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ICTs are promoted in development cooperation efforts because more than 3 billion people can't afford communication services or live in rural and remote areas, where access to information and communication technologies is scarce or absent. ICTs fall into four main categories: computing and information technology, broadcasting, telecommunications and internet.

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Big Data - Communication policy - GIS - Hardware and software - Internet access - IT training - Mobile technology - Radio/television/print media - Satellite imagery - Technology transfer

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  • Katya Ivanova commented on information | 4 November 2014

    UNESCO's study on reading and mobile technology

    Interesting study. Thanks for sharing! In the same line of thought and building on the foundations of this study, Mobile Learning Week 2015 - UNESCO's flagship ICT in education event, is going to focus on leveraging technology to empower women and girls, especially those living in disadvantaged...

  • Big Data: Big Potential

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 8 September 2014
    Imagine being able to gain information instantly about whether a development project is reaching its intended recipients, or where the next cholera outbreak might be, or track the fluctuating wealth of every district in Cote d’Ivoire. These are some of the possibilities of Big Data analysis, where...
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  • Big Data: Big Potential

    Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 6 August 2014
    Imagine being able to gain information instantly about whether a development project is reaching its intended recipients, or where the next cholera outbreak might be, or track the fluctuating wealth of every district in Cote d’Ivoire. These are some of the possibilities of Big Data analysis, where...
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  • UNESCO's study on reading and mobile technology

    Daniele Di Pillo posted Information | 16 May 2014
    UNESCO published a new study on the role of mobile technology in literacy and learning achievements. Title: Reading in the Mobile Era Publisher : UNESCO, April 2014 Abstract: Mobile technology can advance literacy and learning in underserved communities around the world, according to a new report...
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  • marco mayer commented on an article | 14 April 2014

    Communication is the Responsibility of All Staff, says EuropeAid Deputy Director General

    large scale training of staff in communication is a must

  • Spurring Development and Combating Disease with Mobile Phone Data

    Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 7 March 2014
    International telecommunications company Orange, recently tested the potential for Big Data to contribute to development when it released anonymous data from five million-plus cell phone users in Cote d’Ivoire and invited researchers to see what they could do with the information.
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  • Using Mobile Networks to Bring Medical Services to Remote Areas

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 7 March 2014
    In some of the Amazon regions of Peru, it can take up to 10 hours of uncomfortable and expensive travel by boat to reach a hospital. But new technologies are bridging this physical gap and allowing even the most remote forest communities to access a doctor quickly.
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  • Using Mobile Networks to Bring Medical Services to Remote Areas

    Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 6 March 2014
    In some of the Amazon regions of Peru, it can take up to 10 hours of uncomfortable and expensive travel by boat to reach a hospital. But new technologies are bridging this physical gap and allowing even the most remote forest communities to access a doctor quickly.
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  • Extending Internet Access using White Space

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 5 March 2014
    The gap between broadcasting channels, that fuzzy snow-scene you see when tuning a television for the first time, is not dead space but white space and a potential vehicle for sending information that could be used to bring the internet to some of the world’s most remote communities.
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  • Extending Internet Access using White Space

    Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 3 March 2014
    The gap between broadcasting channels, that fuzzy snow-scene you see when tuning a television for the first time, is not dead space but white space and a potential vehicle for sending information that could be used to bring the internet to some of the world’s most remote communities.
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