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The service - 'Business Women' - was introduced by Nokia
West Africa, in partnership with the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women (CBFW)
and MTN. Cherie Blair, founder of CBFW, told journalists that women
entrepreneurs are faced with significant barriers to scaling up their
businesses, including access to affordable resources, marketing channels and
training inputs.
According to Blair, the new information service aims to
address this imbalance by providing essential entrepreneurship tips, delivered
via SMS to mobile phones with the Nokia Life service.
Women entrepreneurs present at the launch of the service
expressed optimism that the new information service would assist them in
overcoming some of the social and economic barriers preventing women from
reaching their economic potential.
Respondents agreed that computers and the internet allow
women to build entrepreneurial success; however, mobile phones have the most
potential because their portability and ease of use make them a particularly
friendly tool to support women's business growth.
James Rutherford, the Vice President of Nokia West Africa,
said the initiative was part of Nokia's "commitment towards connecting
people to new opportunities, including making women a larger part of the next
billion of people to be connected".
"Nokia Life is by far the world's largest mobile
information service suite helping consumers in emerging markets learn, live and
share information better", he said. "The foundation invests in women
entrepreneurs to build and expand their businesses; and in doing so, benefit
not only them but also their families and communities. We are delighted to
partner with the foundation to provide Nigerian women with the best information
available to help their businesses.
The service will be available for free, for the first six
months, to Nokia Life users who are also currently subscribed to MTN Nigeria.
Atul Bharve, a farmer from Maharashtra's Marathwada
district, says a mobile phone message saved him from crop losses this year.
When monsoon was delayed, he sent an SMS to Nokia Life Tools - a text
message-based information service-seeking advice on what to cultivate and was
promptly advised to focus on fodder.
Kapil Mehta, a farmer from Sabakantha district in northern
Gujarat, took up sorghum cultivation, which requires less water, this season in
line with a voice message advisory from Iffco Kisan Sanchar, a joint venture
between mobile carrier Bharti Airtel and fertiliser firm Iffco.
If India avoids a farming disaster of huge crop losses due
to deficient monsoon rains this year, part of its credits go to specialized
mobile-based advisory services such as Iffco Kisan Sanchar, Nokia Life Tools
and Reuters Market Light, which are helping a millions of farmers across the
country take the right decisions.
Finnish mobile handset maker Nokia says nearly 30 million
customers subscribe to its Nokia Life Tools service and a sizeable chunk of
this group are farmers.
Reuters Market Light, an initiative of news and information
firm Thomson Reuters to provide personalized agricultural information through
text messages in local languages to farmers for Rs 999 a year, boasts of one
million unique subscribers.
These service providers are now working overtime to respond
to a deluge in demand due to delayed monsoon. Experts believe mobile-based farmer
advisory providers will play an increasingly larger role in coming years.
B V Natesh, director (emerging markets services) at Nokia
Life Tools, says: "Since the Indian farmer now faces significant
monsoon-related challenges, we've been providing our subscribers with best
practices and tips on water and soil moisture conservation, alternate crop
selection in low rainfall scenarios and five-day weather forecasts". Nokia
Life provides personalized text messages on 270 commodities in 12 languages across
22 states in 12 languages and can be accessed by farmers on a daily basis.
According to the World Bank, mobile-based access to price
information has improved average farmer incomes by up to 24%, adding that the
most common usage of text messaging in the context of agriculture includes
access to price information, crop disease and meteorological information.
Futurecom is
the largest and most qualified Telecommunications event in Latin America, with
special focus in Brazil. 14 000 attendees from more than 40 countries
participate at Futurecom Brazil.
Futurecom struggles
to be an environmentally responsible event by reducing the impacts to the
environment, becoming an example to be followed in the management of
environmental impacts. We encourage exhibitors, sponsors and partners to do
their part.
It has a
20.000 sqm. exhibition area and an outstanding International Congress with more
than 250 speakers and 3500+ delegates. Most of worldwide ICT companies
participate at Futurecom, as well as all Brazilian Fixed and Mobile Carriers.
Futurecom 14th edition will be held in the city of Rio de Janeiro, from October
8th to 12th, 2012!
Link Box:
http://www.futurecom.com.br/, Facebook, Twitter
#futurecom, Linkedin and Youtube
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(Source: Innovationsky)
The capital city of South Korea
will be providing smartphones and free wireless Internet service at homeless
shelters as part of the city governments Social Networking Service, education
program for 300 homeless people who are trying to reintegrate back
into society.
Under the program, the Seoul
Metropolitan Government and its partners will be providing second hand
smartphones, donated by citizens to homeless residents, which they can use
during hosted workshops on how they can interact with society through the
social networking services. In addition, workshop attendees are also taught how
they can make better use of mobile applications available in their smart
After completing the workshops,
each homeless resident will receive a new smartphone with a KRW
20,000 credit. From then on the users will be responsible for adding credit
themselves. However, even if the credit runs out, the phone will still work
wherever free Wi-Fi is available.
According to the Seoul
Metropolitan Government, by using smartphones, homeless people can now search
for jobs and employment related information, online, anytime, anywhere.
Furthermore, they will be able to reconnect with their family and friends and
interact with the rest of society through social networking services.
Remote, mountainous, and
hard-to-reach areas like Ugandas Kabale district suffer from inadequate access
to information of all kinds. Because the region, located in the southwestern
corner of Uganda, is predominantly agricultural, timely and relevant
information for farmers in Kabale would significantly help improve their
A mobile phone application
developed by the project Life Long Learning for Farmers in Uganda (L3F
Uganda) is helping Kabale farmers get the information they need. The
project sends text messages with agricultural updates and information to about
1,000 farmers. This information, disseminated twice weekly by L3F Uganda, has
helped farmers get valuable guidance on market access, fertilizer application,
plant spacing, timely planting, local diseases, and other topics. The project
is a partnership of Commonwealth of Learning, Makerere Universitys
Agricultural Research Institute Kabanyolo, and local community organizations,
and was instituted as a pilot project in Bufundi, a sub-county of Kabale, in
2009 with the hope of extending it to all of Uganda.
The main aim of L3F Uganda is to
help solve the many challenges farmers confront in the region. These include
inadequate road networks, preventing farmers from getting to markets; a lack of
credit and financial services; volatile market prices; and a lack of up-to-date
information about seeds, weather patterns, appropriate fertilizers, pests, and
other agricultural issues. Traditionally, the governments agricultural
extension service was the main source of information for farmers in Uganda, but
the current ratio of extension workers to farmers in the country is 1:24,000,
rendering the service largely ineffective. In Bufundi, the ratio is 1:46,000.
(Source: iconnect)
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Girl Scouts of the USA CEO Anna Maria
Chávez Will Accept Diversity Advocate Award On Behalf of the Commission in
New York City September 12.
The leaders of the Healthy MEdia
Commission for Positive Images of Women and Girls expressed gratitude to the
Walter Kaitz Foundation for the Foundations decision to bestow upon the
Commission the Foundations Diversity Advocate Award.
The Healthy MEdia Commission strives to
promote representations of women in the media in the areas of healthy body
images, active and diverse female characters, equal and healthy relationships,
and increased roles of women and girls, said Academy Award-winning actor Geena
Davis, Founder of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media and a co-chair
of the Healthy MEdia Commission. Were proud to receive this award in
recognition of our goals to ensure were creating a positive media environment
for our children.
The Healthy MEdia Commission is guided
by its principal sponsors, Girl Scouts of the USA, The Creative Coalition, The
National Association of Broadcasters, and the National Cable &
Telecommunications Association. The Walter Kaitz Foundation is the cable
industrys national foundation dedicated to advocating for diversity.
Its especially gratifying that a
prestigious organization such as the Kaitz Foundation, which is dedicated to
enhancing and increasing diversity in media, would recognize the efforts of the
Commission. We thank the Foundation for that recognition, said Girl Scouts of
the USA CEO Anna Maria Chávez, who will accept the Award on September 12 on
behalf of the Commission. We and the Healthy MEdia Commissioners also look
forward later this fall to delivering a full set of recommendations on how to
encourage the proliferation of healthy images of women and girls in all forms
of media.
More details
(Source: Walter Kaitz Foundation)
In line with
Omantels vision Together, we innovate to build a totally
connected society and as part of its endeavors to offer products
and services that meet the needs of its wide range of customers, the Company
announced yesterday the launch of a new Hayyak package for people with
Disability to help them get in touch with their families and friends.
Commenting on
the new Hayyak package, Saleh bin Mahmood Al Maimani, Manager Core Services at Omantel said
At Omantel, we focus on meeting the various
needs of our valued customers. This new package is designed to meet the
special needs of disabled to help them get in touch with friends and family
through different communication means. The new package offers reduced rates of
up to 25% on mobile broadband and a flat calling rate of 29 bzs day and night.
