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Open Standards Can Change Everything
March 20, 2013 Editor 0
February’s San Francisco Technology Salon centered around current technology challenges in the developing world. What are our current needs? What’s holding technology back? What should we be looking for in a “perfect” solution? The discussion was lively and the participants were wonderfully engaged, with topics ranging from hardware lifespan to power usage. Depending on your industry there […]
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Innovation Spaces: People and Community Matter More Than Tech or Type
February 10, 2013 Editor 0
Technology hubs, innovation spaces, hacker centers, incubators, telecenters, libraries, co-working offices, etc, there are many names to call the places where like-minded people come together to focus on a challenge. We do this because we believe in them as a model for facilitating collaboration, yet at the January Technology Salon in DC, we asked Do […]
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What are the Top 10 Technology Challenges in International Development?
February 10, 2013 Editor 0
Mobile device technology is changing the social and economic landscape across the developing world. Mobile phones are powering revolutions in banking, in education, in healthcare, in the very way we relate to each other. Tablets and laptops will unleash their own disruptions as they propagate beyond the city center, following the mobile phone into everyone’s […]
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Innovation Spaces: People and Community Matter More Than Tech or Type
January 20, 2013 Editor 0
Technology hubs, innovation spaces, hacker centers, incubators, telecenters, libraries, co-working offices, etc, there are many names to call the places where like-minded people come together to focus on a challenge. We do this because we believe in them as a model for facilitating collaboration, yet at the January Technology Salon in DC, we asked Do […]
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Silicon Valley Technology Salon: How Can Every African Woman Have Access to Broadband?
October 4, 2012 Editor 0
We all know that broadband connectivity is an accelerant for social and economic development. And we know that in the developing world, women are the key investors in family health and education. So shouldn’t we be working towards a world where every African woman can have access to broadband Internet?
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How Can We Strengthen Local Capacity for ICTs in M&E?
August 28, 2012 Editor 0
New technologies are changing the nature of monitoring and evaluation, as seen in our previous Salon on the use of ICTs in M&E. However, the use of new technologies in M&E efforts can seem daunting or irrelevant to those working in low resource settings, especially if there is little experience or low existing capacity with […]
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