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in title, tags, annotations or urlFacebook Stories - Interactive: Mapping the World's Friendships - 3 views
Cell Phone Penetration in Tanzania - 1 views
Here comes the sun: Kenya farmers texted weather forecasts - video | Global development | guardian.co.uk - 1 views
Should Africa beware tech companies bearing gifts? | David Smith | Global development | guardian.co.uk - 1 views
Avaaz: can online campaigning reinvent politics? | World news | The Guardian - 5 views
Mobile services in poor countries: Not just talk | The Economist - 2 views
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Examine the changes in a transport, internet ortelecommunications network in terms of the extension oflinks and nodes and the intensity of use at a national orglobal scale.Describe the role of information and communicationstechnology (ICT) in civil society and the transmission andflow of images, ideas, information and finance.
solar powered school .... - 0 views
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...
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).