Competition and Collaboration

This picture was obtained from a hyperlink posted on Twitter by Ken Banks at Kiwanja.net and I think exemplifies the heart of how development is best carried out. Putting aside differences in multistakeholder partnerships, easier said than done admittedly, and painful as the process may be for parties involved, is best for the individuals and [...]

Connecting the dots between Information Technology and Sustainable Development…

My presentation at the Sustainable Living Festival focussed on the interplay between Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and Sustainable development, particularly Sustainable Agriculture and Renewable Energy, drew on personal experience and research. In the text that follows, the terms Sustainable Development, Sustainable Agriculture, and Renewable Energy have been shortened to SD, SA, and RE respectively. [...]

Life Lenses…

Clearly, interests evolve with time, some seemingly more important than others depending on the lens through which they are viewed, as we live our lives and accumulate life experience. A brief list of some of the things I am currently enjoying learning more about or gradually building skill in include,
Juggling : Doing this with clubs [...]

Note to Self on Microfinance, Social networking, and Migrant Diaspora …

Reviewing the Planet Finance website, I have an idea that maybe I should make the approach to someone within the organisation, once in France, about possible ways to operationalise a project that would develop online tools that could assist better service delivery of its microfinance portfolio, vis a vis an off-the-shelf or customised social networking [...]

A Mesh Wireless Networking project for Broadmeadows estate

 
Broadmeadows has some of the lowest social economic indexes in Melbourne – some of the most disdvataged communities in Melbourne reside here. Within these pockets of disadvantage, you have the public housing estate which are even lower down the ladder. Information on Broadmeadows Neighbourhood Renewal can be accessed here . There is also a Wikipedia [...]

Completion of the e-Education Centre…

The focus of this particular partnership is on the development of improved educational resources for the staff and children of the Uluru children’s Home (UCH), as well as expanding the diversity of resources for the local community. EWB Australia, the organisation for which I manage their Information for Development projects, has been responsible for [...]

Blogging from Making Links 2006 for EWB National…

You can read my article in EWB Australia’s February 2007 Newsletter.
Readers will be provided context to Making Links 2006 and to EWB Australia’s involvement with it.

New download available

You can read my latest ICT4D Report relating to universal access as it pertains to rural India. The reports is an overview of the feasibility of universal access provision as it relates to the regulatory, technological, and social contextual factors that drive deployment.

The ICT4D Support Network (ISN) Virtual Wiki and Forum at EWB Australia

The ISN will strive to provide an overview of ICT4D taking into account mainly the best practices of ICT4D projects and the challenges involved in implementation and those stage pre and post.
In any case, this website will only serve as an introductory window into the wide, wide vista that is ICT4D. As a starting points [...]

Real Access / Real Impact Report

‘Bridges.org’ has made available a comprehensive resource for implementing a successful ICT4FD Project. Read more here…

Connectivity For Refugees (CFR)

Connectivity For Refugees, CFR, began as a collaborative community development effort between the University of Melbourne Chapter of Engineers Without Borders Australia, and the Adult Multicultural Educational Services (AMES)in the early part of 2005.
Melbourne’s refugee community come from a wide variety of backgrounds and cultures and typically feel a sense of isolation in alien surroundings [...]

EWB’s page goes live at ADG

View the page here…

E-LITERACY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GOES NATIONAL AT EWB…

If you are looking for news on EWB’s ICT-based projects or ideas for beginning a Local Initiative Project (LIP) of your own, you’ve come to the right virtual space.
Accurately described as an Information and Communication for Development project, Engineers Without Borders ‘Computer in Homes’, ‘PC’s for Refugees’ or ‘Connectivity For Refugees’ projects as it [...]

Read about an innovation mesh wireless solution here…
The
Dharamsala IT Project

Excellent
starting off point for all ICT4D and Telecentre rsch

About PLA
using Technology

Africa Cookbook

Download CAInfobook_EN.pdf

Presentation from Richard Fuchs of the IDRC

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