5 Reasons Why YouTube HD Videos are the Computing Benchmark for ICT4D
With the proliferation of computer hardware from desktops to laptops to myriad mobile phones, smartphones, tablets and everything in between, there is a real challenge...
How to Use “How To” Videos to Change Practitioners Behaviors
I am Ann Jimerson, a behavior change specialist for Alive & Thrive at FHI 360. While working on a U.S.-based project on obesity, I’d had a gratifying...
19 mHealth Reality Checks from 2011 mHealth Summit
At the 2011 mHealth Summit, James BonTempo and I (supported by Plan International USA and MCHIP via USAID) co-hosted the “mHealth Reality Booth,” which we hoped...
There are No Shortcuts in Technology for Development
At the TEDxIIT conference earlier this year Dr. Laura Hosman spoke about the challenges facing ICT4D and some promising methods for moving forward:
In her talk...
Video: Michael Joseph on his decade as Safaricom CEO
Moses Kemibaro made an amazing video of Safaricom’s departing CEO, Michael Joseph, who spoke for about 2 hours at iHub on his wildly successful and “peculiar”...
Top 7 Reasons Why Most ICT4D Projects Fail
Dr. Clint Rogers interviewed faculty and professionals around Africa for why they feel most information and communications for development (ICT4D) projects fail....
G4S Courier Service goes Fully Wireless with KDN
How far can you take wireless technologies in an urban environment? Kenya Data Networks, has designed a fully independent shipping center for G4S, a Kenyan courier...