This move comes as a part of the company commitment to provide something for everyone.
To avail of
this special package, applicants should visit their nearest Omantel retail
outlet and present their Disability ID issued by the Ministry of Social
Development. He added.
Commenting on
the service, Hamoud al Shabibi, Director of Special Care Department at the
Ministry of
Social Development said We are
delighted with Omantel initiative which reflects the attention and care given
by the Company to this important people in our society.
We are pleased
that this initiative will further enable them to communicate more with friends
and family through different means of communications be it through voice calls,
video calls, SMS, MMS or even the mobile internet.
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Young Peruvians are participating
in various radio and television spots and are active on online social networks,
disseminating and raising awareness about the benefits of consuming organic
products that are healthy, chemical free and nutritious and focusing on the
ecological impact of agricultural practices. They also invite people to buy
products at Fruits of the Earth Ecological Fairs (EcoFairs) in the areas of
Cusco, Áncash and Cajamarca. These fairs function as a point of sale where
local organic farmers can sell their products.
The young Peruvian organic
ambassadors are also present at the fairs to provide the public with even more
information about organic farming and ecologically sound agricultural
practices. They are equipped with laptops, digital cameras and recorders, as
well as printers, mobile phones and routers for wireless internet to make sure
that they collect and disseminate information wherever they go.
Maylie Carrasco is one of the
young people who participates in the project. In a Peruvian news show, she
explained about agro-ecological products and invited consumers to visit the
EcoFair Fruits of the Earth (Frutos de la
The ambassadors all come from
organic farmers families that are associated with the National Association of
Ecological Producers in Peru. The underlying goal of this initiative is to
improve the income and increase the access to the market for over 500 families
of ecological producers by informing the public on the advantages of organic
and ecologically sound agricultural products so that they buy products from the
EcoFair. This project is supported by IICD and ICCO through the Connect4Change
(Source: IICD)
ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN 2012 (OEB) focuses on fostering a
bright and inclusive future for lifelong learning in which technology enables
learners globally to improve themselves.
conference sessions they will explore the effects of the multitude of changes
in the fields of technology and education, as learners and learning experts are
asked to respond to challenges in society today. One of the major consequences
of these changes is a need to adapt educational content and practices and
capture opportunities using available tools. This need takes centre stage at ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN. Technology asks
us to innovate rapidly but how can we ensure quality, take advantage of
possibilities and implement our ideas and plans sustainably?
the theme Reaching beyond tomorrow, OEB will explore these issues and
inform you about the latest research and practices in both education and
business. It is:
form here: http://www.online-educa.com/cms7/sites/default/files/documents/downloads/registration-form.pdf
new online community that launched on 22 August aims to help schools and
districts as they move toward digital education and implement corresponding
policy changes.
U.S. Department of Education, the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation
at North Carolina State University, and the Consortium for School Networking
(CoSN) partnered to create the online community of practice.
Epic-ed aims
to empower digital transitions at all stages of development, including school
leaders who are thinking about moving to ubiquitous computing environments,
those who wish to implement ed-tech pilot projects, and those who are ready for
full-scale implementation.
will provide K-12 educators, district leaders, and other community participants
with a unique channel to get connected and develop strategies for navigating
the digital transition, said CoSN CEO Keith Krueger. With increased
peer-to-peer interaction and greater connectivity, epic-ed members will have an
opportunity to learn from each other, share ideas, and ultimately implement
effective plans to help ease the transition and maximize the benefits of
technology-enabled learning environments.
one-to-one computing has long been a goal of many districts, ed-tech leaders
find they are now faced with a one-to-many situation, because many students
today own and use more than one wireless mobile device.
your own device initiativeswhere students use their own devices on a schools
network, and the school often provides a classroom set of tools for students
who dont have their own devicealso are growing in popularity. These
initiatives cut down on tech support and take advantage of the large numbers of
students who own high-tech devices and who already are using those devices,
such as tablets, laptops, and smart phones, for educational purposes.
The Cherie Blair Foundation for Women supports women entrepreneurs, providing them with a
variety of resources and tools to overcome barriers they may encounter. In
their published report Mobile Value
Added Services: A Business Growth Opportunity for Women Entrepreneurs
in partnership with the ExxonMobil Foundation, they demonstrated that business
barriers in emerging markets can be addressed through the development of targeted
mobile phone services. They launched this research at the Council on Foreign
Relations earlier this year and are now following up on their findings,
carrying out recommendations from the report with the mobile technology sector
to deliver a service specifically tailored for women business owners in
developing and emerging markets.
This week,
in partnership with Nokia and MTN Nigeria, they are launching Business Women, a
new mobile phone service for women looking to grow their small-scale enterprise
in Nigeria. Designed with the experiences of Nigerian women entrepreneurs in
mind, the service was developed by international and Nigerian entrepreneurship
experts. It provides valuable, bite-size information on business management
such as advice on working with traders, how to improve distribution channels,
the steps required to register a business in Nigeria and how to tap into
valuable business networks. Customers who opt into this service will receive
four to five text messages with business tips per week and also have the option
of taking a weekly multiple choice quiz to test what they have learned.
They will
introduce Business Women in conjunction with a project that provides hands-on
business skills training to over 2,000 women entrepreneurs in Nigeria in
partnership with the Youth for Technology Foundation. They look forward to
charting the progress of the women entrepreneurs who use Business Women and to
following this launch with mobile services for women entrepreneurs in Indonesia
and Egypt soon.
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The DVD is called "The Wold of the Baure" and will be included in schools in a greater programme to emphasize
Bolivian indigenous cultures and preserve them. It is an interactive DVD that
will feature encyclopedia type of information, but also many video and sound
clips. The advantage of these educational DVDs over a website is that even
schools without an Internet connection can use this material. Additionally, the
DVDs can also be used by the Baure themselves to educate people about their
history and customs.
With the socialization of public policies and experiences in telehealth and
medicine in the ICT sector, the ICT Ministry participated in the Third
International Telemedicine Conference where over 150 representatives of the
health sector met to discuss technology and health.
The event, organized by the Center for Telemedicine in Colombia, with the
participation of national and international experts in the field of telemedicine,
telehealth and e-health held various academic
sessions such as workshops, lectures, courses and specialized tradeshow to
showcase advances in telemedicine industry.
"With the development of telemedicine in Colombia we are saving lives,
professionals in Health have increasingly tools to practice, making that all
people receive timely medical care and quality, regardless of where they are,
all this thanks to the opportunities offered by today's technology "said
Johanna Pimiento, Manager of the Program e-Government, who participated in the
first day of the Conference.
ICT Ministry and telehealth.
Since Act 1419 of 2010, which establishes guidelines for the development of
telehealth in Colombia and its development; which aims to support the Social
Security System in Health on principles of efficiency, universality,
solidarity, integrity , unity and quality telehealth as public policy seeks to
improve through technology, health conditions of the Colombian population,
particularly the ones who are socially and economically vulnerable, finding
themselves in places difficult to access and out of reach from the health
institutions of medium and high complexity.
Afroes creates uniquely African mobile applications and
tools for social development agencies and corporate enterprises keen to spread
educational and branded messages across the continent.
Afroes was born to celebrate Africas rich heritage and instill
messages of hope and possibility in young people. Afroes mission is to inspire
the conversations and choices of young Africans through branded digital media
and socially responsible campaigns rooted in the African content.
To ensure the widest possible reach among young people,
including those at the bottom-of-the-pyramid, Afroes is leveraging the rapid
growth of mobile in Africa, which represents an unprecedented opportunity to
deliver branded and educational messages directly and repeatedly into the hands
and pockets of potential customers and citizens across the continent and
The World Bank Board of Directors
approved last June the extension of the Rural Telecommunications
Project with an additional credit of US$5 million, in order to expand
access to telecommunications services among more than 200,000 rural
inhabitants in the Caribbean coast and Rio San Juan Department in
The Rural Telecommunications Project,
implemented since 2007 through an initial financing of US$7 million,
has already installed new broadband Internet access points in 101
municipalities, expanded mobile phone coverage to 37 rural
communities, and installed almost 600 public phones in rural areas.
These US$5 million in additional
financing will support Government efforts to reduce the cost of
telecommunications services and expand opportunities for the
inhabitants of the North Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAN) and South
Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAS), Alto Wanki Territory and Rio San
Juan Department in Nicaraguas southeast. In these areas, poverty
levels reach almost 55 percent and poverty is especially prevalent in
indigenous and Afro-descendants living in small communities, away
from national communication networks.
With the extension of this
project, we will be able to increase regional access to
telecommunications services by at least 40 percent, something that
will have a positive effect on the local economy, said Orlando
Castillo, Executive President of the Nicaraguan Telecommunications
and Posts Institute (TELCOR).
The Project will continue to expand the
telecenter network to facilitate access to low cost mobile phone and
Internet services in rural communities in the Caribbean coast and Rio
San Juan, along with municipal governments, NGOs and the local
private sector.
