ICTUpdate - a current awareness bulletin for ACP Agriculture
Current issue: Mobile services
- Issue no. 51
- October 2009
Perspectives
Making the web more mobile
Q&A
Mobile information options
Techtip
TechTip: Adapt a site for the mobile web
Editorial
Editorial: Information in small packages
EXPLORE ICT update
FEATURED TECHNOLOGY: Hardware
The community call box..
A pilot project to introduce payphones, connected to satellite networks, is providing telephone services to remote communities and helping to develop the telecoms......
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......
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......
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.....
BROWSE TECHNOLOGY
all technologies...FEATURED Theme: Issue no. 60 - Rural ICT policy
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.....
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,.....
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.....
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.....