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Issue no. 35
December 2006

Escaping the rising sea

Researchers in American Samoa are employing GIS, satellite imagery and t...
Hurricanes and Hams

Jamaican amateur radio operators serve their communities as extreme weat...
Dakoro calling

As global warming exacerbates food insecurity in Africa, satellites are...
Need to know

Communities need information on climate change, yet the subject is hardl...

Perspectives

Climate, ICTs, the FAO…

Holistic approaches No less interlinked are the various aspects of the ways in which climate change affects agriculture. This, naturally, necessitates an integrated appr...

Q&A

Q&A: Africa’s monitoring stations feeling a little ‘under the weather’

Is there a problem with Africa’s weather monitoring system? The current networks of weather stations in Africa - and their spatial coverage - are insufficient for monitor...

EXPLORE ICT update

FEATURED TECHNOLOGY: Hardware

Window to the world..

The war in northern Uganda has driven thousands of people from their homes to live in camps. Now, after a lot of trial an error, BOSCO Uganda has brought the int......

An evolving vision..

Development Gateway has changed significantly in response to external challenges and the emergence of new web-based technologies. Their experience highlights imp......

Web 2.0 for low bandwidth..

What’s the difference between web 2.0 and the web as we previously knew it? Fundamentally, the technology underlying both is the same, web 2.0 just has a few e.....

Making the marketplace mobile..

With internet and SMS TradeNet allows rural farmers to advertise their merchandise to an international market and find the fairest price for their crops....

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