ITU (International Telecommunication Union) is the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies – ICTs. Their blog has several categories: Assistive Technology for Disabled Broadband Children Communications Connected Schools Curriculum Development Emergency Telecommunications Gender ICT in Education ICT Infrastructure ICTs for Health low cost laptops Partnerships PwDs Remote/Underserved […]
communication • education • gender • ICTs • rural • United Nations • youthLiving Languages blog
A very rich language resource curated by wakablogger. Prepare to invest many moons reading this wonderful blog.
endangered language • indigenous language • language | preservationThe ICT4D Jester (Kentaro Toyama’s blog)
ICT4D Jester is the blog of Kentaro Toyama, a researcher in the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley. Until 2009, he was assistant managing director of Microsoft Research India, which he co-founded in 2005. At MSR India, he started the Technology for Emerging Markets research group, which […]
education • ICT4D • mobile • satireQuestion Box
Question Box is Open Mind’s initiative to bring information to people the way they want to receive it. For us, that means: Local language Live telephone hotlines SMS answers & more All Question Box projects are tailored to match the needs of the locations we operate in and our partners.
ICT4D • mobile • question box • SMSWorld Bank at a Glance mobile application
The World Bank at a Glance mobile application makes this complex institution accessible. Succinct explanations are supplemented with hyperlinks for deeper information on what interests you. The app provides a comprehensive overview of: All the institutions within the World Bank Group and how they operate Initiatives such as Results and […]
transparency • World BankCyberTracker
CyberTracker Conservation is a South African non-profit company that develops handheld data capture solutions. Their flagship product is called CyberTracker 3 and can be downloaded free from the CyberTracker website. The software itself was first developed as a way to allow non-literate animal trackers to communicate their environmental observations. It […]
CyberTracker • data collection • GPS • smart phone • software • visualizationEvaluating the Digital Songlines Game Engine for Australian Indigenous Storytelling
Abstract This paper reports on a consultative development cycle with remote indigenous peoples around Australia, the protocols established for their respectful engagement, and evaluation of the digital storytelling game engine developed for them. The Digital Songlines (DSL) digital storytelling project is funded by the Australasian Cooperative Research Centre for Interaction […]
3D • Australia • cultural heritage • cultural protocols • digital storytelling • gamingFrontlineSMS
FrontlineSMS is free open source software that turns a laptop and a mobile phone into a central communications hub. Once installed, the program enables users to send and receive text messages with large groups of people through mobile phones. What you communicate is up to you, making FrontlineSMS useful in […]
communication • mobile • open access • textingTalking Book
When powered on, the localized verbal instructions lead users through the audio user interface. To access recordings, users are guided by audio prompts and respond with key presses. For instance, pressing the right and left arrows navigate through categories (for example, “health”, “agriculture”, “stories”) and once in a category, the […]
education • information literacy • knowledge • talking bookLexique Pro
You’ve spent years working on your dictionary, but how easy is it for others to make the most of it? Are the speakers of the language getting any benefit from it? Is it user-friendly enough for a non-linguist to look at? Are translators making the best use of it? Are […]
dictionary • lexiconMapBox
MapBox lets you design fast and beautiful interactive maps and share them on the web and mobile devices. MapBox is the whole package for making maps, from the worldwide street-level basemap MapBox Streets – powered by OpenStreetMap – to the open source map design studio TileMill for making custom maps […]
mapping • open source • visualizationKoBoToolbox
KoBoToolbox was co-founded by Phuong Pham and Patrick Vinck now based at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative who were confronted by the challenges of collecting data in a secure fashion, increasing the quality of survey data, and making results available rapidly after data collection. We first piloted handheld digital data collection […]
data collection • digital tools • toolkitMetaMouse
MetaMouse is a freely available, University of California developed software tool that easily allows schools to increase the utility of their computers up to five times. MetaMouse allows existing single-player educational games and other software to be shared by multiple users in a collaborative manner. With MetaMouse, students can plug […]
collaboration • education • software • youthThe Storytelling Station: an interactive museum kiosk
This museum kiosk, designed as a prototype for the Ndakinna Education Center, provides an interactive introduction to storytelling and the Native American oral traditions of the Northeast. Participants learn about storytelling by: experiencing video interviews and recorded performances with storytellers from the Abenaki, Mohawk, and other northeastern Nations, reading and […]
Abenaki • kiosk • Mohawk • Native American • Ndakinna Education Center • oral tradition • storytellingStory Weaver
Story Weaver is a custom web application created by a team made up of Wade Chambers and David Turnbull of the Native Eyes Project at IAIA and Virginia Murdoch and Joseph Pearson at Inventive Labs, a Web Design firm. The software is constructed on top of an Inventive Labs-built framework […]
asset management • database • digital storytelling • softwareFOSS Digital Curation, Asset Management & Community Archiving Systems
A list of over 25 free and open source digital curation, asset management & community archiving systems that may be of interest to communities (Indigenous or not) seeking to sustain and share words, images, videos, sounds, collections, etc. These tools are free in that you can download the source files […]
archive • asset management • community memory • curation • digital tools • open sourceUshahidi
The Ushahidi Engine is a platform that allows anyone to gather distributed data via SMS, email or web and visualize it on a map or timeline. Our goal is to create the simplest way of aggregating information from the public for use in crisis response.
crisis • mapping • open source • UshahidiBingBee: an information kiosk
A pod of ten unattended “behind-the-glass” computer kiosks has been running at the Raglan Road Multipurpose Centre in Grahamstown for more than three years. The goal is to enhance computational thinking skills, and to provide logic, mathematical, reading and computer literacy skills via edutainment and fun. The technology is explicitly […]
BingBee • information literacy • kiosk • youth