How WordPress is Made…

Filed Under: consulting, tools by usha on February 25th, 2011

A few thoughts on How WordPress is Made:

Distributed work environments are going to become increasingly more common. Questions of how to foster team collaboration or create a company culture will become more complex. Read More »

Twitter Archiving Tools

Filed Under: tools, web application by usha on February 25th, 2011

From ReadWriteWeb. Slightly dated, but still very useful list of tools to archive your twitter history. Someone, please build a usable Twitter archive app. :-) Read More »

Box.Net for Document Management

Filed Under: tools, web application by usha on January 29th, 2011

Initial research suggests that box.net may be one possible option. Reasons to like: Read More »

Searching for a Document Management System

Filed Under: tools, web application by usha on January 28th, 2011

Looking for:

  • Share with a large group (50+) of people
  • Integrate with Google Apps (possibly single sign on)
  • Ability to tag or categorize documents
  • Ability to search through documents, or at least search through tags Read More »

ICT for Banking & Micro Finance

Filed Under: africa, asia, economic empowerment, latin america, regions, research, resources, solutions by AI on September 12th, 2008

ICT for Development Case Studies Series

IV. Banking & Micro Finance

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ICT for Livelihood & Skills Training

Filed Under: academy, africa, asia, capacity building, economic empowerment, latin america, middle east, regions, research, resources, solutions by AI on September 11th, 2008

ICT for Development Case Studies Series

III. Livelihood & Skills Training

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GIS & Mapping Resources

Filed Under: research, resources, solutions, tools, web application by AI on September 10th, 2008

Resource list from ICT for Development Learning Network’s August event on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Development: Experiences from the Field. The event was co-hosted by AED and Appropriate IT. Carmen Tedesco, Program Officer and Geospatial Coordinator at AED, moderated the panel discussion and also contributed to the resource list below.

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ICT for Agriculture Extension Services

Filed Under: africa, asia, economic empowerment, latin america, middle east, regions, solutions by AI on September 10th, 2008

ICT for Development Case Studies Series

II. Agriculture Extension Services

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ICT for Market Access and Pricing

Filed Under: africa, asia, economic empowerment, mobile, regions, research, resources, solutions by AI on September 9th, 2008

ICT for Development Case Studies Series

I. Market Access and Pricing

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Email Adventures: Setting up an SPF Record to Combat Domain Spoofing

Filed Under: research, resources by usha on August 13th, 2008

Our domain got spoofed. The first indication was a ton of auto-responders in the past week that all got delivered to our catch-all email account. Most of these auto-responders were supposedly in response to our emails. But looking at the message header revealed a ton of emails with our domain name but unknown user names. TerimaddoxSilver@appropriateit.org, JennaeconometricGalindo@appropriateit.org, HenriettasuperstitiousLin@appropriateit.org, and so on and so forth. This is just a sample. We had 70+ such unknown users on one single day.

Setting up a Sender Policy Framework (SPF) record is one way to prevent domain spoofing.

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