FSCA Regional Workshop in Monrovia

Almost ready to the start of the second FSCA Regional Workshop here in Monrovia, Liberia. During the third day I will spend the morning introducing Communication for Development and Knowledge Sharing to the tens of people working in the seven countries (Senegal, The Gambia, Mali, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau) involved in the projects [...]

Climate Change and Communication for Development

Today, for the Blog Action Day ‘09, the topic is the connection between Communication for Development, the discipline managed by the Team I’m part of at FAO, and Climate Change, the topic all of us are dealing with these days and in the near future.
Writing this post is not an easy job due to the [...]

Tomorrow: Blog Action Day ‘09 on Climate Change

Register now and contribute tomorrow!

4th AMARC Pan African Conference Starts

The 4th AMARC Pan African Conference is just started and immediately appeared to be a very useful occasion to get in touch with Radio broadcasters here in Abidjan. What’s better to spend time around a table talking, and most of all, listening to people involved everyday in radio broadcasting?

Thanks to a very good wifi access, [...]

4th AMARC Pan African Conference

I’m very happy to participate to the AMARC Africa’s 4th Pan African Conference!
At the Conference, AMARC will gather its members, community radio stakeholders and relevant partner organizations to discuss the challenges of community radio in Africa. In his invitation, Marcelo Solervicens, Secretary General of AMARC, is eager to stimulate further collaboration between the major partners.
In [...]

The ability of creating linkages through the Internet

I recently found this article and I think it’s worth reading it. Written by Seth Godin, it’s called “How to make money using the Internet“. As you can understand from the title, the article is meant for a business audience and not directly for people involved in development projects.
Nonetheless, I see interesting prods about how [...]

Participatory photography?

In Darlene E. Clover’s description participatory photography:
“places the medium of the camera into the hands of learners to democratize the image-making dynamic and give them the power to show and speak their own realities.”
Learn more on participatory photography with the PhotoVoice Manual.
p.s.: I was able to know participatory photography and learn about it thanks [...]

Why local content creation is so important for farmers

Interview during the MobileActive 2008 World Summit (Johannesburg, South Africa) with Mary NAKIRYA, Program coordinator at BROSDI, Busoga Open Source & Development Initiative, in Uganda.
Mary explains how the CELAC (Collecting & Exchange of Local Agricultural Content) project enables farmers to voice record their own innovative techniques and how they disseminate their experiences with radio/CD players [...]

Blogging from your iPhone

WordPress released an application with which you can blog directly from your iPhone. You can download it form here.
I’ve been starting using it!

Can you imagine what does that mean in addition to another app which can record voices, the images you shot with the embedded camera and the video you can ultimately shot with the [...]

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

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, [...]

Writeshop on Video for development

These days FAO is hosting a very interesting writeshop about how to use Video for development. Introducing the event, the organizers declare the objective to:
document experiences and provide guidance to readers on the application of video for rural and agricultural development
So FAO, CTA, gtz and the University of Wageningen, gathering experts in Rome, want to [...]

The first competitor for the iPhone

A new challenge for the iPhone was launched yesterday: it is the first mobile phone with Android inside.
Even if not everybody seems to be so enthusiast about the product, more than everything else in the DEV perspective, at least, I see a very interesting trend for prices. The announced price is 120 Eur (at certain [...]

New connection for the South of the world

It is called O3b and stands for other3billion: that’s to say the 3 billion people who are not connected yet to the Internet. It is a new initiative funded by Google, Liberty Global, and HSBC to build a new telecommunications infrastructure, with 16 satellites, offering high-speed, low-cost Internet connectivity to emerging countries.
The service is supposed [...]