This month we have some new gadgets and a collection of writings about Internet connectivity in developing countries.
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Reading list for December 2014
Here we go again, here as some pointers to read during the Christmas holidays break 😉 Stop Trying to Save the World is an essay by Michael Hobbes which goes over the danger of scaling up big ideas, the need to…
Tagged with: complex adaptive systems, ICT4D, Michael Hobbes, Millennium Development Goals, NGO
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Posted in Reading
DownScale 2014 and OpenDevelopmentCamp 2014
It is already two weeks since DownScale 2014 took place on the 8th of October and OpenDevelopmentCamp 2014 followed up on the 9th and 10th. 3 days packed with great new insights and inspiring talks. DownScale 2014 was the third…
Symposium “Perspectives on ICT4D”
On 16 May 2014, The Network Institute, Computer Science Department and International Office of VU Amsterdam organize a symposium on ICT4D, the quickly growing field of practice and study how Information and Communication Technologies influence and may contribute to social…
ICT 4 Development course final presentations
This friday, a brand new course at the VU University Amsterdam came to a satisfying close. The ICT 4 Development course (ICT4D) was offered to VUA Computer Science students for the first year and I feel it was a success. The…
Tagged with: ICT4D, iran, iraq, mali, namibia, radiomarche, teaching, voices, voicexml, vu amsterdam, xo laptop
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Posted in Uncategorized
Development Linked Data (DLD) Community Group launched!
The Development Linked Data (DLD) community group will discuss the publication of data related to development as 5-star Linked Data. Discussions will initially be organised around the following topics: Open Development data sets: What are the development related data sets…
