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Libraries and ICTD
Posted on March 22, 2009 by chriscoward
I’m on my way to Veracruz, Mexico to spend a week with Gates Foundation global library grantees for what they call the Peer Learning Meeting. Ever since we started studying libraries about 18 months ago I’ve been wondering, why is it that these institutions of information access haven’t registered on my ICTD radar in the [...]
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ICT4D, ICTD, or what?
Posted on March 11, 2009 by chriscoward
I’ve been re-thinking “ICT4D” and “ICTD” recently, and increasingly coming to the conclusion that I should avoid these terms in reference to the work CIS does in favor of something like “underserved communities and low resource environments” or other descriptor that avoids these acronyms. One of the problems with “ICT4D” is that it connotes different [...]
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Sad news
Posted on March 8, 2009 by chriscoward
While working on a couple of blog posts, this week was interrupted by the sad news of two friends who suddenly passed away. The first was the captain of my soccer team, Rachel Hulscher, who was found dead in a local park. She was the one who recruited me to play and it was her [...]
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ICTD and blogging
Posted on February 20, 2009 by chriscoward
For many yearsI’ve been researching how people in developing countries use information and communication technologies (ICTs) to improve their lives…and here I am with my first blog post. The ICT and Development field has a number of great research blogs. That said, two observations strike me as interesting — One, most of the blogs I [...]
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