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Basic Mobile Internet Skills Training Toolkit
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What About Facebook Messenger Chatbots for Development?
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However,...
Are Messaging Apps and Emoji-Driven M&E a Game-Changing Innovation?
Ten years ago, very few people mentioned cell phones and M&E in the same sentence. Phones were for phone calls, or for texting friends; monitoring surveys were...
5 Tools for Secure Communications and Data Storage
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Are Facebook Messenger Chatbots The Answer to Our Aid Questions?
Last week, everyone’s favorite frenemy – Facebook – held its annual developer conference in Silicon Valley. Waving our ICT4D flag in the crowd, Souktel...
Guess Which Communications Platform Youth Prefer Today?
Youth are adopting new technology faster and smarter than the general population. We know this anecdotally and witness it in our daily lives as we interact with...
A $16 Billion Dollar Future in Feature Phone App Development
If you listen to Kennedy Kachwanya, African developers should be developing for smartphones, not feature phones. In fact, just last week, I was talking with Moses...
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