All Blog Posts Tagged 'ict4d' (7)

The 2013 Development Leaders Bursaries - worth £15,200 - are available for African applicants to the one-year MSc ICT4D programme (http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/courses/06237/?code=06237&pg=all)

 

They are also tenable on the MSc Mgmt & Info. Systems programme:…

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Six new papers on ICTs, climate change and development are now available online at: http://www.niccd.org/resources.htm

 

They cover topics of mitigation, adaptation, disaster management, strategy, governance, and emergent technologies.

 

If you have active interests in this field, we encourage you to share ideas via http://groups.google.co.uk/group/niccd and to…

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Teachers and technologists gathering at the eLearning Africa 2010 conference in Zambia will be debating a billion dollar question, attempting to work out whether future African students will learn from the telephones in their pockets or from the laptops in their classrooms.



The African continent stunned the world by leapfrogging several stages of traditional telecommunications development and a third of all African citizens are now mobile phone subscribers. Some debaters at eLearning… Continue

A new online paper from the University of Manchester's Centre for Development Informatics describes the development and application of a new eight-level ICT Maturity Model:…

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In what form should you publish your ICT-for-development research for maximum impact? An evidence-based guide is now online at: http://ict4dblog.wordpress.com…

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The 2010 ICT4D Bursary, worth £6,000, is available exclusively for developing country applicants to the University of Manchester's one-year MSc ICTs for Development degree programme (…

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Some positive statistics on the academic side of ICT4D research:

- Between 1999 and 2008, annual output of academic publications on ICTs and developing countries recorded in the main publications database grew by nearly 2000% (a 39% annual average increase).

- And annual output in a set of ICT4D specialist journals (not recorded in the database) grew by 450% from 1998 to 2009.

More details at:…

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