Many linguists claim as many as half of the world’s nearly 7,105 languages spoken today could disappear by the end of this century. When a language becomes extinct, communities lose their cultural identity and practices tied to a language and intellectual wealth. Preservation of endangered languages is critical, but a […]
2016 • application • crowdsourcing • endangered language • knowledge management • language | preservation • Māori • mobile • revitalization • social mediaEn Route for the Sustainability of Digital Local Content for Mobile Learning to Preserve Malay Local Cultural Heritage
This study voices serious concern about the sustainable development of Malay digital local cultural content. Digital local content is crucial in learning local cultural subjects in Asia countries, such as Malay culture. However, there is a serious lack of digital local content for mobile learning purposes in Malaysia. One of […]
challenges • culture • education • local content • Malaysia • Mat Salleh • mobileArteria – A Regional Cultural Mapping Project in Portugal
This paper discusses the relation between cultural mapping and participatory community cultural mapping, proposing the integration of a mobile device application (app) in the cultural mapping process of the Arteria project. This application aims to expand the notion of cultural appropriation by exploring how citizens can make crucial contributions to […]
application • Arteria • community mapping • cultural heritage • intangible • mapping • mobile • participatoryLeveraging ICT and Indigenous Knowledge in the Nigerian Flea Market Business
This study is an exploratory investigation of the role of ICT and indigenous knowledge in the relative success of “Flea” Market vendors in Nigeria in spite of the close proximity that bites into their pricing and patronage. Observation and interviews techniques were used to elicit information from vendors selected through […]
2014 • Abeokuta • competition • conflict resolution • flea market • ICTs • indigenous / traditional knowledge • Kampala • mobile • Nigeria • tradeReviving extinct languages the mobile way
Excerpt from source: Sunkanmi Olaleye – a master’s student in computer science – is investigating how novel mobile technology can interface with African digital heritage documents as a way of preserving the extinct |Xam language. “So many languages in Africa are becoming extinct. There’s this craving for English, at the […]
|Xam • 2015 • Africa • digital heritage • language | preservation • mobile • revitalization • South Africa • UnicodeTelling our Stories: Aboriginal young people in Victoria and Digital Storytelling
This project worked with Aboriginal youth under the age of 25 – an age group that forms the majority of the Aboriginal population in Victoria and is among the highest users of mobile phones, actively engaging in social media and other online platforms. With the advent of Web 2.0 technologies, Aboriginal […]
2014 • aboriginal • Australia • digital • digital storytelling • identity • mobile • Victoria • youthLanguage app: Diné Bizaad
Purpose The Diné Bizaad app is to use the World Wide Web as a repository to perpetuate Diné language communication and education. We do this with an inclusive ensemble of Diné language enthusiasts, who continuously add content shared from Diné communities and from their personal contributions into the Diné Bizaad […]
database • dictionary • Diné • language | preservation • language app • mobile • Native Innovation • participatoryThe Use of Social Media Technologies to Create, Preserve & Disseminate IK
The preservation, management, and sharing of indigenous knowledge is crucial for social and economic development in rural Africa. The high rate of illiteracy (print-based) in rural Africa and the exclusion of indigenous knowledge from Western education add to the information gap experienced in rural Africa. Other challenges facing oral cultures […]
2014 • Africa • culture | preservation • indigenous / traditional knowledge • knowledge sharing / exchange • libraries • mobile • social mediaInformation to Iteration: Using information and communication technologies [ICT] in design for remote regions
Remote design comes with significant challenges. A major barrier to designing in remote regions is the lack of communication between designers and users. As a result, the lack of information flow leads to assumptions about the community’s needs- an inherent weakness in the design process. This study examines the role […]
2012 • challenges • communication • community • design • mobile • remote regionsThe Challenges and Opportunities of Using Mobile Devices to Attain Māori Language Proficiency
What are the effects of using mobile devices as part of teacher professional development focused on teaching and learning the Māori language for Māori immersion educational settings? Answers to this question are explored by researching the extent to which electronic devices could be an effective strategy to address the crisis […]
2014 • education • Hei Korowai • indigenous language • language | preservation • Māori • mobile • researchWhy is it so hard to try something new in ICT4D?
