Tag Archives: ict4d

Amazonian Geeks and Social Activism: An Ethnographic Study

ellen sluis | 27 September 2010, 10:17 pm | tags: , , , , , ,

A couple of months ago I went to Brazil to conduct my MA reseach in the North of Brazil. This ethnographic study offers insight in the usage and appropriation of ICTs and the several projects and initiatives aiming at digital inclusion in this relatively isolated region.

Development Cooperation 2.0 with the 1%CLUB

Kai Henriquez | 28 April 2009, 2:38 pm | tags: , , , ,

Exciting new challenges and opportunities are emerging fast for organizations within the development cooperation sector. A paradigm shift is taking place in which web 2.0 concepts and technologies prove to play a vibrant and fruitful role in providing capacities for people in developing countries with which they can realize what’s meaningful for themselves. New structures for development cooperation are thus…

There is a snake in my computer!

Guido van Diepen | 23 April 2009, 12:34 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , ,

On friday april 17 I met with John, who had set up a few cybercafé’s and telecentres both in Uganda and Tanzania. He has a university degree in mechanical engineering, but as soon as he graduated he started focusing on computers. At this moment he forgot all about mechanics, but in the meanwhile he has developed serious computer skills.…

First impressions on ICT in Kampala

Guido van Diepen | 15 April 2009, 9:47 pm | 7 comments | tags: , , , , , , ,

On the plane from Cairo to Kampala I met a young Ugandan guy of 19 years old who just flew back from a tennis match in Egypt. He was a real cosmopolitan; he had traveled already all over the world for tennis matches, he studied as well in Uganda as in South Africa and he got a scholarship for next…

Zambia…the end of Holiday

Rikus Wegman | 07 May 2008, 2:25 pm | 4 comments | tags: , ,

Holiday is over in Zambia. After a couple of weeks in which Zambian teachers had the chance to join in on a variety of different ICT workshops throughout the country it is now time to go back to their pupils and overwhelm them with all the new knowledge and skills they have learned.