With internet and SMS TradeNet allows rural farmers to advertise their merchandise to an international market and find the fairest price for their crops

ICT Update is a bimonthly printed bulletin, web magazine, and accompanying email newsletter focusing on the use of information and communication technologies in agriculture in African, Caribbean and Pacific countries. It is published in English and French, by CTA (Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation) in Wageningen in the Netherlands.

Description: 'The Internet will be of most use to cropping farmers when providers of agricultural information use it less like a library and more like an interactive field day. It is not its scarcity but the local contextualization of information that makes it valuable for farmers. The huge volume of information available on the Internet is of less value to farmers than the opportunities for interactivity with others that it provides to help make local sense of that information. There is a misma more...

Description: 'The idea of bringing the Internet to Bario was conceived as a research project to determine opportunities for social development available from the deployment of information and communication technologies within remote communities in Sarawak. Desirable results from pilot studies in other developing countries have encouraged the team to work among those communities in Sarawak to have equal access to ICTs, specifically the Internet that could precipitate significant improvements in t more...

Abstract: 'This interview with Mohammed-Sani Abdulai of Ghana took place during the Development Workshop organised in the framework of INET'97, the annual Internet Society conference which was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Mohammed-Sani Abdulai, is a lecturer at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Ghana and Chairman of the Education Committee of the Ghana Chapter of the Internet Society. The interview addressed among other issues whether the fact that many people can't read more...

'Updating data collected from Internet exchanges around the world, professor Andrew Odlyzko, director of the University of Minnesota’sInterdisciplinary Digital Technology Center,reported late last week that Internet traffic rates in the US and globally are continuing to grow at a rate between 50% and 60% (largely unchanged from recent years) -- rapid growth that nonetheless belies dire predictions of an escalation that would clog today’s networks......Last November, Nemertes Research release more...

Maria Isabel Rodriguez is a 57 years old women living in Medellin. For 2 years she has been using the ICTs in daily life. She realized that she needed to learn more about these new technologies to improve her business, and also to learn about all the city´s programs. Nowadays, she does all her accounting on her computer, checks e-mails and even chats with her younger brothers.
Maria Isabel also won the Seed Capital Contest in Medellin, which helped her to start her own business. She received more...

María Isabel Rodríguez es una mujer de 57 años que vive en las estribaciones del barrio San Blas en Manrique, su carácter tiene esa calidez propia de las matronas antioqueñas que hace sentir a todos los que la tratan como si la conocieran desde hace mucho, su mirada se oculta tras unos anteojos bien cuidados que hablan de una enfermedad recién adquirida, no muy grave y tal vez progresiva.
Ella ya tiene dos años de experiencia en el manejo de las herramientas web. Su primer acercamiento a more...

This research paper present a study of anonymized data capturing a month of high-level communication activities within the whole of the Microsoft Messenger instant-messaging system. The dataset contains summary properties of 30 billion conversations among 240 million people. From the data, a communication graph is constructed with 180 million nodes and 1.3 billion undirected edges, creating the largest social network constructed and analyzed to date.

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