In it’s bid to increase information accessibility to its customers, MTN {largest mobile operator in Africa and the Middle East} has introduced a smarter way of accessing information on their mobile phones. With GoogleSMS, all a client has to do is to send an SMS on any idea and get an instant answer.
For instance, if one wants to buy or sell something, get news updates {both local and international}, advice on sexual and reproductive health, agriculture and farming tips and many others, all the…
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Added by Sandra Nassali on July 9, 2009 at 7:30am —
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Infomediaries (Telecentre worker) should be a good communicator as they are the vital part of a telecentre. Their communication skill can make a telecentre initiatives successful. Infomediary should have clear idea about an issue before providing information to the community people. They…
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Added by Fatema Begum Labony on July 9, 2009 at 7:00am —
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The UK (And I think all governments should find out) government set out its target within the Greening ICT Strategy, which calls for government IT to be carbon neutral by 2012, with office carbon emissions down 11.5% by 2011.
The report, The Path to Green Government, was produced by Global Action Plan and commissioned by Cisco. It found that 60% of respondents to the questionnaire were not aware of the government’s strategy, with 41% of national government respondents not even being aware of th…
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Added by Owino Fredrick on July 9, 2009 at 3:30am —
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The increase in pirate activity during April and May 2009, both in terms of intensity and geographical coverage, necessitated a change in SEACOM’s cable installation plans which resulted in a delay in the ready for service date from 27 June 2009 to 23 July 2009. The planned route required the ship to transit an area of increased pirate activity where other ships had been attacked or seized.
The cable deployment in the troublesome waters has since been completed and splicing to connect the secti…
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Added by Sandra Nassali on July 8, 2009 at 7:00am —
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eINDIA Awards (
http://www.eindia.net.in/awards/2009/) aim to honour the distinguished professionals and institutions working in the domains of e-Agriculture, e-Governance, Digital Learning, eHealth, Telecentre, and Municipal Information Technology (IT). The eINDIA Awards aim to recognise exemplary and innovative projects which demonstrate the use and application of information and communication technology (ICT) that have transfo…
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Added by Sabyasachi Kashyap on July 8, 2009 at 12:30am —
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From
2 to 5th of June, the
Global Curriculum Development Workshop was held in
Singapore, and was attended by representatives of different world organizations participating in the Global telecentre.org Academy (GTA). GTA is a project lead by Telecentre.org and created to provide
support and training to people working in ICT centers around the world.
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Added by Marta Mans on July 7, 2009 at 6:54am —
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On March the 17th, 2009, a group of young professionals, area politicians and local leaders converged at the Islands Club on Bugala of the Ssese Islands to discuss the use Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to bridge the information gap on the island district of Kalangala. Ms. Natalie Kimbugwe of BDE Consult conceived the idea of involving, training and sensitising local leaders to the value of ICT after discovering that the only Internet provider and Information Centre on the isla…
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Added by Edwin Galiwango on July 7, 2009 at 3:48am —
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Invites all digital content initiatives from Afghanistan,Bangladesh,Bhutan,India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan & Srilanka.
Last date for filling in nominations July 31, 2009.
Please see the site and forward it to your friends.
http://www.manthanaward.org/other_full_story.asp?id=25
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Added by Munira Morshed Munni on July 7, 2009 at 3:14am —
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Hi Everyone,
Many of you have discovered or learned about the Magic Number 7.
I'm sure you've heard of "7 Habits of Highly Effective People."
Hei, there are 7 days in a week
Oh ya, there are "7 Deadly Sins" ... Woooo...!
The soft drink "7Up" became popular after changing its name from "
Bib-label Lithiate Lemon-Lime Soda.' Ummm ... Ya. No wonder...
Haiiiii .... yattt...!! "The 7 Samurai" of Akira Kurosawa ... and then adapted as "The Magnificent 7" of John Sturges with the Bang...bang…
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Added by Zulfikar Mochamad Rachman on July 7, 2009 at 12:30am —
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Modern ICTs are increasingly becoming important instruments that facilitate access to social and economic information for development around the world. Multi-purpose telecenters or simply community telecenters are service delivery centers for livelihood development. However, in some African countries, telecenters and development projects alike operate in isolation and at times do not benefit from various opportunities and resources that exist around themselves.
