The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Nigeria’s technology watchdog, has finalized work on the country’s ICT for development (ICT4D) plan following the final technical ...

I owe part of my IT education to the Open Source community. I enhanced my programming skills using Open Source programming languages; I garnered a better understanding of operating systems through my ...

There's an old story of the fisherman and his cell phone. Sometimes the fisherman hails from Senegal; other times he is from India. But the story – and its lesson – remains much the same. It goes like ...

While there has been great excitement and buzz around various ICT4D projects in recent years, it is also true that many projects started with a bang and later died with a whimper. In short, they have ...

It's hard to think of a facet of human endeavor that is not being somehow transformed by modern information and communication technology. Mobile phones and big data, for example, are being used in ...

ICT for development (ICT4D) scholars claim that the internet, radio and mobile phones can support development. Yet the dominant paradigm of development as economic growth is too limiting to understand ...

ICT4D (Information Communication Technology for Development) powerfully frames women’s grassroots video production in the Global South, much of which is distributed widely through YouTube. Often, ...

The Federal Government and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) have trained officials in the use of Information Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) in monitoring ...