminist Mix With A Tech Fix.

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