Archive for the ‘web application’ 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 »

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 »

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 »

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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Monitoring & Evaluation Digital Library Project

Filed Under: ai work, consulting, project portfolio, solutions, web application by AI on February 6th, 2008

Catholic Relief Services (CRS)

The Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) team at Catholic Relief Services (CRS), a humanitarian relief agency headquartered in Baltimore, had been collecting and compiling an impressive array of digital resources with the goal of creating an M&E Digital Library. The collection included articles, bibliographies, checklists, guides, surveys, and training materials in a variety of formats from PDFs to documents and presentations.

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