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Kathleen Noreisch

Old war, new peace and what it takes to send a text in Liberia - The Ushahidi Blog - 2 views

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    "The conditions that need to be present to text in Liberia do not necessarily exist simply because someone has access to a phone; if there is one major assumption that many of us in ICT for development are guilty of, it's this one." - an interesting piece which could be used to critically examine the adoption of mobile phone technology in sub-Saharan Africa and its role in civil society. Just having access is not always enough...
Matt Podbury

ICT Access for Africa: Intel, UN and ITU Efforts to Globalize Broadband | Connected Soc... - 2 views

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    Bringing Broadband Internet Provision to LEDC's
Kathleen Noreisch

1Mb Broadband Access Becomes Legal Right | News | YLE Uutiset | yle.fi - 1 views

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    Starting next July, every person in Finland will have the right to a one-megabit broadband connection, says the Ministry of Transport and Communications. Finland is the world's first country to create laws guaranteeing broadband access.
Richard Allaway

Internet: Last piece of fibre-optic jigsaw falls into place as cable links east Africa ... - 1 views

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    Leap in capacity will allow cheap internet access and knowledge at speed of light
Kathleen Noreisch

AudienceScapes - 1 views

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    This website has some great data on various developing countries' rates of adoption of ICT (in particular, mobile phones, internet, radio and television) - click on "country profiles" to see which countries are available. While there is slightly less data available for Haiti, Tanzania, Zambia and Mozambique, the dedicated mini-sites for each of the other countries include data on access to various forms of "traditional media" (newspapers, radio) and "new media" (internet and mobile phones). There is also data on usage of the various forms of media by age group, gender and socio-economic status. I particularly like the annotations on the graphs, which will hopefully help students focus on the key data and show them how annotations can help add clarity and further information to figures (graphs, maps etc).
Richard Allaway

East Africa gets broadband: It may make life easier and cheaper | The Economist - 2 views

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    THE Horn of Africa is one of the last populated bits of the planet without a proper connection to the world wide web. Instead of fibre-optic cable, which provides for cheap phone calls and YouTube-friendly surfing, its 200m or so people have had to rely on satellite links. This has kept international phone calls horribly overpriced and internet access equally extortionate and maddeningly slow.
Jessica Burger

Internet access for Africa - 1 views

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    TED lecture on internet innovation in Africa
Richard Allaway

A special report on telecoms in emerging markets: : Finishing the job | The Economist - 2 views

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    Mobile-phone access will soon be universal. The next task is to do the same for the internet
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