Changing header!

I just changed the image in the header of my blog!

I shot this picture last year, in August, walking on the Bund in Shanghai. China is looking ahead!!!
What do you think?

Jan Chipchase at TED

These days we are ending the Forum on Mobile Telephony in Rural Areas with the question: “What is your vision for the future? Here we are looking for suggestions for new services or improving existing services, and ideas for collaboration going forward?“

Some interesting ideas from Jan Chipchase at TED about the future of mobile. I’ll [...]

Map of mobile projects for development

To have a visual approach to mobile for development, I prepared a map on GoogleMaps to distribute geographically the projects I’ve been monitoring so far:
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It would be very nice if people knowing other projects would like to contribute to this mapping effort.

Mobile Telephony in Rural Area – Week I Summary

The summary of the discussions of Week I of the online forum on “Mobile Telephony in Rural Area” is ready to be downloaded.

Social media is taking place on Google

This morning I found out that Google interface is changed.
As you can see on the image, new buttons have been added to the screen while reading the list of results.

Three new features are now available:

promote
remove
comment

Just checking techcrunch, and reading the Google blog, it seems like I won’t be one of the few testers able to [...]

Will cellphones replace other ICTs?

With his article called “Rural communication: Is there still a need for telecentres now that there are mobile phones?” Ion Howard of the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) affords a very interesting topic.

The problem is real: will mobile phones replace other ICTs wherever they are not yet developed? In my opinion, they are a killer [...]

Do you know 2.0?

Is the school preparing children to address the coming world?
Are development projects addressing new forms of education as effective tools to fight and prevent future poverty and hunger?
Open questions for which I don’t have answers but only ideas…

Forum on Mobile Telephony in Rural Areas

The Forum is up and running.
People from more than 40 different countries already introduced themselves and are ready to share experience, ideas and vision with us.
Join it at http://www.e-agriculture.org/regform.html

Who is using mobile phones for development – part 2

As the online Forum on “Mobile Telephony in rural areas” is getting closer, the list of projects using mobile is getting longer and longer. I have to thanks the participants to the KM4Dev list who have been proposing examples of application they were aware of. Let’s see what’s new around the table:
mDevelopment

Launched in the late [...]

Open Invitation to the Virtual Forum on “Mobile telephony in rural areas”

This is an open invitation to take part to the online forum on “Mobile Telephony in rural areas” which will take place from the 17 to the 28 of November.
Mobile technology for development seems to be today an excellent solution in support of many development activities. As you remember, we introduced the topic [...]

CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE

CHANGE seems to be the KEY word all over the world these days.
At FAO, two main events just took place last week. The Organization is undertaking a deep and serious process of internal restructuring. After the IEE (Independent External Evaluation) report, which suggested many and different changes in the strategy, the approach and the structure, [...]

Monitoring 2008 US elections using web mapping

How GoogleMaps mapped the 2008 US elections:

Visiting the radio and video studio of FAO

Some days ago a group of communicators working for different services of FAO had a very interesting visit to the radio and video studio of the organization.

Ten of us, part of the “bluebar” communicators list, spent the morning with the responsible for the infrastructure debating on: how to use the facility, the recent and past [...]