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Heres’s an interesting reading for TechTuesday from the DevelopmentGateway about how ICT are becoming essential tools in providing agricultural extensions services.
This paper reports on the 6th Consultative Expert Meeting of the ACP-EU Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation Observatory (CTA) on ICTs. The summary report provides an outline of the main issues, developments and trends [...]

For TechTuesday we found this interesting tidbit. haven’t gotten around to testing them out yet though.
The first edition of the UNESCO “Virtual Laboratory Toolkit” has just been released on the World Wide Web and within UNESCO’s Public@ series of representative “open access” CD-ROMs that are giving access to information in the public domain or to [...]

For TechTuesday, we are very excited to try out the new version of FrontlineSMS. I’ve been having fun toying with the previous version and am now looking forward to testing the new version on a suitable popular campaign here in the Philippines.
Visit Kiwanja.net- developers of the app and download frontlinesms here.

TechTuesday brings you these very useful tips on writing radio scripts. This is from our favorite farm radio resource - Farm Radio International
This paper is intended to share with the reader the steps in script writing that we at Farm Radio International follow to ensure that our final product - which is the written radio [...]

TechTuesday again! here’s an interesting article from the NYT asking a rather intriguing question; can the cellphone be the savior of third world countries? This article shows how the mobile phone has benefited people from the developing countries by enabling them faster access to information, increasing income and becoming an important business tool. More interestingly, [...]

TechTuesday brings you this announcement of free online course on Networking in Support of Development. 
The Food and Agriculture Organization and the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation invite applications from e-agriculture.org members to participate in a free four-day Online e-learning Course:
NETWORKING IN SUPPORT OF DEVELOPMENT
The First Course for Applicants in Africa will be held [...]

TechTuesday again! I’m really into cellphone tech these days and i found this fascinating read about some interesting ways mobile applications are being used in the Philippines.
The Philippines are a leader in the use of mobile telephones for access to a range of services from m-Banking to m-Education and m-Governance. The Phillipines experience shows that [...]

TechTuesday and i found this nice read from iicd.
Agriculture is an important sector with the majority of the rural population in developing countries depending on it. The sector faces major challenges of enhancing production in a situation of dwindling natural resources necessary for production. The growing demand for agricultural products, however, also offers opportunities for [...]

Here’s another very interesting article on how SMS phones are revolutionalizing rural farming in Asia. Indeed it seems the SMS phone IS the Computer.
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Through its Warana Unwired project, researchers at the Technology for Emerging Markets (TEM) group at Microsoft Research India (MSR India) worked with a 70,000-person rural sugarcane cooperative to run an experiment replacing [...]

AsiaDHRRA, in partnership with Intel Technology, successfully concluded the three-day “Regional Workshop on Community-Based ICT Integration” last 14 March with thirty-one participants from six Asian countries attending. The workshop, held in Legend Hotel, Pasig City, aimed to have a full understanding of the past and current initiatives by civil society organizations in bridging the digital [...]

Tech Tuesday again, and we bring you this interesting story of how filipino farmers in remote areas are using the internet to research and find answers to problems they encounter in farming. Got this off inquirer.net
By Anselmo Roque
inquirer.net
SCIENCE CITY OF MUÑOZ — Confronted with a pest attack on his rice field, Marcelino Dizon, [...]

AsiaDHRRA and Intel Philippines is set to conduct a 2-day Regional Workshop entitled “Community-based ICT Integration: Lessons and Possibilities” on March 13-14, 2008 at the Legend Villas, Mandaluyong City, Metro-Manila, Philippines.
The workshop hopes to glean lessons and identify guideposts in the continuing effort to bridge the digital divide that hinders access to development opportunities of [...]

Click here to visit the workshop blog where you can download presentations and view pictures…

Its TechTuesday again! and having recently celebrated the other half of the world last March 8 i thought of posting something techie with a gender twist. And here’s an inspiring article from IDRC about how African rural women farmers are benefiting from ICTs. It shows how “a variety of tools and tactics serve both [...]

For today’s TechTuesday, I present you the impressive application called FrontlineSMS developed by the techies at kiwanja.net. Btw, did i tell that its FREE! i’m downloading it now and gonna test it soon.
FrontlineSMS is the first text messaging system to be conceived, designed and written firmly with the needs of the non-profit sector in mind. [...]