During our recent visit to Burkina Faso for the Web-alliance for Regreening Africa (W4RA) project , we organized a two days workshop and invited a mixed audience of people working in agriculture/agroforestry in Burkina, people working in the ICT sector in Burkina, and people from development agencies (e.g. IICD), or international organizations working on agroforestry…
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Let me start with my best wishes for 2010!
I’m starting to investigate the business side of ICT4D projects. Identifying the business model is (or should be!) obviously a critical dimension for most ICT4D projects. Indeed, that’s the study of how to make services at least self-sustainable, or to provide revenue to the provider.
Identifying the cost…
Mobile vs. Radio vs. TV vs. the Web
I recently found a very interesting article by Kevin Randall from Fast Company “The Boob-Tube, Not YouTube, Is Transforming the World”. This is a good opportunity to clarify a bit where the Web Foundation stands in that discussion. In few words, the article is about the power and impact of the Web on social and…
Read MoreMobile Web East Africa Conference
I’m glad to see that Matthew Dawes and All Amber are continuing their efforts to promote the Mobile Web in Africa. Last october, i attended and chaired part of Mobile Web Africa which took place in South Africa. This was the first event focusing on this topic in Africa, and this was a real success…
Read MoreSummary of Web Foundation Trip in Africa
A last post about this Africa trip, I swear!
First of all, for those who are interested in media (video, photo) I downloaded lots of video and pictures i took, plus links to some materials I collected from others. All these resources are available on a page on my own personal site. We are working to…
Last Day of the trip
November 27 2009: Last day of the trip started November 12!
This day was not part of the professional investigations, but more like a day-off. As flights to Europe are leaving in the evening, we had the day to come back to Entebbe and fly back home, sweet home! Being in Bwindi, it would have…
Fourth Day in Uganda
November 26 2009: the Fourth day! For those who are starting to be bored by the journey of the Web Foundation in East Africa, don’t worry, this is almost the end !
This day was a second day dedicated to field visit. Leaving Bushenyi early in the day, as usual, at 8:00 we headed to Queen…
Third Day in Uganda
November 25 2009: Third day, beginning of the field visit. As always, heavy day ! we left Kampala at 7:30am en route to Bushenyi, to meet with Eric Cantor, and visit Grameen Foundation AppLab . Normal driving time is 5 hours… with car failure, water leaks… more than 7 hours! Fortunately, Uganda is a…
Read MoreSecond Day in Uganda
November 24 2009: The second day in Uganda was supposed to be a bit lighter… but it was not really! We started with a meeting with the Prime Minister at 8:30. Quite interesting. Like in Kenya, there is a huge expectation from the fiber optic being deployed. Like in Kenya too, Tim promoted transparency, and…
Read MoreFirst Day in Uganda
November 23 2009: Our first day in Uganda was quite heavy. We started with a live radio interview for Tim at Sanyu FM at 7:45am! (thanks Reinier for the link to the full interview!). Sanuy FM has a great view over Kampala because it is at the sixth floor of a high building. This is…
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