ICTUpdate - a current awareness bulletin for ACP Agriculture

Current issue: Special 50th issue

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Issue no. 50
July 2009

The many uses of mobiles

Mobile phones can deliver information in many different ways
An industry in development

The business of mobile banking continues to grow in rural South Africa
A time of technological change

A decade of convergence and divergence in communication technology
When persistence pays off

ICT training for rural communities can be key to prosperity in Kenya

Perspectives

Interesting times in ICTs

This 50th issue of ICT Update magazine comes at a time of many interesting developments. On 23 July 2009, broadband internet access was brought East Africa thanks to the Se...

Q&A

Finding the right balance

The farming world will only have a future if it can strike the right balance between the technical decisions farmers make and the management of energy supply.

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FEATURED TECHNOLOGY: Hardware

Pan-African podcasting..

The popular newsletter, Pambazuka News is using new media to reach an even larger audience. Presenting information that can be watched or listened to will have a......

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....

No time to wait..

The availability of broadband internet has increased rapidly in developing countries in the last few years, but it is still almost exclusively limited to users i.....