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3 Uncommon Ways ICT Can Aid Delivery of High Impact Agricultural Research and Development
September 29, 2017 Editor 0
Delivery of scalable agricultural intervention and development can be enhanced using contemporary ICT tools. Such ICT-driven revolution is imperative to meet the nutrition needs of growing global population, which is projected to reach 9 Billion by year 2050. For instance, the first three sustainable development goals (SDGs) have strong implication for smallholder farmers who mostly […]
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How Mobile Applications are Documenting Property Rights in Zambia
September 29, 2017 Editor 0
There is a silent race running through developing countries around the world – a race for access to land and the knowledge of whom the land belongs. The race is not necessarily between people, or neighboring farmers, or even between government and their citizens, but exists at the nexus of productive livelihoods, and the sustainable […]
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Which African Governments Spy on Technology Users the Most?
September 29, 2017 Editor 0
Governments can legally spy on their residents in many ways, most of them hidden from our purview. However, telecommunications companies, now often a target of government spying, are releasing transparency reports to announce how often governments ask for user information, and how many users the government wants to spy on. Google launched the first transparency […]
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Balancing Technology and Human Touch in Agriculture Extension Services
September 29, 2017 Editor 0
For farmers who do not trust or simply do not understand information technology, successful organizations must balance new technology and human interaction in agricultural extension services, as I learned at ICTforAg’s “Seeding & Scaling Digital Extension Services” session. The Power of Video Alex Dunlop, Director of Business Development at Digital Green, said human interaction is […]
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Be a Data Visualization Expert with TechChange’s Online Diploma Program
September 22, 2017 Editor 0
Are you looking for ideas and support around a new project? Do you want new skills to do your current job better? Or are you trying to break into the ICT4D job market? Then register now for the TechChange Tech for Monitoring and Evaluation Online Diploma Program. This 16-week online program starts August 28th and is […]
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9 Best Practices for Cleaning, Managing, and Tagging Your Data
August 30, 2017 Editor 0
With “Data Scientist” being hailed as the sexiest job of the 21st century, there has been an influx of “big data” companies, visualization tools, and other products. But unless the input data is cleaned and managed, all these products are fairly useless. As the saying goes: Garbage in, garbage out! This blog post is about […]
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