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Below are items highlighted on www.iconnect-online.org, as well as a selection of news from www.iicd.org.

 iConnect News
 

Story Telling Goes Digital In Clarendon
This program had at its core an integrated approach to media centre management. By using a knowledge- sharing team-leadership approach, participants learned how to use the containers program as a w...

Utilizing Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) Technology Infrastructure in African Schools
There is the need for Africa countries to put in place strategies to catch up with the rest of the world in modern ICT infrastructure innovative technology. This paper explains how VSAT works, its so...

Cheap and green: biofuels for mobile phone networks
Mobile phone companies in Nigeria and India aim to boost rural development and expand their mobile networks by using biofuels as a cheap and green way to power networks.

Nepal joins the information technology competition
Nepal, following the example of its neighbours India and China, is attempting to transform itself into an information technology (IT) hub. The Nepalese government and local companies hope to encour...

Directory of development organizations 2007
The directory of development organizations, listing 51.500 development organizations, has been prepared to facilitate international cooperation and knowledge sharing in development work, both among c...

Giving away secrets: can open source convert the software world?
For many people in developing countries, commercial software packages are not an option because they are expensive, do not come in local languages and cannot be shared or adapted. Advocates of the Fr...

"Phones-for-Health" Connecting to a Healthy Future
In a cutting-edge $10 million public-private partnership, the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (Emergency Plan/PEPFAR), the GSM Association Development Fund, Accenture Development Part...

New issue of KM4D Journal on bridging knowledge divides: the role of partnerships and cross-cutting initiatives
The current issue of the Knowledge Management for Development (KM4D) Journal on the subject of 'Bridging knowledge divides: the role of partnerships and cross-cutting initiatives' has just been e-pub...

Prenez part à la consultation vers une Stratégie UE-Afrique conjointe !
Participez pour que cette nouvelle stratégie soit un document vivant qui renforce le partenariat entre l'Europe et l'Afrique ! Pour la première fois, l'Union européenne et l'Union africaine...

Join the consultation towards a joint EU-Africa Strategy!
In the year ahead, leading up to the Summit in Lisbon, AU and EU institutions are organizing a broad-based public debate that will generate ideas and suggestions from a large diversity of state and n...



 


 IICD News
 

International Institute for Communication and Development

Multi media: An Effective Teaching Tool
A group of twenty-two teachers from all provinces of Burkina Faso were introduced to the use of multimedia as a teaching tool. For three days, they worked on sound and picture, learning not only how ...

12th Francophone Days for Medical Information Technology
On 11-12 January 2007, the Société Malienne d’Informatique Biomédicale et de Santé (SOMIBS) hosted the 12th Francophone Days for Medical Information Technology (12èmes journées francophones d’informatique médicale) ...

The Zambia Association for Research & Development (ZARD) launch WIDNet website
The Zambia association for Research & Development (ZARD) is pleased to announce the launch of a new website, www.widnet.org.zm under its WIDNet Programme. The Women's Information for Development Net...

First ICT workshop for northern women held
The first ever Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Workshop for women in the Northern region of Ghana has taken place in Tamale, the capital city of the region. The programme was attended ...

ICT4D Jamaica Survey on Entertainment and Music Sector
In a rapid paced environment, the need for research in developing countries is becoming critical to leap frog into the 21st Century with technology and innovation for the greater benefit of the civil...



 


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iConnect Africa
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) is the regional partner for iConnect in Africa.

iConnect Asia
The iConnect regional partner in Asia is the i4d online magazine.


 


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