(Source: The World Bank)Further details
The Ministry of Education is offering
college faculty training programs to develop their digital education
capability, as well as, to improve the quality of digital education
and the ability of promoting and managing e-learning courses of
colleges in Taiwan. The training plan was undertaken by The
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National
Chung Cheng University. It is from October 3th 2011 and goes to
November 4th 2012.
The series of training programs
includes: Improvement of Digital Education, Capability of College
Teachers, Teacher Assistants, Administration Assistants, and
Development of Digital Materials and Management of E-learning
Courses. Seminars are held to offer hands-on experiences.
Anyone who works for public and private
colleges, including military and police schools, is welcome to attend
the training programs.
(Source: Ministry of Education
Republic of China (Taiwan)Further details
Tigo announced the launch of a pilot
project, known as Tigo Kilimo, which aims to provide farmers
with relevant and timely agricultural information from their mobile
Farmers can access this service via
their mobile phones by simply dialing *148*14#, bringing them to the
Tigo Kilimo menu. The menu screen will display a list of general
information on daily weather forecast, comprehensive details on soil
management, pest control methods on more than 20 common vegetable,
fruit and grain crops, and information on livestock care and
life-cycle, the press realize said.
Tigo Kilimo is an SMS-based
application which presents small-scale farmers in Tanzania with an
unprecedented opportunity to run their operations more productively.
Through this platform, it said, farmers get real-time information on
weather forecast and agricultural tips. Further, it enables them to
increase their yield and help close the productivity gap with other
parts of the world.
Using mobile phone based
agricultural solutions will create linkages and help farmers improve
their farming practices, said Yaya Ndjore, project manager for
Tigo Kilimo service at Tigo Tanzania. The impact of
poor transport and communications infrastructures, mean that farmers
in developing countries struggle to get access to vital agricultural
information, as well as training and advice on topics such as pests
and diseases, weather and proven farming practices. Through this
service, Tigo will offer new, cost-effective and scalable solutions
to address these challenges, he said.
In the second phase of the project,
Tigo will add more services, such as information on market price, as
well as to set up an interactive helpline for farmers to call in for
advice, the statement said.
(Source: IPP Media)
The Food, Agriculture and Natural
Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN),
in collaboration with the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural
Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA) commissioned 6 Country
Case Studies (Malawi, Mauritius, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania
and Zimbabwe) in November 2011 on current and emerging youth policies
and initiatives with a special focus on links to Agriculture. The
announcement of these case studies was made during the Regional
Dialogue in September 2011,
where the theme of the conference was "Advocating for the active
engagement of the youth in the Agricultural Value-chain".
This year, the FANRPAN Annual High
Level Regional Food Security Policy Dialogue will be held from 3-7
September 2012 in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania with the theme "From Policy to Practice: Advocating for the
Active Engagement of Youth in Agriculture Value Chains", whereby
the 6 Country Case Studies conducted by youth representatives from
each of these countries will be synthesized into a Regional Report,
that will give a bird's eye view of the current situation, identify
gaps and better target interventions. The final report will be
presented at the Regional Dialogue in September 2012.
Prior to the FANRPAN 2012 Regional
Dialogue, a Twitter campaign will be run by each of the 6 young
consultants who conducted the Country Case Studies from 1st to 31st
August 2012 to engage youths and others who are interested in the
case-studies in discussions on Twitter.
In order to participate in the Twitter
campaign, you need to know the following:
The Twitter campaign will run for 4
weeks and each week, the focus will be on a specific topic, and hence
will have a specific Hashtag (#) described below:
Week 1 (1-7 Aug) - Topic: Youth
Perceptions on Agriculture - #youthagperc
Week 2 (8-14 Aug) - Topic: National
Policies as Key Drivers - #youthagpol
Week 3 (15-21 Aug) - Topic:
Institutions and Mechanisms for Youth Engagement - #youthageng
Week 4 (22-31 Aug) - Topic:
Opportunities for Youth in Agriculture - #youthagopp
(Source: YPARD)Further details
To enhance and attain the health
component of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Abia State
Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Broadbased
Communications Limited to provide fibre optic network across the
The chief marketing officer of
Broadbased Communications, Mr. Chidi Ibisi, said that the fibre optic
network would put Abia on the telecommunications super highway and
revolutionalise the healthcare delivery system in the state.
Farmers in the rural areas would
have access to new methods of farming as extension officers can talk
to farmers in the rural areas at the same time through video
conferencing, he said, adding that the state governor can also use
the network to make a broadcast.
The chief marketing officer explained
that the benefits of Abias journey into the information
superhighway would be felt everywhere across the state because
hospitals, schools, government ministries, departments and agencies,
banks would all be connected to the network.
It is a super highway that can carry
everybody, a next generation broadband network that can carry a lot
of data, he said, noting that telecommunications companies
operating in Abia could log into the fibre optic network for
efficient services.
Special adviser to the governor on
NEPAD, Hon Longman Emeka Nwachukwu, who facilitated the fibre optic
networking agreement with Broadbased Communications, told that Abia
was well poised to utilize the full benefits of ICT to drive its
(Source: This Day News Paper)Further details
ECDL Foundation Partners with AGE
Platform Europe to Promote the Older Peoples Digital Inclusion
during the European Year for Active Ageing and Solidarity between
Generations and Launches Updated ICT Training Program Adapted to
Older Peoples Needs.
As key stakeholders in the European
Year for Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations (EY2012)
Coalition, ECDL Foundation and AGE Platform Europe will collaborate
to connect the capacity of both organisations extensive networks
in support of the Years aims around ICT skills development. The
development of older Europeans ICT skills is considered crucial to
their active ageing and continued participation in society, and to
their ongoing contribution to the labor market. At any age, and
particularly with an ageing population in Europe, European citizens
need to be able to use the technology that can greatly improve their
quality of life. ECDL Foundation is a committed supporter of EY2012
and will work towards using the potential of ICT to open up training
and employment opportunities for older people, including those with
In support of the objectives of the
EY2012 and its collaboration with AGE Platform Europe, ECDL
Foundation is launching a revised version of its accessible
introductory ICT training programme, EqualSkills. This new version of
the highly successful EqualSkills workbook seeks to meet the specific
needs of older people. EqualSkills is a tutor-led, introductory ICT
skills development programme that helps to remove the fear of
computers for complete novices by using a simple, non-threatening
approach to providing basic skills for using a computer, email, and
the Internet. These essential ICT skills are key to individuals
full participation in technology-dependent societies, and are an
important factor in promoting lifelong learning. So far, almost
100,000 Europeans have already participated in the EqualSkills
ECDL Foundation, as a leading advocate
for the promotion of digital literacy in Europe, fully supports the
aims of the European Commissions European Year for Active Ageing
and Solidarity between Generations 2012. ECDL Foundation and its
network of national partners look forward to collaborating with AGE
Platform Europe in the joint aim of enabling the digital inclusion of
the elderly in Europe throughout 2012 and beyond.
(Source: Age Platform Europe)
This year's conference, which was held
in Cotonou, Benin, from 23rd 25th May, saw the launch of The
eLearning Africa 2012 Report. The Report is based on a detailed
survey of nearly five hundred education professionals across the
Continent, and marks the first significant attempt to provide a
snapshot of how ICT and better connectivity are believed to be
changing the face of education in Africa.
These are some of the key findings of
The eLearning Africa 2012 Survey, completed by 447 respondents. The
eLearning Africa 2012 Report, which is the first of its kind,
bringing together the views of eLearning professionals and a range of
other stakeholders from across 41 African countries.
What role does the ICT-enhanced
learning and training community play in contributing towards Africa's
growth and development? This is the overarching question that frames
The eLearning Africa 2012 Report. How do people define ICT-enhanced
learning and training? What technologies are being used within the
sector? In what contexts are they being used? What motivates people
to use ICT and how do they make use of it? Each of these questions is
explored through the Survey analysis.
The eLearning Africa Report aims to
provide regular, yearly snapshots of the eLearning experience in
Africa, with the aim of fostering richer, more nuanced conversations,
healthier decision-making and more effective action-taking towards
ensuring Education for All in Africa.
To download a free copy of the 2012
Report, please click here.
(Source: eLearning Africa)
The Deputy Minister for
ICT, María Carolina Hoyos Turbay, delivered three mobile classrooms
with 30 portables, on Thursday 9 August in the city of Valledupar.
These equipments will benefit over 520 students of the National
School Loperena, in Vicente Roig and Villalba
"It is proven that
students, whom learn with technology, improve their performance and
quality of education. Also, in classrooms where ICT is present, the
dropout rates are reduced", said Hoyos Turbay.
The Ministry of
Information and Communications Technologies, through Computers for
Schools, will deliver this year more than 4,300 computer equipment in
the department of Cesar, an amount that is added to the 12,500
computers that will be delivered at the end of 2014.
