Mainstreaming ICT

I’ve been a bit quiet - It called being fully committed to projects at the moment, a rare and happy condition - but here is an update on a few things I should have blogged about.
1. Progress on Community Mobile Channels
I have been tied up with client projects so progress has been slow - the [...]

There are now so many applications on the internet or generally available that it can be very confusing to choose which one/ones to use.  Having looked at a lot of applications I tend to go with the less is more approach and my short list of recommendations is given below. I have split it into [...]

On Tuesday I was privileged to go to Cape Town for the Launch of Net Tuesdays in South Africa. It was great to see many people working and interested in social media and mobile web developments. I really hope that this initiative will go from strength to strength and I am hoping for collaborations with [...]

The most visited post on this site has been the “quick brain dump of great resources for the mobile developer” -  In that post I mentioned a number of other interesting technologies that I did not have time to cover. So here is quick brain dump of great resources for the mobile developer that I [...]

Looking through the Millenium Goals together the resources I had previously put together for the Microsoft Challenge I came very distrubing facts and figures regarding child mortality especially related to poor and remote locations and non-reporting of births.
Based upon this I quickly wrote up a idea based around notification and follow up of Births and [...]

It seems that the M4Change tag on delicious worked. So, following on from EngageJoes comments regarding the Mobile Ideas Factory - I have compiled a quick braindump of information that I have come across that would be of use to a mobile developer / person working with tech in the non-profit sector. There is much [...]

On Saturday I had the good fortune to meet up with Brenda Burrell, Bev Clark and Amanda Atwood from Kubatana Trust of Zimbabwe. They do a lot to strengthen the use of tech by NGOs in Zimbabwe (not an easy task) and have a very impressive project called “Freedom Fone” which uses innovative phone technology [...]

Unfortunately the digital age continues to expand the difference between rich and poor. This is very true with respect to Internet bandwidth. In many developing countries people find that they have limited access to Internet connections. Even where there are broadband Internet connections, they are usually expensive and the speeds are slow in comparison to [...]

It is important to ensure that staff are competent with the technology tools they are suppose to use. All staff skills and training needs should be captured and action plans should be made where training needs have been identified. These plans should be integrated into reviews / personal development programmes for staff.
There is a good [...]

Managing data for any organisation can be a difficult task. An integrated strategy that brings together the data into one or two database systems can significantly improve the management of data.
Whatever organisation you are running you will need to keep track of your finances. Accounts software such as Pastel or Quickbooks are reasonable choices for [...]