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Added by Dean Mulozi on July 6, 2009 at 10:12pm —
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I was bound to stop my education in 2008 due to financial crisis of my family. I was a student of class seven and my family consists of seven members. I was in frustration and very anxious about my future life. Oneday I heard that Digonter Dak Pallitathya Kendra (Rural Information Centre) was offering ` sewing Training Course’ for the rural women with a little amount of money. I took the chance without making any late. Finally I completed the training and working with sewing machine in my ho…
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Added by Asad-Uz-Zaman Asad on July 5, 2009 at 1:55pm —
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telecentre Arabic site blog contest resulttelecentre.org Arabic site has the pleasure to announce the Arabic blog contest ,which took place between 5-30 to the 30/6/2009 we have 17 entyy/blog.
with reference to committee of jury headed by
Mr. Ashraf Kadah to assess the appropriate selection of participants and the most relevant topics of the contest and the competition was to choose its own commitment to…
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Added by Rasha El Baz on July 5, 2009 at 10:23am —
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What do we and our farmers need?
Obviously food.
What else for food and food security?
Perhaps a long list…………………….
Needs brain storming?
Let us think simply on it!

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Added by Md. Saiful Islam on July 5, 2009 at 5:00am —
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Date : 8th July 2009
Time : 8.30 Am - 5.00 Pm
Venue : Agro Technology Park - Gannoruwa-( Audio Visual Centre)
Conduct By:
Dr. Rohan Wijekoon
Assisant Director of Agriculture
Morning Session: Visiting Agriculture Technology Park
This will give a brief understanding of Sri Lankan agriculture
Learning Method: Demonstrations
Evening Session: Lectures on
Use of IMM CDs for agriculture technology transfer
Cyber Agriculture Wikipedia
Cyber Agriculture Extension mechanism
Suresh Gamage
Hureekaduwa…
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Added by Gamage Suresh Priyadharshana on July 4, 2009 at 10:02am —
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Accessibility to education for every one is must for a society’s proper development. We just can’t leave (our brother and sisters) those who are psychically challenged. They can make difference! We have to make sure they got the same opportunity as we do.
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Added by Subir Das on July 4, 2009 at 7:24am —
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As there is no appropriate power and opportunity to complain for marginalized population in the centered democratic society, one kind of opportunists, politicians and local administration take the chance to deprive them of their legal rights.
These marginalized rural and poor people may get an opportunity to discuss regarding these actual rights through the programs of Community Radio. Side by side, these sort of radio plays a role of mirror in the society and accelerates pro people endeavor of…
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Added by AHM Bazlur Rahman on July 3, 2009 at 12:23pm —
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Get medical attention, sell products using SMS
1st July, 2009
MTN phone operator Uganda, Google and the Grameen Foundation have launched a mobile phone application that provides instant information to mobile phone users in remote communities. The application enables a mobile phone user to send a text message to 6001 for information on any health including HIV/AIDS tests. “For example, you can type HIV TEST and send to 6001 for information on HIV/AIDS related issues. “To find the nearest…
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Added by Francis Mwathi on July 3, 2009 at 11:29am —
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At the just concluded e-learning Africa held in Senegalese, Gambia, the The President of Senegal, Abdoulaye Wade, has outlined his vision for radical change in African education even as he criticized European governments for restricting access for African students.
In a wide ranging and controversial speech at ‘eLearning Africa,’ the continent’s major conference on online education, the 85-year old President said that technology now allowed African students unlimited access to the best universi…
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Added by Edwin Galiwango on July 3, 2009 at 2:53am —
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"Community Radio stations" seems to be emerging as a sub culture in our telecentre network. Lot of countries have encouraged and promoted 'Community Radio Stations'. In searching the web, I found a manual developed for the community radio managers, published by UNESCO office in New Delhi. I thought sharing this piece of information would be useful to all of you, specially those who are interested in launching a community radio station.
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Added by Seuwandi Yapa on July 3, 2009 at 2:08am —
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This is an excellent example of an emergent use of technology and attitude waiting for the BoP to get on board:
From Inventor Shawn Frayne
from :http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/010063.html
"The opinion I have, and the opinion of the others that I work with, is that there’s a huge untapped brain resource in developing countries. When designers or inventors have a different set of constraints, and they’re clever, there’s going to be great inventions and innovations that come out of those…
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Added by Jan Herder on July 2, 2009 at 6:30pm —
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