Additionally, more than
3,300 teachers across the department will be trained in proper use of
ICT (a diploma), so that not only meets the purpose of access to
technology, but also the proper use of the tools. "A team alone
does not make a difference in an educational campus, but is used in
different areas, like in the class of geography, English, Science or
Spanish", said the Executive Director for Computers for Schools
(Computadores para Educar), Martha Cunningham.
To date, over 215,000
children have benefited from computers in the department of Cesar. In
the capital city of Valledupar, the Program has delivered up to date
2,448 computers and laptops to 123 schools, which have benefited
64,495 students, especially the most vulnerable segments of the
According to official
statistics, Computers for Schools has benefited about 6.5 million
children countrywide and even though it is present in all Colombian
municipalities, including the most remote, there are still over 7,000
schools left for covering.
"Our goal is that
by 2014 we will get all the official Schools", said ICT Deputy
Minister, María Carolina Hoyos, who recalled that recently they
acquired over 320,000 laptops of last generation to meet the needs
nationwide by 2014, through an electronic auction.
(Source: MINTIC
Colombia)Further details
In September 2009, Typhoon Ketsana
(Ondoy) hit the Philippines, causing the worst flooding in more than
40 years in Metro Manila.Damages were estimated to be at
$1.09 billion and about 747 fatalities were recorded.
Now, three years later, the torrential
rains that has been pounding Metro Manila and its nearby provinces
since yesterday is now dubbed as Ondoy 2, as the capital city
now finds itself again submerged in chest-deep flood waters and many
citizens stranded on the 2nd floor or the roof of their houses.
With the crisis far from over, a group
of twitter users proactively created a Googledoc spread sheet to help
first responders facilitate evacuation efforts.
The Googledoc #rescuePH allows
users to report people who are in need of immediate evacuation or
The document includes the following
information: Timestamp (which indicates the time when the entry was
made), address of persons who need to be evacuated, status of the
rescue alert, contact information and the exact twitter message. In
addition, the spreadsheet also contains emergency hotlines of the
National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council.
New entries are marked red, and users
who input information are requested to update the status column to
green when people are rescued. Up to date there are 250 entries.
This initiative stems from the concept
of turning crowd sourced data into actionable information. Through
this initiative, first responders would be able to streamline their
efforts in order to help victims get needed aid as soon as possible.
(Source: FutureGov)
Peru has agreed with India to create a
working group to define priority areas for applying innovation in
information technologies to promote equity and social inclusion in
the Peruvian territory.
The mission of technicians and experts
from India in the matter will visit Peru in September, reported the
Peruvian Foreign Ministry after his trip to New Delhi, India, on 13
July. The agreement was reached by both nations during the V Meeting
of the Bilateral Political Consultation Mechanism between the Foreign
Ministries of both countries held in India.
The foreign
viceminister, José Beraún, and the Foreign
Secretary of India, Madhusudan Ganapathi, chaired the meeting which
resulted in the identification of specific projects for joint
cooperation in science and technological innovation for social
inclusion. Both diplomats signed the Memorandum of Understanding on
Cooperation in the Field of Geology and Natural Resources and another
one for the Establishment of a Centre of Excellence for Information
Technology (CETI).
CETI will be implemented in
INICTEL-UNI, considering the valuable experience that this
institution has in the field of information and communication
technology, as well as the work done to bring ICT to the people of
lower incomes and to the people inside the country, referred Dr. K. J
Srinivasa, charged on affaires issues of the Embassy of India, who
visited Peru in 2010.
Notably, the CETI will implement 2
classrooms of 25 students each, the software required for the CETI
and 3 coaches for a period of two years, as well as the donation of
equipment (servers, personal computers, projectors, printers and
scanners) by the Government of India.
(Source: INICTEL-Peru)Further details
The Ministry of Education announced the
creation of postgraduate in Education and New Technologies to train
teachers in the use of Information and Communication Technology
(ICT), which will be delivered from the second half of the year. The
initiative aims to help teachers in the use of netbooks delivered by
Connect Equality Plan (conectar Igualdad - ICP).
The Federal Government has developed
several measures to guarantee the right of quality education for all.
One policy that contributes significantly to achieve this goal is the
universal access to information and communication technologies (ICT),
which finds in the Program Connect Equal the democratizing mechanism
from which students and teachers of the Argentine public schools can
get their own netbook, as well as teachers and students in teacher
training schools.
In this way, arises the need to install
a specific public policy of teacher professional development from the
State, accompanying the process of democratization of access to
technologies involving the Model 1 to 1. The Specialization Teaching
of Higher level in Education and ICT, published in the Official
Gazette by Resolution No. 856/2012, assumes the educational
responsibility of providing a space for training and discussion with
academic rigor in order to enrich the institutional practices from
the inclusion and use of ICT in the daily work of teachers.
It starts from the premise that it is
essential to balance the scope and limitations of ICT, in order to
enforce their potential as tools for development of pedagogical
approaches, without overstating the impact of technological variables
on the teaching and learning.
(Source: educ.ar)Further details
Shea nut collecting women in
southwestern Burkina Faso received a computer system in mid-June to
help them manage, record, retrieve, and track information about the
sale of Shea nuts. This will increase efficiency and eventually will
help them to sell more Shea nuts.
'Before, we used a paper-based
recording system and it caused many problems at the section levels',
said Clementine Hien, the treasurer of Fadefso, the Federation of
Women's Development and Emancipation Associations in Southwestern
Burkina Faso. The Federation has over 20,000 members, of whom more
than 10,000 engage in seasonal Shea nut collection.'The
sections are unable to know exactly how many members involved in Shea
nut collection', added Mrs Hien, concluding that this shortcoming
affect provisions for the next season.With the support of
IICD and ICCO, who teamed up with other partners to form the Connect
for Change Consortium, Fadefso kicked off the piloting phase by
installing its computer and accessories in its headquarters in Dano,
about 340 km southwest of the capital Ouagadougou.'With this
computer, we will digitalize the list of all our members', said
Olivier Some the Fadefso-Dano support agent. He added that the
delay-causing handling of paper-based correspondence with clients and
partners was to be replaced by emails. Shea (a nut that
is used to create Shea Butter) collection is the most important
income-generating activity for women in Southwestern Burkina Faso.
Putting Information and Communication Technologies at the disposal of
those hardworking women for managerial, information recording and
tracking tasks is a way to increase their efficiency and their
(Source: IIDC)Further details
Thailands Electronic Government
Agency (EGA) will introduce the Smart Box, an integrated device
that provides connectivity and delivers government services through
smart card authentication for remote communities.
The Smart Box will enable remote
villagers especially farmers to access real-time agricultural
information. The streaming data will be customized to suit interest
and benefit of people in particular provinces, areas, and types of
cultivation. The information includes weather forecast, and market
price for rice, rubber, tapioca and etc.
The EGA is preparing to launch the
pilot project of Smart Box in Nakhon Nayok - a chosen province to be
the first Smart Province of ICT Ministry.
Apart from providing necessary
agricultural information, the Smart Box will be able to read Smart ID
Card and provide personal data and social welfare benefits attached
to each citizen.
The Smart Box has a similar shape to
cable TV box, featuring pre-set Intranet connected to the Government
Information Network (GIN), and wi-fi reception. Initially, it will be
installed in the community ICT centres, houses of village chiefs or
sub-district heads where there is fine connection of internet.
The units of Smart Box will be ready
for distribution in the next 3-4 months. The price per unit is
between THB 3,000 - 4,000 (US$ 95-126) depending on the specification
that the EGA will finalize.
In order to allow
access to integrated telecommunications services in the central rural
areas of the country, the municipality of Simon Bolivar, from the
department of Pasco, and Movistar launched the mobile services, fixed
and wireless public telephony in the district of Simon Bolivar.This
initiative is part of the project Intégrame from Movistar
which will benefit from today to more than 2,600 inhabitants of the
towns: Pacoyan, Quiulacocha, Sacrafamilia, San Antonio de Ranas and
San Pedro de Racco, which can access to telecommunications
already.Intégrame is a project of public-private partnership
that was created in 2006 by Movistar to provide the services to rural
areas that did not have access to telecommunications or which had
very limited services. From that time, Intégrame is serving more
than 100,000 people from 301 locations throughout Peru.
develops infrastructure projects that enable communities to access
the integrated telecommunications services, reducing the digital gap
in poorest areas of the country, promoting their economic and social
growth, and connecting them with the rest of the country and the
(Source: Telefonica)Further details
Technological innovation is taking
place at a breath-taking pace. Simple, open source internet-based
applications and services designed to enhance on-line collaboration
are now available to the wider public at little or no cost at all.
