The Digital Divide is commonly associated with those parts of the world where access to Internet and Web is poor or lacking. However, even in places such as the city of Amsterdam, where Internet infrastructure and access are...
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A global community to develop mobile voice-based web technologies for empowerment.
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Tiballi - Decolonizing the Internet - action research project in Ghana
About the Tiballi project Can advanced AI methods (ML, NLP) be reconstructed so as to make the Internet more inclusive for communities in low-resource environments in the Global South — such that local weather data combined with...
Community-centered, Project-based ICT4D Education in the Field
The growing demand for user-centered, sustainable, collaborative and ecosystem-aware ICT4D programs and projects brings new requirements for education & training of ICT4D professionals. This working paper presents a post-graduate...
ICT4D Researcher Francis Dittoh at RadioNet: the real problem of not being connected
Book: Intervention or Collaboration ? Rethinking Information and Communication technologies for Development
Over the past decades information system developers and knowledge engineers in ICT projects in wealthy regions of the world have come to realize that technical work can only be successful when situated in a broader organizational...
Uncovering cultural differences between African an European Storytelling using Artificial Intelligence
For her master research in Artificial Intelligence, Gossa Lô uses Computational Linguistics Techniques and Deep Learning to generate narratives in West African style. Storytelling is a powerful form of communication, that has the...
Regreening the Sahel, shown in 3D and virtual reality
How does regreening work? How do farmers improve their lands? How does zaï work? What is farmer-managed natural regeneration? How do you protect young trees? How do you use rain data to improve plan cropping calendars? How do you...
Downscaling the Web to make it accessible to those who are currently unconnected
On 29 August, the 4th International Workshop on Downscaling the Semantic Web (Downscale2016) was held as a full-day workshop in Amsterdam co-located with the ICT4S conference. The workshop attracted 12 participants and we received...
ICT user requirements engineering workshop with farmers in Gourcy, Burkina Faso
From 20 to 24 June 2016, the W4RA team was in Gourcy, Burkina Faso a facilitated a new ICT4D requirements engineering workshop with farmers-innovators of the Yatenga and Zondoma regions, Burkina Faso. The workshop was organized...