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Gender-Violence 2.0: The Digital Safety Gap for Women
February 1, 2015 Editor 0
Technology not only has the power to connect people, but also the power to reinforce and disseminate social and cultural structures and help normalize gender roles. The technology revolution has brought new types of gender-based violence, including online discrimination, cyberbullying, cyberstalking, blackmail, and hate speech. In countries such as South Africa, Uganda, the Republic of […]
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Aren’t Medicine and Water More Important Than Telecommunications?
January 2, 2015 Editor Comments Off on Aren’t Medicine and Water More Important Than Telecommunications?
ICT4D is a small, but growing community working on the massive challenge of bringing Internet connectivity to the world. As such, effectively conveying the meaning and opportunity of our work to people other than the few that already understand it, be it government officials, investors, grantmakers, or even telecommunications operators, becomes a massively important task. […]
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What’s the Best IT Equipment to Use in Harsh Environments?
June 3, 2014 Editor 0
ICT4D practitioners work in all kinds of difficult weather conditions and environments. Dust, humidity, unreliable power, heat, and blowing sand can all make it tricky to keep IT equipment clean and working efficiently for users. Recently United Methodist Communications (UMCom) asked Inveneo to test, rate, and recommend IT equipment suitable for the diverse environments that […]
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What Is the Inveneo “Self-Contained Site Survey Tool”?
March 23, 2014 Editor 0
Through the course of deploying wireless links in developing countries around the world, Inveneo engineers have discovered quite a few useful tips and tricks that make installing reliable WiFi faster and easier. We like to share these tips back with the ICTD community in the hope that we can help technologists elsewhere use these same […]
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You Can Change the World of Hardware and Enter to Win a Google Nexus 7 Tablet
February 25, 2014 Editor 0
Practitioners in the developing world for years have known of the challenges that power, heat, humidity, unstable electrical systems, and even inexperienced users have brought to ICT projects. Why do these issues occur, and what could be engineered more efficiently to overcome these challenges? Photo Credit: Google Inveneo has teamed with Dr. Laura Hosman, from […]
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Which ICT4D Projects Use Progressive Design Principles?
February 5, 2014 Editor 0
USAID is gathering information on ICT4D projects or activities that have embodied progressive project design principles to show how these principals can help technology projects be more effective, save money, and expand the impact of development programs. Have you participated in or do you know of projects using progressive design principals like these? User centered […]
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