ICTUpdate - a current awareness bulletin for ACP Agriculture

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Issue no. 51
October 2009

The mobile resource kit

The Village e-Science for Life project is working with two rural communi...
Carrying data to the field

The Farmer Info Station brings agricultural information to Kenyan farmers
Farmers’ voices on the Spoken Web

A project in India introduces rural farmers to a voice-controlled web
The freedom of information

Zimbabweans access and contribute content through an interactive voice s...

Perspectives

Making the web more mobile

When Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web in 1989, he was the first and only user. Now, just 20 years later, there are almost 1.5 billion users. That is an incredibl...

Q&A

Mobile information options

Small, portable devices, such as netbooks and smartphones, are becoming increasingly popular. Will this type of equipment be useful in rural communities?Mobile phones are b...

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FEATURED TECHNOLOGY: Hardware

Spreading the net..

At the moment, there is very little evidence of web 2.0 tools being used at the community level in developing countries. In Senegal, for example, people can list.....

Satellite solutions..

Getting precise information helps relief organizations to take quick and effective decisions. UNOSAT analyses satellite data to give disaster managers the detail......

Making stronger links..

Using the internet and mobile phones, small-scale farmers in East Africa are learning how to work efficiently with the traders who buy their goods. Linking Local......