‘Young people cannot take up the role of intermediary free of charge, nor should they be expected to,’ Sylvestre Ouédraogo, president of the Yam Pukri Association in Burkina Faso.
ICTUpdate - a current awareness bulletin for ACP Agriculture
Current issue: Youth and ICTs
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- Issue no. 65
- April 2012
Q&A
A source of inspiration
Young farmers are able to master ICT skills and tools, to analyse and adjust farming practices to cope with prevailing climatic conditions, and increase profits.
Bookmarks
Blogs for an online presence
Blogs can provide youth groups, agricultural cooperative and farming business with an easy and free online presence.
Tech Talk
Encouraging ICT uptake
Sharing ideas with others, even on a small or personal level, can encourage them to make effective use of ICTs.
EXPLORE ICT update
FEATURED TECHNOLOGY: Hardware
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......
Clean up campaign..
Tackling e-waste. Steps are already being taken in Trinidad and Tobago to make sure discarded computers don’t end up in landfill sites and become and environment......
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......
Satellite solutions..
Getting precise information helps relief organizations to take quick and effective decisions. UNOSAT analyses satellite data to give disaster managers the detail......
BROWSE TECHNOLOGY
all technologies...FEATURED Theme: Issue no. 66 - A future for telecentres
Diversify to survive..
Public–private partnerships revive Botswana’s telecentre programme...
A service to the community..
A Kenyan resource centre uses ICTs to gather and share agricultural information...
Support at the centre..
Information centres in Ghana overcome challenges to serve rural communities...
A model of sustainability..
A new approach to telecentres in South Africa focuses on collaboration and partnerships...