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Here’s avery interesting find for TechTuesday. This is a toolkit produced by the Tactical Tech, “an international NGO helping human rights advocates use information, communications and digital technologies to maximise the impact of their advocacy work”. Mobiles in-a-box from the Tactical Technology Collective is a collection of tools, tactics, how-to guides and case studies designed [...]

TechTuesday presents this interesting news article about how small farmers in South Africa are using cellphone to better manage their irrigation system. Small scale sugar cane farmers in South Africa have managed to potentially reduce their direct irrigation costs by US$300 per hectare thanks to the use of a high cellphone technology system that is [...]

TechTuesday presents this online tutorials to spice up your film-making skills. MobileJamFest has four online tutorials on mobile filmmaking which walk viewers through the process of planning, shooting, and editing a video. Click here to view the tutorials.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

For TechTuesday, we have an announcement from MobileActive.org requesting for proposals on mobile applications. To be held in Johannesburg, South Africa from October 13-15, MobileActive08 will convene practitioners, researchers, technologists, and donors to explore how mobile technology is being used to advance social development and the work of NGOs. SANGONeT and MobileActive.org invite interested individuals [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. ————————————————– 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 [...]

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 [...]