These new online technologies known as Web 2.0 and social media
enable people to collaborate to create, share and publish
The Technical Centre for Agricultural
and Rural Cooperation EU-ACP (CTA) has a mandate to facilitate access
to and dissemination of information in the fields of agriculture and
rural development in 78 countries in Africa, the Caribbean and the
Pacific (ACP). Supporting the adoption of Web 2.0 applications
represents a great opportunity for meeting it.
The Busoga Rural Open Source and
Development Initiative (BROSDI), in collaboration with CTA will host
a 5-day Web 2.0 Learning Opportunity on September 24 - 28, 2012.
Participants will be introduced to selected web 2.0 applications and
will learn how to use them hands-on. The Learning Opportunity will
cover advanced online searching, getting information served via
alerts and RSS, collaborating remotely using wikis and Google Docs,
using VoIP, online mapping and social media. Participants will get a
chance to see what others have done, get hands-on experience on how
to use innovative applications, and assess how they could adopt these
innovations within the context of their work and organization. This
Learning Opportunity forms part of CTA initiatives that support
development partners in networking, accessing and disseminating
information more effectively.
How to apply: If you are interested in
applying, please complete this online form.
Deadline for application: 22 August,
(Source: Web2 for Dev)
The study by Rajender Verma assesses
the impact of IT services and e-governance projects in the
development of the rural society. It covers the services concerned
with their regular routine such as agriculture, education, health,
social relation, product marketing, administration, planning and
current information needs. Agriculture is the main income source on
Rural Himachal. So, the study identifies IT as an effective tool for
increasing agricultural output stressing government to start
e-Business Scheme like e-Choupal Scheme (Internet-based interventions
in rural Farmers introduced by ITC).
Report along many regional e-governance
tools covers SUGAM or Integrated Community Service Centers (i-CoSC)
and Agriculture Resource Information Systems and Networking
(AGRISNET) particularly concerned with rural agriculture. SUGAM
provides all important services including agriculture commodity
prices at the doorstep of rural community by bringing all citizen
related services and information under a single roof cutting across
different tiers of administration. While, AGRISNET Project brings
farmers, researchers, scientists and administrators together by
establishing online information for agriculture, animal husbandry,
horticulture and fisheries departments. The citizens can put their
queries online along with the scanned photographs (if any) on the web
and get the advice from the experts of concerned departments. It
longs to create a sustainable data bank of all agricultural Inputs in
the State of Himachal Pradesh containing entries for all relevant
information pertaining to agriculture and related activities.
(Source: e-agriculture)Full report
The Ministry of Information and
Communication Technology through the program Computers for Schools
(Computadores para educar), began an ambitious and innovative
strategy for integrating the stages of computer delivery with the
training of 28,000 teachers in schools in the countrywide.
To achieve the purpose of the national
government, there will be a professional team of 2,300 ICT managers,
who are linked with universities and schools that won the public
tender, which has as objective the supply of computers in every
education center and training to teachers in ICT skills, in order to
improve classroom practices.
Managers are professionals in the areas
of education and technology, with experience in developing social
projects. The challenge of this group will be to motivate and
transfer the knowledge to teachers so that they can take technologies
as tools that enhance the learning of children. The process at each
school will begin in mid-August.
To advance this work, since Monday 23
July until 3 August, Computers for Schools program will be leading
institutions and universities, selected in different regions of the
country, in working sessions that will qualify their knowledge to
develop work with teachers.
"The coverage of this strategy
covers all over the country, reaching more than 28,000 official
educational centers, located in 1,123 municipalities", said ICT
Minister Diego Molano Vega, noting that this strategy will be
implemented in the next three years , during which 400,000 terminals
will be delivered, benefiting mainly the sectors of the population
with the highest degree of vulnerability.
(Source: MINTIC Colombia)Further details
With over 6 billion
mobile subscriptions in use worldwide, up from fewer than 1 billion
in 2000, three out of every four human beings worldwide now have
access to a mobile phone, says a flagship report on global mobile
trends released today by infoDev and the
World Bank.
According to
Information and Communications for
Development 2012: Maximizing Mobile, more than 30 billion mobile
applications, or apps, were downloaded in 2011 software
that extends the capabilities of phones, for instance to become
mobile wallets, navigational aids, or price comparison tools. In
developing countries, citizens are increasingly using mobile phones
to create new livelihoods and enhance their lifestyles, while
governments are using them to improve service delivery and citizen
feedback mechanisms.
This new report, the third in the World
Banks series on Information and Communications for Development
(IC4D), explores the consequences for development of the emerging
app economy, especially in evolving approaches to
entrepreneurship and employment. It also examines the vast
transformative impact of mobile technology in sectors such as
agriculture, health, financial services, and government.
Countries around the world are taking
advantage of this potential, for example:
In India, the
state of Keralas mGovernment program has deployed over 20
applications and facilitated more than 3 million interactions
between the government and citizens since its launch in December
Kenya has
emerged as a leading player in mobile for development, largely due
to the success of the M-PESA mobile payment ecosystem.
Nairobi-based AkiraChix, for example, provides networking and
training for women technologists.
In Palestine,
Souktels JobMatch service is helping young people find jobs.
College graduates using the service reported a reduction in the time
spent looking for employment from an average of twelve weeks to one
week or less, and an increase in wages of up to 50 percent.
The report benefits from research
funded by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Government of
Finland, the Korea Trust Fund for ICT4D, and UKaid. It features
at-a-glance tables for more than 150 economies showing the latest
available data and indicators for the mobile sector. It also
introduces an analytical tool for examining the relevant performance
indicators for each countrys mobile sector, so that policy-makers
can assess their capacities relative to other countries.
Download the IC4D 2012 infographic here(Source: infoDev)
The key to a
successful use of eHealth is that it should lead to a lasting and
substantial improvement of performance. Experience teaches that a
participatory design approach is required when using Information and
Communication Technology (ICT) and when designing health solutions.
This creates a momentum for change. However, health facilities are
often complex organizations and we learned that to create continuous
and lasting change, explicit attention is required to the on-going
process of organizational change. The momentum for change should be
transformed in a pathway. IICD and its partners in Tanzania developed
a practical and integrated approach that scaffolds health management
information systems, telemedicine and e-learning in one integrated
approach called the eHealth package, which has relevance worldwide.
The eHealth package is applied in the
Lake Zone in Tanzania. It is embedded in a district approach to
ensure a more conducive institutional and financial setting.
Organizational and institutional issues proved to be key obstacles in
applying ICT in health. Therefore the district approach is closely
related to the national eHealth strategy. The strength of the eHealth
package compared to other eHealth solutions is the integration of all
aspects; technical, medical, financial, learning, behavioural change
etc. in a flexible road map of best practices for eHealth
implementation at a health facility.
(Source: IICD)See the Full Report
University (CU) has launched an electronic bookstore on iOS and
expected to release up to 1000 items in stock by the end of the year.
The eBook Store not
only provides e-books to students and readers but will also be a
gateway of writers and professors knowledge for readers in terms
of digital media and multimedia, Assoc Dr Danuja Kunpanitchakit, a
vice president of CU said.
The CUs e-Bookstore
application will be based on iOS to empower students in accessing
knowledge and curricula via mobile devices such as tablets, according
to her.
The CU is the oldest
university in Thailand, located in the heart of Bangkok. It plans to
transform itself into a digital university within four years.
Establishing the CU-eBook Store, the first of its kind, is a part of
the initial transition to provide e-books and e-curricula to students
and mobile users, she added.
According to Kriengsak
Hongsawek, a computer manager of the CU Book Centre, the e-Book Store
currently offers about 500 items for download, of which 200 are free.
The rest can be purchased at a saving of 20-30 per cent.
The university also aimed to partner
with leading publishing houses to offer up to 1,000 items by
The app for Android
users will be ready in a couple weeks. The Quick Response (QR) code
technology is being deployed to make e-learning experience more
convenient and easily accessible, he inserted.
An injection of a
handful of notebooks and tablets, two smart boards and eight laptops should
meet the challenge teachers face in working with children with special needs.
The possibilities are innumerable. It is not only that simple education games
will engage the children and help them to learn better. Rather, a smartboard
would also serve the purpose of painting with ones own hands and make the
children realize that they will be able to make things happen when they touch
the smartboard screen or go from icon to icon.
The goal of the project
is to help 125 children of the Rokana Basic School in Kitwe to learn more
effectively by using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) such as
smartboards and tablets. The programme also includes the training of 40
teachers in how to use ICT with special needs children as well as the training
of approximately 200 teachers in the use of smart boards.
Rokana Basic School
in Kitwe stands out in Zambia. It is one of a handful of schools with a Special
Needs Unit for children with learning disabilities. Its principal, Mr Mwansa,
has a long-cherished dream: to furnish one room in the Special Needs Unit with
equipment that would open up a whole new (virtual) world for these children. At
the end of 2011, Rokana Basic School teamed up with around 20 other local
schools in the area through the Mpelembe Basic Schools partnership. Through
this partnership, teachers from Mpelembe Secondary school, showed teachers from
several local basic schools how they can use ICT to liven up their lessons. For
example, through videos, interactive computer games, and Power Point
presentations. Joining the partnership has also brought Mr Mwansa one step
closer to realizing his dream.
