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In 2003, leaders at the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) agreed that by 2015, more than half the world should be in reach of the […]
Entries Tagged as 'ICT4D'
Can the digital divide be bridged?
November 18th, 2005 · 3 Comments
Tags: ICT4D · Technologies
InterSwitch initiates Operation Cashless
November 16th, 2005 · No Comments
InterSwitch Limited, electronic transaction switching and payment processing company, in its bid to promote card based transactions has launched Operation Cashless initiative. The launch is a turning point in the campaign to bring banks and financial institutions to work together to achieve sole purpose of driving the country towards a cashless society.
According to Mitchell Elegbe, […]
Tags: Business & Entrepreneurship · ICT4D · Technologies
17 years old Samuel Odofin emerged runners up in World Summit Youth Award…
November 10th, 2005 · No Comments
The World Summit Youth Award (WSYA) aims to empower youth by creating digital opportunity. It was an international competition for youth-led projects that encourage the active participation of young people in the emerging Information Society. The three WSYA categories were Development, Creativity & Culture and Community Engagement.
The world’s most creative and empowering youth-led websites have […]
AYF announces winners of the Youth Award
November 8th, 2005 · No Comments
The African Youth Foundation Youth Awards Essay Competition on ICT and EDUCATION winners have emerged. The title of the essay competition for the AYF Youth Award 2005 was “ICT and Education“. The Youth Award, whose aim was for the young people to elicit and disseminate their views on the needs and benefits of ICT and […]
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Google New Product: Google Base
October 27th, 2005 · 1 Comment
Well, the news is out but as of right this moment the product isn’t (publically). Tom Oliveri, Google’s product marketing manager, reviewed the new Google product, Google Base yesterday. Google Base is ‘Google’s database’ to which folks can add any type of content to and they host it, make it searchable for free. Idea here […]
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