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How Africa’s Young Mobile Users Are Driving Twitter Growth in Africa
A new research on How Africa Tweets released today by Portland shows how young people tweeting from mobil
15 Skills African Tech Talent Must Acquire in 2012 (from AppAfrica)
Great list of technical and less technical IT skills that African Tech Talent should focus on in 2012 to ensure their employability.
Reflections & Summaries: Mobile Information Services for Agriculture
Benjamin Kwasi Addom has posted some very insightful reflections and summaries of the online discussions hosted on the
NAIS SMS Platform launched
Zambian Agriculture and Livestock Minister Emmanuel Chenda has called for increased utilization of Information Technology in enhancing agricultural development.  
Gendering of Technology or the technology of gendering?
Sweden's SPIDER organised a seminar/webinar on ICT,  Gender and farming, for which the video is available here:
School computer labs: A bad idea?
Hi all, I'd like to point you to a very insightful article written by the WorldBank's Mike Trucano.
School Timetabling management system
Dear Colleagues, from one of my discussion groups on Free Software FOSS/Innovation somebody shared this interesting application called UniTime at
Seminar on the Role of PTAs in sustaining ICT projects in schools
Savana Signatures is organising a one day seminar on the Role of Parent Teacher Associations (PTA) in sustaining ICT projects in schools.
New ICT Routes to Climate Change Adaptation: Case Studies
Two new case studies analysing ICT applications supporting climate change adaptation are available online at:

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Seeking International Mobile Health Professionals for Paid Fellowship in the US

Deadline: Applications accepted year-round, but apply by February 12 for a June 2012 Fellowship

How Africa’s Young Mobile Users Are Driving Twitter Growth in Africa

A new research on How Africa Tweets released today by Portland shows how young people tweeting from mobil

15 Skills African Tech Talent Must Acquire in 2012 (from AppAfrica)

Great list of technical and less technical IT skills that African Tech Talent should focus on in 2012 to ensure their employability.

Reflections & Summaries: Mobile Information Services for Agriculture

Benjamin Kwasi Addom has posted some very insightful reflections and summaries of the online discussions hosted on the

Mobile phones account for almost half of social network traffic

Half or even more of all social networking traffic comes from mobile devices. This statistic proves that the use of cell phone apps will continue improving.
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Computer based training delivery framework - any suggestions?

Do you happen to know a free and open source framework to be used in computer based training, with some of the following functionalities? - Both online or offline usage.

How can ICT effectively incoperate the traditional communication channels.

Traditional communication channels have over the years proved very effective and sustainable among the local populations of Eastern and Southern Africa.

Rural and Slum women and ICT. Opportunities and challeges.

The topic of gender and ICT for development is critical to understand so that opportunities open to women to improve on their welbeing and subsquently achieve sustainable development and...
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Content from ICT & Livelihoods Events

Let's use this space to share content related to experiences, learning and practice from particular ICT & Livelihoods Events. Please feel free to add!

iConnect Livelihoods general wiki

This space is for collaborative knowledge management on all topics related to ICT-for-Livelihoods.

iConnect Innovation general wiki

This space is for collaborative knowledge management on all topics related to ICT-for-Innovation.

iConnect Governance general wiki

This space is for collaborative knowledge management on all topics related to ICT-for-Governance.

iConnect Gender general wiki

This space is for collaborative knowledge management on all topics related to ICT-for-Gender.
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Three research papers African Farm Radio Research Initiative

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ICT AS A VOCATION

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has inevitably become the most powerful engine that drives development in developed, developing and even under developed nations in the...

VC4Africa launches new tools for entrepreneurs

 By Bill Zimmerman on December 1, 2011
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Recent Resources

A Practical Approach to ICT for Development. Perspectives from the SAFIPA Programme

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The SAFIPA final publication,  marking the conclusion of the SAFIPA programme,

ICT in Agriculture e-Sourcebook (InfoDev)

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Manual
The ICT in Agriculture e-Sourcebook is intended to offer agriculture and other development practitioners a set of tested solutions, good practices, and methodologies, along with promising applicati

Mobile Phone Technology improving Health Care

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Publication
This bibliography covers information from a wide variety of sources on the topic of mHealth, including websites, journal articles, newspaper reports, books and videos.

Savana Signatures Trains Headteachers in Basic ICT

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This video resource is about a three weeks ICT capacity building that was organsied for some selected heateachers/ basic school administrators in Tamale in the Northern Region of Ghana.

Experiences of a Business woman on ICT Training and ICT Use

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In this video, Mrs. Rita Dampson, a shea butter processor tells her story on her experiences of learning ICTs
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