ICTUpdate - a current awareness bulletin for ACP Agriculture

Current issue: Special 50th issue

  • Issue no. 50
  • July 2009

  1. The many uses of mobiles

    Mobile phones can deliver information in many different ways

  2. An industry in development

    The business of mobile banking continues to grow in rural South Africa

  3. A time of technological change

    A decade of convergence and divergence in communication technology

  4. 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.


Techtip

TechTip: Computing in the cloud

There are many advantages to using applications hosted on the internet, in the ‘cloud’, rather than traditional software programs. They are available anywhere there is an i...

Editorial

Editorial: A chronicle of ICTs in agriculture

ICT Update started in 2000 as a bimonthly web bulletin featuring short summaries of web pages with news and information on ICTs for agricultural development. At that time...

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FEATURED TECHNOLOGY: Hardware

Reviving a language..

With half of the world’s languages likely to die out this century, a Canadian initiative shows how multimedia technology can regenerate interest....

New crops from old PCs..

Refurbished computers provide internet and e-learning to rural communities in Uganda. Farmers there have increased crop production and their annual income. ...

Logging the forest..

The Mbendjele Pygmies of the Republic of Congo are working together with an international logging company to help protect their forest environment. Using handhel......

Localizing languages..

A partnership to provide technology in African languages is helping to make technology more accessible to people across the continent....

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FEATURED Theme: Issue no. 60 - Rural ICT policy

A network for a new economy..

The Government of Rwanda’s document, ‘Vision 2020’, sets out plans that will transform the country’s economy from being largely dependent on agriculture to conc.....

The democracy of technology..

National ICT policies provide guidance on how a country promotes the development of the information and communications sector. Ideally, these policies ensure th.....

Input through data..

Since 2002, the SEND Foundation has been monitoring Ghana’s poverty reduction strategy, and researching whether the country’s poor have been benefitting from th.....

The benefits of better serv.....

Access to telecommunication services can greatly improve economic growth. And this is especially the case in developing countries. According to the World Bank,.....

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