(Source: AKVO)
According to a study by the
Research Center for Womens Action (CIPAF), about 80 per cent of teachers in
the Dominican Republic believe that boys excel in mathematics while girls do better
in languages. But the facts speak to a different reality: We compared these
results with real data and found out that it was not true: girls have had
better grades in math, says Magaly Pineda, Executive Director of CIPAF.
stereotypes, promoting interest in mathematics among girls, and eventually
reducing the gender digital divide in the Dominican Republic is the objective
of the project Gender and ICTs: Equality and Equity in E-Dominican, organized
by the CIPAF and supported by the UN Womens Fund for Gender Equality.
represent 61 per cent of the university population in the Dominican Republic,
and yet, barely 11 per cent of these students are studying for careers in
science and technology. The figures on household trends also show a gap in the
opportunities that men and women have to access digital technology: only 38 per
cent of households headed by women have access to Information and Communication
Technologies (ICTs).
digital divide remains difficult to close. While more women are entering
universities, women are generally still absent from key areas of the economy. The
ICT sector is the fastest growing in the country, but women represent only 33
per cent of the labor market and most of them in support tasks, says Magaly
address this reality, math clubs such as E-girls and Super math have been
created under the umbrella of the Gender and ICTs project. The aim is to
promote science subjects amongst girls in public schools. The initiative
includes mentoring and career guidance campaigns to speed up the entry of more
women into the Technological Institute of the Americas (ITLA) and in technology
initiative Gender and ICTs is part of the Plan for Equal Opportunities for
Women in the Information Society, created by the National Commission for
Information Society and Knowledge. This Plan is the first of its kind and will
integrate a gender perspective into the broader Dominican National Strategy for
the Information Society (E-Dominican), and will contribute to reducing the gap
between men and women in access to information and communication technologies.
(Source: UNWomen)
Like most of the farmers in developing countries, farmers in
India also lack proper access to market information. Realizing this information
gap, a free SMS-based product called Fasal that connects rural farmers with
buyers and provides them with real-time price information in India is developed
by Intuit.
It facilitates the
relationship between sellers and buyers, whether through finding marketplaces
or determining market rates. The service uses complex matching algorithms to
ensure that the multiple service messages reach the farmer every day, providing
him with data so that he can make informed decisions. Itis rapidly becoming
popular among farmers in the Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh states with the
outreach count reaching to 9,24,838 and 8,000 new members joining the fasal
community every week.
Access the Fasal website here: fasal.intuit.com/index.html
Both institutions seek to create synergies
to develop solutions engineering, product design and methodology, using ICT as
a tool to connect to most Peruvians, especially in rural areas.
The agreement also aims to strengthen the initiatives
being developed by the Rural Telecommunications Group of Catholic University (PUCP)
through which it has deployed wireless networks in various parts of Cusco,
Cajamarca and Loreto and currently provides access to the Internet via the WiFi
network allowing for example to have the service of Telemedicine in border
Telefonica and the Rural
Telecommunications Group of Catholic University of Peru (PUCP) signed on Friday
13 July a cooperation agreement through which the agencies are seeking to join
forces with the aim of developing solutions based on Information and
Communication Technologies (ICTs) that allow telecommunications to be brought
to rural America.
Through this agreement, both institutions
seek to create synergies to develop engineering solutions, products, design and
methodology, using ICT as a tool to connect to most Peruvians, with special
attention to the needs of rural areas that have a lack of telecommunications services
and / or with limited access.
Both institutions are committed to develop
outreach activities and academic specialization programmes, courses, seminars,
forums and conferences to enhance participants' skills and improve their
experiences in ICT.
is a worldwide peer-to-peer knowledge sharing network being piloted by the Cafédirect
Producers Foundation (CPF) with very exciting results so far.
content is created by the users; sharing their knowledge and innovative ideas
from farmer to farmer across continents and languages, and enabling people with
no access to the internet to harness its power, through even the most basic
mobile phone, to improve their lives.
internet platform will support smallholder farming communities to:
their farming practices and livelihoods by accessing relevant information from
other smallholders.
practices and products developed within their community, and strengthen links
with potential partners.
learn and benefit from experiences and innovative solutions.
networks and use for this technology that cannot be envisaged yet. In the
process the project will gain a life of its own and become self sufficient.
years after this simple idea was born, WeFarm has grown into a pioneering test
system, which has now been successfully piloted with farmers in Kenya and Peru.
WeFarm wants to be the first port of call for any farmer, anywhere, who has a
problem to solve or a solution to share.
For further information see:
Agricultural workers in Ethiopia such as farmers and
researchers came together in Addis Ababa to discuss a farmers market
information system (FMIS). This system will include a text message information
service for farmers in Ethiopias Oromia province.
Purpose of the workshops was to identify the needs of
several actors in the agriculture field such as farmers, farmers unions,
agricultural experts and traders and suppliers of cultivation products. The
meeting also allowed the agriculture workers to classify their requirements on
the features of the farmers market information system and. The system will be
built by Ethiopian mobile technology company Apposit LLC with the support of
Connect4Change consortium members IICD, Texttochange and ICCO and Dutch ICT
company 1Zero.
The Farmers Market Information System will function as a
database with a mobile component, giving its users all the information they
seek, in different user interfaces, adjusted to their needs.
Field visits in local farmers market organizations,
indicated that more than 50% of the farmers in the Oromia Region make use of
mobile phones and value this use in their daily life. Through the FMIS, the
farmers will be able to receive information on market prices for their
products, the weather forecast, or availability of fertilisers with a simple
text message. In addition to this, they will be provided with solar mobile
chargers to facilitate them, as at the moment, every time they need to charge
their phones, they are forced to visit the nearest village on a market day and
pay an amount of money to have it charged.
Farmers market organizations and unions will use the Farmers
Market Information System to aggregate data from individual farmers about what
and how many products they grow. With these data, they will be able to analyze
and monitor the production of agricultural goods in their area.
The Farmers Information System will also be used by traders
and suppliers of cultivation products to retrieve information on which products
are being cultivated and provide the farmers with the necessary market
information or products such as fertilizers suitable to their crop.
In the first phase, the Farmers Market Information System
will be used by 16500 farmers in the Oromia Region, with the possibility to
upscale it to other provinces. The system will be developed by the Ethiopian
mobile technology company Apposit LLC with the support of IICD and fellow
Connect4change members, ICCO and Texttochange,
as well as with the support of 1Zero.
Kaen University (KKU), Thailand recently became the
first university in Thailand and in Southeast Asia to roll out the Google App
for Education to facilitate learning, with the collaboration of teachers and
university staff. 200
buildings throughout 8.96 million square meters of the KKU
area are now connected with wireless internet of 60 access points, allowing
students to do online learning and information searching anywhere and anytime,
said KKU President Associate Prof Dr
Kittichai Triratanasirichai.
mission is to be an international university and be a hub in the northeast for
students from overseas. The university has been focusing on IT
investment as a vital tool to support education for several years,
he added. With
2,000 subjects are available in the KKU Learning
Management System (LMS), students can access to these
electronic learning materials via the internet connection, both wired
and wireless.
KKU wants to be an
international university and ICT is an important tool
to assist us achieve the goal. Studying at KKU, student
learning will be facilitated by the ICT infrastructure
along with the ICT knowledge that is a must and
required skill for graduation students, said Dr Tiratanasirichai. KKU is located 449 kilometres northeast
of Bangkok, with 12,000 staff and hospitals which includes 2,000 teachers and
10,000 staff, and 43,000 students.
will be encouraged to use Google Apps in the next three months. Now, around
10,000 users are using Google Apps, said KKUs vice
president of academic and IT, assistant Prof
Denpong Soodphakdee.
added that KUUs e-learning system is enabled by the
Mooddle system, a free Web-based learning managment system that allows
educators to create effective online learning sites. Google Apps will be
integrated into the universitys LMS. Apart
from e-learning benefit, the students is able to arrange their learning plan
such as planning their study time talbe, checking the subjects, and dates of
examinations throughout the semester.
KKU cannot only save time, but it can
also save the cost of service deployment to the staff. The cost of IT investment is low but there is more efficiency in
performing routine tasks and teaching services. In the future, KKU can provide partial distant-learning for graduation
students, said Soodphakdee.
More than 5,000 residents of the
community of Chalhuanca in Aymara in the province of Apurimac, will benefit
from access to Broadband Internet for free, under the Digital Chalhuanca project,
promoted by the regional government and the mining Suyamarca, member of
Hochschild Mining Group.
