Mr. Jiri is a new mobile app for monitoring tree population in rural environments. Mr. Jiri was newly developed by W4RA to support agro-forestry evaluation of on-farm trees. Mr. Jiri (Mr.Tree in Bambara) was recently co-developed...
The podcast of the session The Web of Voices at EDD, on 26 November 2013. Mobile and web services play a major role in social and economic progress in developing countries. Mobile telephony has shown a massive uptake in the...
Chris Reij, senior fellow at the World Resources Institute in Washington DC, USA, http://www.wri.org/profile/chris-reij "..the challenge is how can we accelerate the sharing of knowledge and information between smallholder farmers...
Interview with Zakery Diarra, by Anna Bon, camera Victor de Boer, translation by Bianivo Mounkoro. Bamako, 22 April 2013.
This is part 1 of a long dialogue between Naomi Dembelé and Anna Bon about the production of high quality sheabutter, the use of mobile phones by women farmers in Mali, and the creation of value chains to improve sales. The...
Le Web par la Voix. Documentaire sur le project VOICES, mis en oeuvre au Mali 2011-2013.
Short film by Victor de Boer. RadioMarché presented by web developer Nana Baah Gyan.
The World Wide Web connects us all. But not yet everyone on this planet enjoys its important benefits: still more than 4 billion people do not have access to the Web. The Web alliance for Regreening in Africa (W4RA) is an...
Women farmers in Tominian , Mali produce pure, high quality sheabutter. They offer it at 1000 fCFA per liter (1,50 EUR). Unfortunately, nobody buys it. Low quality, smelly sheabutter is sold at the local markets for 500 cFA. The...