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Mobile Entrepreneurs in Ghana

The Web Foundation is establishing its first mobile training lab for entrepreneurs. Vodafone is providing the Web Foundation with $1 million over 3 years to pilot mobile training laboratories in Africa, with the aim of helping  individual entrepreneurs to learn relevant technology and business skills to start new mobile services.

The first laboratory was launched in Ghana at the beginning of 2011. Our objective is to create dynamic mobile Web and voice ecosystems that will enable entrepreneurs to launch their own sustainable businesses, as well as enable all segments of the population to have access to new and innovative services that are useful and usable.

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Web Foundation Announces Publication of Accelerating Development Using the Web: Empowering Poor and Marginalized Populations

May 15, 2012 • Justin Edwards

We are pleased to announce the release of The World Wide Web Foundation’s first major publication, Accelerating Development Using the Web: Empowering Poor and Marginalized Populations, available for download today.

Generously supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and in partnership with the United Nations Development Program, the book is a compendium of articles by recognized experts describing the real and potential effects of the World Wide Web in all major aspects of economic and social development. It provides overviews of the major macro issues – access, capacity, and standards, among others – while also detailing insights into specific business and public policy domains.

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Speech Technologies for Under-Resources Languages (SLTU 2012)

May 10, 2012 • Stéphane Boyera

I was this week in Cape Town (SA) to attend and keynote at SLTU 2012, the third workshop of Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced languages. In few words, it is the community that is working on how to develop Text-To-Speech (TTS) and Speech Recognition (SR) engines for languages that don’t have enough speakers or that are not known enough to be managed by traditional approaches that were developed for e.g. French, Spanish or English.
TTS and SR are essential modules to deliver voice-based services, and in that regards, it is a topic we are working on in all our projects, in particular VBAT and VOICES. While voice-based services can be built in any languages of the World by recording audio prompts, TTS and SR are essential elements to make more advanced, dynamic, multi-channel (web and voice) services. While I’m not at all an expert in this domain, I was interested to learn how other people and organizations are addressing the same problems. I was also interested to see the type of use-cases that the community is working on.

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mEducation Alliance Annual Symposium – CfP opens till 25 May 2012

May 10, 2012 • Stéphane Boyera

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I wanted to make a quick post to announce that the mEducation Alliance in which we are members, has just released the call for Presentation for its second International Symposium – 2012- Partnering for Scale…

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