The provincial municipality of
Aymara, the regional government of Apurimac and mining company opened in the
previous day (Wednesday) Chalhuanca Digital, which will benefit communities of
Suyamarca influence of the mining and surrounding communities as Cotaruse,
Pampamarca, Iscahuaca, Promesa and Colca, also Pallancata, Santa Rosa and
Hochschild Mining's president,
Ignacio Bustamante, said that the project will require an investment of one
million dollars, from what they have invested US$ 670,000 and 80 percent of the
cost is borne by Minera Suyamarca and the rest will be assumed by local and
regional authorities.
"It's a historic moment for
Apurimac it is the first digital community in the country and this experience
we will replicate in major districts of the region as Abancay, Andahuaylas and
Cotabambas" he said.
He explained that the project has
two stages and its implementation will take four years, the first step is the
implementation of basic infrastructure to meet the needs of technology and
communication technology which is required by the digital city.
In the second stage they will
prioritize the needs of training in the use of information and communication technology
(ICT) in education, employment and productive.
Meanwhile, the president of the
Apurimac region, Elijah Segovia said that this project starts Apurimac digital
inclusion in the framework of social inclusion promoted by the government,
adding that help improve the educational level of the region, which is one of
the main objectives of its management.
(Source: Andina)
Experts at eLearning
Africa 2011 suggested that eLearning could bridge the alarming skills
gap that exists between nurses trained in different disciplines. Some
pointed to successful partnerships with NGOs in East Africa. Others
discussed scale and replicability in African medical training.
The question of
content and related issues including information access and
development was a key theme of the session What contribution can
eLearning make towards confronting the skills challenge
of Africas health sector?
Mohamed Labib discussed HSO.info, a
well-resourced website with expert free health sciences information.
The vision is to make this relevant and available to all health
workers. The importance of partnerships was noted here, both
south-south and north-south. The example provided was the University
Teaching Hospital in Zambia, partnering with the Royal College of
Surgeons in Ireland.
The session included two presentations
from the Tanzanian Training Centre for International Health (TTCIH).
Angelo Nyamtema pointed out the severe shortage of healthcare workers
in Tanzania and discussed the progress being made in developing an
eLearning training programme, including their approach to pedagogical
design and course structuring.
Diana Mukami discussed the African
Medical and Research Foundations successful nurse upgrading
programme via eLearning. Since its inception nearly six years ago,
the programme a classic public-private partnership has
enrolled 7000 nurses across 108 eCentres in Kenya and graduated over
2000 nurses. It comprises General Nursing, Reproductive Health,
Community Health and Specialised Areas.
(Source: eLearning
Africa)Further details
The VTT Technical
Research Centre of Finland has just published a research on ICT and
poverty in Africa entitled Pro-poor social and economic
opportunities in the African ICT innovation ecosystem. This
research analyses how new income opportunities are created from the
mobile revolution, what their impact is on the contribution of
ICT to development, and it also develops forward-looking perspectives
to enhance how ICT can be accompanied by inclusive innovation
practices that effectively address rural and urban poverty in
developing countries.
The research project included extensive
field research in Iringa, Tanzania, which was chosen as the case
study locale, as it typifies, in many respects, the rural social,
cultural, economic and geographic landscape in Tanzania and
Sub-Saharan Africa.
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The Bolivian Educational Organization
EDUCATIC has been voted the organization with the most social impact
at the National Innovation Talents awards 2012. EDUCATIC is supported
by IICD and Edukans in the Connect4Change consortium.
EDUCATIC was praised
for the impact their innovative projects have on the quality of
education and the promotion of equal opportunities for young
Bolivians. The National Innovation Talents awards 2012 (TIC Bolivia
2012) were presented in June in Cochabamba, Bolivia. 20 teams from 5
different areas of the country participated in the third edition of
the competition, claiming awards for Best Economic Impact, Best
Environmental Impact and Best Social Impact.
Catalyst for the
decision of the jury was the work of EDUCATIC
in promoting the proper use of technological resources, the
generation of innovative teaching content with the use of ICT locally
to improve student achievement, the encouragement of teachers to
develop their own digital educational content, according to the needs
of students, as well as the promotion of Bolivian culture.
EDUCATICs CEO, Keiko
Ignacio, has a long experience with the implementation of Information
and Communication Technologies in Education and collaborates closely
with IICD since 2001. She is happy to receive the recognition for her
organizations years of hard work: Together
with a team of young people with the same convictions of service to
development, we undertook a variety of projects that promote local
and national growth for the benefit of Bolivian children.
IICD collaborates with
EDUCATIC and Edukans in the Connect4Change consortium project ICT
for education in Bolivia. In this project, teachers and students
will be targeted in 80 schools throughout Bolivia to enhance
education with the use of Information and Communication Technology
such as computers.
(Source: IICD)Further details
The ICT in Everyday Learning
Teacher Online Toolkit project is funded by the Australian Government
under the Digital Strategy for Teachers and School Leaders and
is a component of the Digital Education Revolution program. The
project is led by Education Services Australia.
The project aims to change classroom
practice by increasing teachers' capacity to incorporate technologies
into teaching and learning as they implement the Australian
Curriculum. It will assist teachers to access online professional
learning with local support to analyse, plan and implement changes to
their teaching approaches and to access quality online resources.
The Victorian Information Technology
Teachers Association, the Australian Association of Mathematics
Teachers, the History Teachers' Association of Australia, Deakin
University and Macquarie University are working with Education
Services Australia to develop and deliver the professional learning
The project resources will include
examples of how teachers can incorporate technologies into the
teaching of English, history, science and mathematics and examples of
cross-curriculum perspectives and general capabilities. The resources
will also include advice and strategies for using digital content,
mobile devices, collaboration tools, game-based technologies and
communication tools.
The professional learning resources
will be trialled in a range of schools. The resources will be
accessible to all teachers on completion of the project in 2012.
(Source: ESA Australia)Further details
Dream-wings is a free online learning portal run by Gyeonggi
Womens Development Center GWDC. It offers
e-learning services and over 300 courses in office work, healthcare,
social welfare, IT, foreign languages and hobbies.
Stay-at-home mothers
wishing to get a job and working mothers looking for better career
opportunities never have enough time for self-development. They find
a favorable option with Dream-wings which can be accessed anywhere
and anytime, says Dr Cho Jung-ah, head of GWDC.
Dream wings-supports
womens career development, including finding a job or starting a
new business. It started off in 2004 as a local website built for
women living in Gyeonggi Province. Based on the research conducted by
Samsung SDS, GWDC created a master plan offering e-learning services
to women who have experienced an extensive period of career breaks. A
year later, GWDC opened the online Gyeonggi Women Career Development
Center, Koreas first-ever free e-learning service for women. It
began to offer nation-wide services in 2011. This year, GWDC
introduced a mobile version of the portal Smart Dream-wings.
Focused primarily on IT
education, Dream-wings has expanded the scope of its services into
total career development support by adding diagnostic services (e.g.
competency diagnosis and employability diagnosis) and support for job
placement and business start-up. The initiative is fully funded by
the government.
(Source: FutureGov)Further details
The GSMA launched the Mobile and
Development Intelligence (MDI) project in conjunction with Omidyar
Network the philanthropic investment firm established by eBay founder
(Pierre Omidyar). Through an open access portal, MDI will offer data
and analysis to support business decision-making and clarify the
evidence of the socio-economic impact of the mobile industry in the
developing world. MDI will provide any user with over 70 metrics and
the ability to tabulate, graph, map and export the datasets with
country-level dashboards available for more than 140 developing world
countries. MDI will continually add new datasets throughout the
project and users can add data and content to the portal.
"The GSMA believes that open
access to high-quality data will improve business decision-making,
increase total investment from both the commercial mobile industry
and the development sector, and amplify economic, environmental and
social impact," said Chris Locke, Managing Director, GSMA
Development Fund. "The GSMA is uniquely positioned to aggregate
and host data and analysis on behalf of our mobile operator members
and the wider industry. This open data portal will provide for the
first time a complete landscape of the organizations and mobile
services that are influencing and changing lives in developing
populations throughout the world".
A challenge facing mobile industry
stakeholders in the developing world is the lack of publically
available data and analysis to support their business decision
making. MDI will fill this information gap and will aggregate and
host publically available data from multiple sources such as the
GSMA, the United Nations, the World Bank, the wider mobile industry
and development organizations.
MDI hosts a landscape of more than 800
organization profiles; in addition, over 750 products and services
have been summarized, with an initial focus on mobile money and
mobile health. Users can see these organizations, products and
services on a global map and search for particular types of
organizations. This will allow stakeholders to identify each other,
understand each other's offerings and objectives, and form
collaborations and partnerships.
