How Can We Fix the Facebook Safety Check Bias?
In reaction to Friday’s tragedy in Paris, Facebook activated its Safety Check feature for the first time for a man-made disaster. While I am excited about...
How SMS Messages Revitalize the Lives of Cambodian Youth
While social media and radio are two of the most popular channels among young people in Cambodia, text messaging has remained a basic mean to send and receive short-yet-useful...
Top 4 Ways ICTs Can Help Defeat the Ebola Crisis
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is increasingly becoming an international crisis. Recently the World Health Organization counted 5,843 cases of Ebola patients...
Wow! Viber Beats Facebook in Myanmar
Often, we have the perception that a developing country’s use of technology is limited to voice and SMS text messages on basic or feature phones. When you...
Understanding Eritrea’s Exceptionally Limited Internet Access
There are generally two sides to how Eritrean ICT engagement are portrayed online:
One focuses on how, despite high Internet costs, rural communities are getting...
What Are the Best ICTs to Use in Disaster Management?
Thank you to everyone who listened in and participated in last week’s Twitter Chat! ICTworks is especially grateful to our main speakers, Glen Burnett, Lauren...
How Indonesians Are Using ICT and Social Media for Disaster Management
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Indonesia’s...
6 Guidelines for Better Development Outcomes Using Social Media
In the next few years, another 2 billion people will be coming online; transforming the Internet from what once was an elite network of the world’s privileged...
The Choice Between Facebook and Running Water Isn’t Obvious
Over the past several years two seemingly independent ideas have been gaining traction:
New technology allows developing nations to leapfrog over traditional growth...
Did You Know the Facebook Tipping Point Happened in Ghana on Sunday?
On Sunday, the Electoral Commission of Ghana changed the place of social media in African politics forever. After a very close race for the presidency of Ghana,...
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