A three-year programme was designed and will be presented for adoption at an official launch that will coincide with the NEPAD Youth Summit to be held in June.
[Guest Post] The Leapfrog Effect: The Pros and Cons of Legacy - 0 views
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The author of Young World Rising explains how demographics may help African countries to take software platforms and use it productively. Young people are happier to change that the ones in the "old world". He claims that legacy institution defenders are outnumbered and theis "days are numbered"
NEPAD DRAFTS YOUTH INTO ICT DEVELOPMENT AGENDA | balancingact-africa.com - 1 views
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The purpose of the NEPAD ICT Programme is to accelerate development of ICT infrastructure, and impart ICT skills.
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This 2006 Article develops a NEPAD 3-plan to develop ICT infrastructure and skills for the youth. Some portal should have come out of this...Really big goals addressed
FOSSFA in Africa: Opening the Door to State ICT Development Agendas - A Kenya Case Stud... - 0 views
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Kenya is estimated to have 1.4 million internet users with about 95% of these users located in the two major cities, Na
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F/OSS-based companies are beginning to emerge in Africa, and with them, the support and training capacity for broader F/OSS adoption. Examples include Obsidian (www.obsidian.co.za) in South Africa, Circuits & Packets Communications Ltd (www.circuitspackets.com) in Kenya and Linux Solutions in Uganda (www.linuxsolutions.co.ug)
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Donors with long histories of involvement in ICT development in Africa, such as IDRC and Association for Progressive Communication (APC), hosted several workshops for ICT stakeholders, helping to raise the visibility of F/OSS and related ICT concerns.
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Article describes what are the conditions that helped Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) to have a role in drafting ICT policy in Kenya. Include examples of FOSS companies in Africa
The emergence of African produced software « ICT4Entrepreneurship - 0 views
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The development sector works in the same way and undercuts local players by donating capital, ICT tools and expertise. Offering services for free makes it near impossible for local organizations to compete at cost
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The R&D policy must be based on the production conditions in the region, the need first to produce for the domestic/regional market (only secondarily for the export market), and Africa’s location within the global value chain.’
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Given this context, local capacity is a critical component to Africa’s story. If the continent is ever to take control of the technologies it consumes it will need the people intelligent enough to know how it works. I argue that this is where we need to focus our attention.
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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
Lançamento do Programa de Cooperação na área de Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovaçã... - 0 views
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Official 11th June event at MCT
YouTube - TEDxTokyo - Kentaro Toyama - 05/15/10 - (English) - 0 views
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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
Too Cool for School: What the Valley Is Missing in Online Education - 1 views
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Success of online-mobile education in developing countries
Google Books: Information Systems and the economics of innovation - 6 views
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For our computer scientist friends - how IT use and take-up influences innovation systems more broadly
Los nuevos amos de �frica � ELPA�S.com - 0 views
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long review on mz-china relationship
Quick guide: ICT4D in International Development Agencies: Policies, Strategies and Key ... - 0 views
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List of policies in ICT4D of different countries, mostly European, and agencies
Southern Africa Regional Poverty Network - 2 views
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News, analysis, commentary, publications and links about poverty reduction work across southern Africa. See 'country analysis' section for information on specific countries.
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