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Archive for the ‘resources’ Category
Filed Under: resources by AI on May 24th, 2011
In 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 »
Tags: acumen, bop, social enterprise, water
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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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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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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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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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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Filed Under: mobile, research, resources, solutions by usha on July 18th, 2008
A 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.
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Filed Under: research, resources by AI on July 7th, 2008
Appropriate 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:
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