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Uganda & Kenya: In Search of e-Governance

Good governance is a slightly abstract concept that describes the process of nondiscriminatory government policies, checks and balances to political power, respect for human rights and effective civil society. This process that has become an important ...

From JOHN LIEBHARDT, Global Voices Online,  9 Nov 2009
Related Topics: World Bank,  Hillary Rodham Clinton,  Twitter Inc,  Facebook Inc.

The future of ICT4D: How soon is now?

Our previous two posts concentrated on what the future of ICTs for development could look like. This post will provide a taste of what it does look like. We’ll tackle a few lingering issues facing information and communication technology before ...

From JOHN LIEBHARDT, Global Voices Online,  3 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Flickr,  CSR P.L.C.

ICT4D: When mobile phones link with computers

In a previous post, we investigated the future of ICT4D from a pretty high level. In this post, I am going to look at some of the new tools that individuals, groups, companies and governments can use to develop new projects around information and ...

From JOHN LIEBHARDT, Global Voices Online,  20 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  Wordpress,  Twitter Inc,  ESPN

What future for ICT4D?

There's an old story of the fisherman and his cell phone. Sometimes the fisherman hails from Senegal; other times he is from India. But the story – and its lesson – remains much the same. It goes like this. Before the fisherman arrives in port with a ...

From JOHN LIEBHARDT, Global Voices Online,  12 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Flickr,  Creative Commons

ICTs and the spread of indigenous knowledge

At first glance, the relationship between indigenous knowledge and the Internet seems fraught. Indigenous knowledge provides a distinct set of beliefs, practices and representations avidly tied to place; the internet lauds itself for erasing boundaries ...

From JOHN LIEBHARDT, Global Voices Online,  5 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Google Inc.

‘Samoa will remember this day in her heart for ever'

Bloggers and citizen journalists are reacting to the massive earthquake and subsequent Tsunami that struck both Samoa and American Samoa, destroying crops, property and killing an estimated 150 people. Shortly before 7 am local time Wednesday, ...

From JOHN LIEBHARDT, Global Voices Online,  1 Oct 2009

People with disabilities and the promise of ICTs

“I MAY be 100% blind but the internet has taken away 50% of my disability,” Silatul Rahim Dahman told Cindy Tham of the Nut Graph, an independent Malaysian news site. During my recent visit to his office in Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur, he chats with ease ...

From JOHN LIEBHARDT, Global Voices Online,  29 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Wikipedia,  Skype,  World Bank,  Yahoo!,  World Health Organization

Will technophobia crash the ICT party?

The promise of ICTs benefiting human development is great. Mobile phones, some say, facilitate and expand markets where they previously weren’t. These mobiles have jumped into the domains of banking (mobile ATMs in some countries), medicine (allowing ...

From JOHN LIEBHARDT, Global Voices Online,  22 Sep 2009

Can social media help make microfinance sustainable?

Microfinance agencies provide loans to small businesspeople who often can’t meet the strict credit terms of large banks. Either these entrepreneurs don’t have the capital or the cash to back the loan. Or as the large banks argue, their credit needs are ...

From JOHN LIEBHARDT, Global Voices Online,  21 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  Harvard University,  Twitter Inc

Global: The push to boycott Shark Week

A group of scientists, scuba divers and self-described shark lovers are using the blogosphere to publicize their criticism of the Discovery Channel’s “horror-show” portrayal of sharks during its annual Shark Week. This loose coalition argues the ...

From JOHN LIEBHARDT, Global Voices Online,  21 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Discovery Channel,  Great White (musician)

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