Archive for the ‘solutions’ Category

Kenya Open Data Initiative (KODI) Heralds a New Era for Access to Information

Filed Under: africa, blog, mobile, regions, solutions, web application by usha on November 18th, 2011

2011 has been a great year for Kenya in the areas of access to information and open data. Read More »

Mapping with Google Fusion Tables

Filed Under: consulting, tools by usha on March 10th, 2011

Google’s Fusion Tables, a way to manage large amounts of data online with powerful visualization capabilities built into it, was recently graduated out of Google Labs and became an app available on the Google Apps dashboard. Read More »

Online Privacy: Enabling Identified, Pseudonymous, & Unidentified Uses

Filed Under: consulting, web application by usha on February 27th, 2011

Alma Whitten (Director of Privacy, Product and Engineering, Google) in her blog post “The freedom to be who you want to be… makes the distinction between three modes of online use which Google sees itself as serving. The distinction between the three is important for those of us who are interested in online privacy, especially for those activists who are working in closed or repressive societies. Read More »

Rules for Organizing a Protest

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

Rules for organizing a protest from How Did the Wisconsin Capitol Occupation Begin, Anyway? by Rebecca Greenfield in today’s The Atlantic:

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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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