Computer Aid International is a UK registered charity that aims to reduce poverty through practical ICT solutions. It provides only the highest quality, professionally refurbished computers and laptops for reuse in education, health, agriculture and not-for-profit organisations in developing countries.
In addition to the provision of PCs, Computer Aid works on numerous initiatives designed to further increase access to ICT among poor and disadvantaged communities including the provision of e-training programmes for nurses and low cost software for partially sighted individuals. Most recently, Computer Aid has launched the ZubaBox, a solar powered IT hub, which will enable access to solar powered ICT anywhere in the world.
The website of Afrique Verte International provides, on a monthly basis, market conditions and price trends for grain crops to sahelian farmers in Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali. The information comes in PDF format and be downloaded from the website. Maps and graphs are used to communicate the conditions and trends. The aim is to enhance food security by facilitating the consumption of locally produced food.
The Barbados Agricultural Society (BAS) is an agricultural organisation, which is over 150 years old. It was established in 1845 by an Act of Parliament in Barbados and seeks to represent the interests of the agricultural sector in all relevant forums.
The Society is the secretariat for seven commodity groups representing over 700 farmers with women comprising 37% of the total.
"PestNet is an email network that helps people throughout the world obtain rapid advice and information on plant protection, including quarantine. PestNet welcomes growers, researches, extensionists."
"Google has announced that they rolled out their popular Google Maps service for 40 new countries, of which six are on the African soil.The latest African countries to enjoy all the mapping benefits of Google Maps are Somalia, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Lesotho, Mali and Niger. Google Maps allows users to view local roads, businesses and surroundings in great detail, and can also be used as a navigational tool."
The Mobile Media Toolkit is a project of obileActive.org, a global network of people using mobile technology for social impact. The secure section of the Mobile Media Toolkit also features another project from MobileActive.org called SaferMobile, which helps activists, human rights defenders, and journalists assess the mobile communications risks that they are facing, and then use appropriate mitigation techniques to increase their ability to organize, report, and work more safely.
The UN Foundation mobile application allows citizens worldwide to learn more about areas where they want to add their voices, advocate and help support the UN. The UN Foundation app gives you instant access to information on UN Foundation initiatives that are improving children’s health, empowering women and girls, combating climate change, and using innovation and technology to improve the lives of impoverished people around the world. The app also keeps you up-to-date with daily content, photos, videos and push notifications for breaking news.
"I-Network is an ICT for development (ICT4D) organization that is mainly supported by the International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD)."
"WHO is launching (Sept. 2011) a new web-powered initiative that clarifies guidance on life-saving nutrition interventions, and assists governments and healthcare providers to better scale up action against all forms of malnutrition. The WHO e-Library of Evidence for Nutrition Actions (eLENA), launched during today's opening of a three-day Asia regional nutrition meeting in Sri Lanka, helps governments overcome one of the major challenges in fighting malnutrition: the vast, and often conflicting, array of evidence and advice that exists on effective, preventive and therapeutic nutrition interventions.
The AGTR is a dynamic training resource targeted for both researchers and scientists in Animal breeding and genetics.
Spider is a resource center for ICT for Development (ICT4D). Spider functions like a node in a network of actors from academia, public sector, private sector, and civil society. Networking and brokering of knowledge and expertise is combined with support to innovative ICT4D activities in partner countries. The aim of Spider is to support the use of ICT for development and poverty reduction.
With guidance from Text to Change and in partnership with local media organizations, TRAC FM provides citizens in Uganda with a platform to monitor, scrutinize, and discuss public service issues via SMS, radio, and online data visualizations. It does this via the TRAC FM software, a tool for Ugandan radio stations that is built on an open source platform.
The Mobile Media Toolkit is a project of MobileActive.org.
The Mobile Media Toolkit provides guidance on tools, resources, and case studies of how mobiles can be used for reporting, news broadcasting, and citizen media participation on a variety of platforms and in a variety of circumstances.
This Africa Soil Information Service (AfSIS) ict4ag pilot project is underway in Kisongo, Tanzania. This data collection tool helps examine the relationship between agricultural yields and household factor endowments (land, labor and capital). Used as a complement to the AfSIS digital soil mapping, the survey tool will specifically consider the following variables: Household socio-economic data; Agricultural information flows; Inputs and land management practices.
MobileActive.org is the leading network and resource on the use of mobile technology for social impact. They provide field consulting, conduct research, connect people online and through participatory events, and advance the use of mobiles for NGOs and civil society organizations.
The Globally Integrated Africa Soil Information Service (AfSIS) is a large-scale, research-based project to develop a practical, timely, and cost-effective soil health surveillance service to map soil conditions, set a baseline for monitoring changes, and provide options for improved soil and land management in Africa.
AfSIS is building on recent advances in digital soil mapping, infrared spectroscopy, remote sensing, statistics, and integrated soil fertility management to improve the way that soils are evaluated, mapped, and monitored, while significantly reducing the costs to do so.
Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (through project “Dynamic Market Information through Web and Mobile”) has, in association with the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, developed mobile software to provide farm-specific agro-advisory services under the Rural Technology Business Incubator project.
The ESA-initiated DesertWatch project is developing a user-friendly information system based on Earth observation technology to support national and local authorities in responding to the reporting obligations of the UNCCD in monitoring land degradation trends over time.
In their findings presented at the conference, DesertWatch indicated that nearly half of the land in the southeastern African country of Mozambique is degraded.
The purpose of the Youth in Agriculture strategy is to recommend actions and initiatives that all stakeholders can pursue to encourage the active engagement of youth in agriculture across the region. The Youth in Agriculture strategy was presented and launched at the Fourth Regional Meeting of Heads of Agriculture and Forestry Services (HOAFS) that was held early September, 2010 in the Fiji Islands. As part of the strategy development process, sessions on youth in agriculture were held at the Pacific Youth Festival in 2009 and field work was conducted in three countries (Fiji, Kiribati and Tonga) to inform the strategy recommendations.
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