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Archive for the ‘resources’ CategoryUnderstanding the Wants and Needs of CustomersFiled Under: resources by AI on May 24th, 2011In their chapter titled “Innovation for the BoP: The Patient-Capital Perspective,” Robert Kennedy (University of Michigan and WDI) and Jacqueline Novogratz (Acumen Fund) give a real-world example of why a social (or any) enterprise should be willing to learn from their customers on what their wants and needs are and be ready to tailor their services appropriately. Read More » ICT for Banking & Micro FinanceFiled Under: africa, asia, economic empowerment, latin america, regions, research, resources, solutions by AI on September 12th, 2008ICT for Livelihood & Skills TrainingFiled Under: academy, africa, asia, capacity building, economic empowerment, latin america, middle east, regions, research, resources, solutions by AI on September 11th, 2008GIS & Mapping ResourcesFiled Under: research, resources, solutions, tools, web application by AI on September 10th, 2008Resource 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. ICT for Market Access and PricingFiled Under: africa, asia, economic empowerment, mobile, regions, research, resources, solutions by AI on September 9th, 2008Email Adventures: Setting up an SPF Record to Combat Domain SpoofingFiled Under: research, resources by usha on August 13th, 2008Our 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. Mobile Applications of the FutureFiled Under: mobile, research, resources, solutions by usha on July 18th, 2008A while ago Google’s Android Developer’s Challenge announced the first round of winners for creating cool mobile applications. The competition elicited 1,788 submissions, of which a panel of judges picked 50 winners who each won a $25,000 award. Reviewing the Top 50 mobile applications slideshow (pdf) gives us a good sense of the reach of mobile applications in the future and how the NGO sector has and can continue to benefit from these developments. Technology Transformations for the Base of the Pyramid (BoP)Filed Under: research, resources by AI on July 7th, 2008Appropriate IT sponsors the Information & Communication Technologies for International Development (ICT4ID) learning network. June’s ICT4ID meetup topic was Technology Transformations for the Base of the Pyramid (BoP). A few additional research resources on the topic: Dialing for DevelopmentFiled Under: africa, asia, middle east, mobile, regions, research, resources, solutions by AI on March 1st, 2008A benefit-feasibility quadrant from the December 2007 working paper on “Going Wireless: Dialing for Development. How Mobile Devices are Transforming Economic Development at the Base of the Pyramid” by David Lehr, Acumen Fund. |
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