How do you get aid workers to think about new ways of doing things and ensure technologies or tools introduced work in the local context and lead to sustainable change? As impact and scale become increasingly important, Laura Walker Hudson uncovers the barriers to making innovations work at an organisational […]
2013 • challenges • development • FrontlineSMS • ICT4D • ICTs • mobile • scalability • sustainabilityICT4D: Connecting People for a Better World
Are information and communication technologies (ICT) such as computers, mobile phones, radio, TV, video and the Internet effective instruments to empower people, reduce poverty and improve lives? Or are ICT just deepening already existing inequalities and divisions in the world? In this book, key innovators, leading CEOs, top-level government leaders […]
2004 • challenges • ICT4D • ICTs • mobile • toolkitImpact assessment of ICT-for-development projects: a compendium of approaches
Billions of US dollars are invested each year by the public, NGO and private sectors in information-and-communication-technologies-for-development (ICT4D) projects such as telecentres, village phone schemes, e-health and e-education projects, egovernment kiosks, etc. Yet we have very little sense of the effect of that investment. Put simply, there is far too […]
2009 • ICT4D • impact of | ICTs • mobile • telecenterM4D Overview: an Introduction to Mobile Phones for Development
M4D Overview 1.0 – the 2009 introduction to mobile for development describes and discusses how mobile devices are used in the developing world to enable economic and technological growth in developing countries. The report presents a broad overview of various reports and studies, ranging from United Nations organisations to reports […]
2009 • 2010 • development • M4D • mobileStoryBank: Mobile Digital Storytelling in a Development Context
A paper by David M. Frohlich, Dorothy Rachovides, Kiriaki Riga, Ramnath Bhat, Maxine Frank, Eran Edirisinghe, Dhammike Wickramanayaka, Matt Jones and Will Harwood (2009) Abstract Mobile imaging and digital storytelling currently support a growing practice of multimedia communication in the West. In this paper we describe a project which explores […]
2009 • development • digital storytelling • HCI4D • human computer interaction • India • mobile • multimediaMobile Web for Social Development (MW4D)
The MW4D Interest Group explores how to use the potential of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on Mobile phones as a solution to bridge the Digital Divide and provide minimal services (health, education, governance, business, …) to rural communities and under-privileged populations of Developing Countries.
development • digital divide • ICTs • internet • mobile • social changeAfrica Information Technology Initiative (AITI)
MIT Accelerating Information Technology Innovation (AITI) is a multidisciplinary group of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s International Science and Technology Initiative (MISTI) that promotes development in emerging regions by cultivating young technology entrepreneurs. AITI develops curriculum materials, software technologies, platforms, and networks that enable undergraduate students in emerging regions to […]
development • education • entrepreneurship • ICTs • mobileAptivate
What do we do? We are an NGO and not-for-profit organisation that provides IT services for international development. We work on both grant funded projects and direct partnerships with NGOs. We collaborate with NGOs to strengthen the use of IT in their programmes. We offer impartial advice on strategy, policy, […]
appropriate technology • development • ICT4D • mobile • policyCatholic Relief Services – ICT4D
Today people in the developing world have access to new, innovative, and affordable information and communications technology (ICT) that just a few years ago was non-existent or out of reach. CRS has been active in using these technological advances to manage and improve the quality of its services. By taking […]
agriculture • development • health • ICT4D • ICTs • mobileMobile Technologies for Preservation of Indigenous Knowledge in Rural Communities
In this paper we explore the opportunities of mobile technologies in three of our own development endeavors with rural communities, promoting the preservation of indigenous knowledge. We reflect upon and recognize the fact that the representation of indigenous knowledge will be transformed within the digitalization process under the limitations and […]
2013 • appropriate technology • culture | preservation • indigenous / traditional knowledge • mobile • representation • ruralInformation and Communications Technologies for Development at Georgia Tech
Research and Projects This program explores information and communication technologies (ICTs) – in particular the internet and mobile networks – in low-income and low-infrastructure countries and contexts. This field is sometimes referred to as ICT4D (information and communication technologies for development). We are always on the look-out for new and […]
HCI4D • ICT4D • internet • last mile • mobile • rural • sustainabilityFAILfaire: Learning from #FAILs in ICT and Mobiles for Development
Projects succeed, projects fail. The successes are reported on, the failures are filed away. Or, in the case of most ICT 4 Development or Mobile 4 Development projects, pushed under the proverbial rug. Well, its time to bring out the failures, with a sense of humor, and with an honest […]
development • failure • ICT4D • Inveneo • mobileictdchick – information technology, healthcare, and africa (Melissa Densmore’s blog)
I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Technology for Emerging Markets Group at Microsoft Research India. I recently completed my PhD at the University of California, Berkeley School of Information, where I was a member of the Technology and Infrastructure for Emerging Regions Research Group. From January 2009-April 2010, I […]
HCI4D • health • ICT4D • mobile • TIERKiwanja.net: where technology meets anthropology, conservation and development
“kiwanja.net is the fulfilment of a life-long journey – a passion for technology which began at an early age with the dismantling of old TV’s and radios the chance to play with an early Commodore PET computer, and a later fascination with the world around us, its nature and its […]
anthropology • conservation • development • ICT4D • Kiwanja • mobileMobileActive.org
MobileActive.org is a community of people and organizations using mobile phones for social impact. We are committed to increasing the effectiveness of NGOs around the world who recognize that the 3.5 billion mobile phones provide unprecedented opportunities for organizing, communications, and service and information delivery. We work together to create […]
communication • ICT4D • mobile • MobileActive • social change