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The Centre for Educational Technology (CET) supports the use of educational technology for teaching and learning and works in partnership with the university community. The Centre for Educational Technology (CET) enables and promotes and investigates the integration of learning technologies in teaching and learning at the University of Cape Town and in higher education.

After 18 years of researching novel technologies, Kentaro Toyama is ready to try something else. He believes there is a myth of scale about technologys ability to solve complex global problems that distracts us from what really matters

A not-for-profit organisation dedicated to providing reliable and authoritative information about science and technology for the developing world. Gives policymakers, researchers, the media and civil society information and a platform to explore how science and technology can reduce poverty, improve health and raise standards of living around the world.

This report supplies policy-oriented analysis of donor support for Information and Communication Technologies for Development with particular attention to recent trends in bilateral ODA commitments for information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure as well as other ICT assistance.

The Digital Doorway™ is an innovative system developed by the CSIR Meraka Institute with funding from the Department of Science and Technology, which encourages self-learning of computer and information skills by both children and adults in areas where information and communications technology infrastructure is scarce.

Science and technology networks in the following categories: - Government agencies - International bodies - Networking tools and organisations - Non-governmental organisations - Publications and information services - Research initiatives and academic groups

Kentaro Toyama, from Microsoft India, reminds us in this blog of the myths around ICT4D. He cites  Tichenor et al., 1970: "Technology is multiplicative, not additive" For a summary refer to his powerpoint: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/toyama/talks/2009%2011%2019%20Ten%20Myths%20of%20ICTD%20-%20Toyama.ppt

Blog entry where a case for increasing the human capital in Africa to develop software, open source if posible.. It also criticizes compsnies and NGOs on hindering local progress

hosted by the British Library and online bibliography company, Mendeley

List of tech related events in MZ and Africa

Series of events in Africa where local ideas and innovations are showcased

FrontlineSMS is award-winning free, open source software that turns a laptop and a mobile phone into a central communications hub. Once installed, the program enables users to send and receive text messages with groups of people through mobile phones. What you communicate is up to you, making FrontlineSMS useful in many different ways. HOW IS FRONTLINESMS DIFFERENT? * It does not require an Internet connection. * It works with your existing plan on all GSM phones, modems and networks. * Attach a phone and SIM card, and pay your local operator per SMS as usual. * It is laptop-based so it can be used on the road or during power outages. * It stores all phone numbers and records all incoming and outgoing messages. * All data lives on a local computer, not on servers controlled by someone else. * It is scalable. Messages can be sent to individuals or large groups. * It enables two-way communication, useful for fieldwork or during surveys. * It is easy to install and requires little or no training to use. * Developers can freely take the source code and add their own features. * It can be used anywhere in the world simply by switching the SIM card. HOW CAN IT BE USED? * Human rights monitoring * Disaster relief coordination * Natural resource management * Election monitoring * Emergency alerts * Mobilising task forces * Field data collection * Conducting public surveys * Health care info requests * Agricultural price updates * Organizing protests * Mobile education programs * Coordinating fundraising efforts * Providing weather updates * And more... how will YOU use it?

Focuses on social issues as elections and 2010 floods