There are an estimated 6.6 billion
mobile connections globally, with the developing world providing the
majority of global connections growth. The industry is moving beyond
basic voice to the use of mobile to deliver services in adjacent
sectors such as agriculture, education, financial services and
health. As the most widely adopted technology in history, mobile is
uniquely positioned to drive economic, environmental and social
benefit. MDI will help increase this momentum by providing a robust,
data-rich, user-friendly and freely available portal that offers a
new level of global visibility.
(Source: PR Newswire)Further details
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|Version: 0.18
|Vendor: openSUSE
|Release: 7.1
|Build date: Sat Feb 19 08:22:17 2011
|Group: System/GUI/GNOME
|Build host: build11
|Size: 118667
|Source RPM: nautilus-open-terminal-0.18-7.1.src.rpm
|Packager: http://bugs.opensuse.org
|Url: http://manny.cluecoder.org/packages/nautilus-open-terminal/
|Summary: Nautilus Extension to Open Terminal in Folders
This is a nautilus extension that allows you to open a terminal in arbitrary folders.
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CSUDH offers Certificate Awards for students who complete three graduate level courses from the MSQA program and the appropriate capstone course. The student may take these courses through "open university" thus need not be enrolled in the MSQA program. Each student who satisfactorily completes a non-credit capstone course and the associated three graduate level credit courses from the MSQA program will be provided with a Certificate Award.
The non-credit capstone course in each certificate (with the exception of the Service Quality Certificate) are also designed to aid the Quality Practitioner pass the ASQ professional certification examination. This certification is a recognized professional accomplishment bound to enhance your career and personal marketability. These courses are offered in cooperation with the Los Angeles Section 0700 of the American Society for Quality (ASQ).
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Winston-Salem, N.C. - Alisiya Klochkova improved on her first round 88, carding a second round score of 85 in leading the Brevard College women's golf team on Sunday morning. The sophomore placed fourth in the event, earning a podium finish.
Hampton University's Iman Ellis won the two-day event at the Winston Lake Golf Course, finishing with a two-round total of 161, 17 over par for the event and teammates Dione West and Kayla Williams rounded out the top three.
Brevard's Macy Kottyan finished the event, improving on her first round total by five strokes to finish in seventh, while Erika Kellems made the biggest strides in the tournament, recording a 20 stroke improvement on her way to an eighth place result.
The Tornados are back on the golf course on Monday, March 22nd, as the Tornados take on Montreat at the Glen Cannon Country Club in Etowah, N.C.
Player Team Total Par
4. Alisiya Klochkova Brevard College 88 85 173 +29
7. Macy Kottyan Brevard College 110 105 215 +71
8. Erika Kellems Brevard College 135 115 250 +106


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Beyond all the miraculous systems in the body, the heart by itself is one of the finest examples of flawless creation. No similar artificial mechanism that "can keep someone alive" has thus far been built, despite all the recent scientific advances. With the cells that comprise it, its special valve systems and the manner in which the opening and closing of these valves is regulated, the heart is an organ with exceptionally complex and special systems. No other organ can do anything like the work it performs.
· What happens in the event of an impairment in the functioning of this organ?
· How can the heart repair itself following a heart attack?
· What role does the thymosin beta-4 (TB4) molecule play in the heart's self-repair?
Although it is only 22 days since its creation, a small collection of cells on the left side of the fetus begins to move. This collection of cells will never stop now, not for a very long time. It will never tire. It will beat approximately 70 times per minute, some 35 million times per year, and around two trillion times over the course of an average life span. It will pump some 227 million liters of blood over the course of a lifetime. It will tirelessly feed all the organs of the body through the network of blood vessels . The heart functions perfectly in every body because Allah so chooses, and everything it does is under our Lord's control at every moment. Allah exhibits His artistry of detail in the human body and reveals this in a verse:
"Allah brought you out of your mothers' wombs knowing nothing at all, and gave you hearing, sight and hearts so that perhaps you would show thanks." (Surat an-Nahl, 78)
This organ, the foundation of life, also uses blood to nourish itself. However, in order to remind people of their weakness, our Lord may sometimes cause the vessels that feed the heart to narrow, using such natural causes as cholesterol (blood fats), other fats, calcium and combinations of other substances. This then leads to impaired circulation in the blood vessels (coronary arteries) that supply the heart, finally resulting in a heart defect. When the narrowing of the vessels turns into complete blockage over the course of time, the result is severe chest pain and a heart attack. This generally proves fatal, though some victims do survive. But their hearts still suffer damage from the attack.
Recent studies have once again shown Almighty Allah's love for and mercy on His servants. Because a protein that the heart produces during the developmental stage in children enables the damaged heart to be repaired and increases the vessels supplying it.
The Healing Power of the Heart: Thymosin Beta-4
During a heart attack, heart cells die when the flow of blood to the heart is suddenly cut off, resulting in irreparable damage. This damage persists in the form of a decreased quality of life in the patient's later life.
Until recently it used to be thought that, unlike other organs, the heart had no ability to repair itself. Today, however, we know that this damage can be put right by the body. The protein thymosin beta-4 (TB4), which plays a key role in the development of the heart in children, activates stem cells that are lie dormant in the adult heart. These tiny proteins, known as thymosin, which comes in two forms in living tissue, α 1 and β 4, possess the ability to reprogram cells in the body. The protein is today administered in the form of a drug, and sends the stem cells a code regarding the repair of the heart. The heart thus heals itself without the need for other treatment. Administered in pharmaceutical form, this protein improves heart performance by up to 25% by causing stem cells to turn into heart and artery cells. It repairs the damaged heart cells, increases the arteries supplying the heart and permits the muscles to repair themselves.
Allah, the Creator of All, Is Most Great
Events in our body that we are unaware of, and whose existence we have usually never even heard of, take place inside us with the greatest regularity. Our heartbeat, essential for our survival, is not something we initiate or maintain of our own will. Our heart is one of the organs miraculously created by our Lord. This organ begins beating as a collection of cells when a person is still in his mother's womb, and continues to flawlessly discharge its duties until the end of that person's life.
Research in recent years has revealed that in the event of a defect arising in this immaculately functioning organ, various proteins go into action to repair it. However, proteins themselves possess no such medical knowledge with which to identify defects developing in the heart, and lack the consciousness to save a person's life by taking such precautions. Yet they are present in everyone's body and ready to serve the same function. A protein with such superior properties is neither the product of human intelligence nor of any supposed evolutionary process. It was created by Allah, He who bestows order, glory and perfection on all He creates. Allah is He Who meets the needs of all created things (Kafi), He Who enfolds them (Muhit) and Who is mighty enough to do all that He wishes, in the manner He wishes (Kadir). He is the only One to be thanked and praised (Hamid). He is the One who creates without previous models (Bedi). This is revealed in the following verse:
"the Originator of the heavens and earth. When He decides on something, He just says to it, 'Be!' and it is." (Surat al-Baqara, 117)
The heart is made up of special muscles that never tire. If your heart muscles were to tire in doing things that cause you fatigue, then you could never do such routine day-to-day activities as cleaning, sport, climbing up stairs and the like. You would be exhausted before you even began. But apart from exceptional diseases, this never happens. Because Allah manifests His infinite mercy on His servants by bestowing tirelessness on the muscles of the heart. There is no doubt that this is one of the matchless works of our Lord, who knows all things down to the finest detail and Who manifests His omniscience in every detail. The omniscience of Allah is revealed in the following verse:
"... My Lord encompasses all things in His knowledge so will you not pay heed?" (Surat al-An'am, 80)
There is a highly systematic mechanism in the heart. That mechanism is essential for human life. Otherwise, a single flaw arising in the system could spell the end of the life of the person concerned. The most important of the heart's mechanisms is the pumps on its right and left. There are also auricles and ventricles on both sides of the heart. The small pumps on either side are the auricles, while the ventricles constitute the large pumps. The left side of the heart is occupied with clean blood. It is the task of the left auricle and ventricle to ensure that incoming blood reaches the organs and tissues. The right side of the heart is occupied with used (dirty) blood. The right auricle and ventricle send the blood to the lungs for cleaning.
The Heart Is An Immaculate Organ Created By Almighty Allah


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BEND, OR -- New from American Licorice Co. are Fruit Vines Bites, a soft chewy confection that takes its place alongside Red Vines, Sour Punch and Super Ropes in the candy company's lineup. It's positioned to expand the options available to the many fans of the Red Vines brand.
Available in 2-oz. single-serve packages, 5-oz. hanging bags and 10-oz. resealable standup bags, Fruit Vines come in cherry and strawberry flavors. They are described as low in fat and preservative-free.
"We wanted to develop a candy that appealed to the candy enthusiast and knew that soft, chewy, fruity candies would be the answer," said Red Vines brand manager Stephanie Louie.
Established a century ago in Illinois, American Licorice Co. was among the first confectioners to manufacture licorice confections in the United States. Its main website, with company information and history, may be found at americanlicorice.com. A website specific to the new product has gone live at fruitvines.com.