The availability and effectiveness of ICT in resolving environmental and social-economic challenges in Tanzania: a case of Arusha & Manyara regions

The project aims at identifying the development, deployment and enhancement of network infrastructure, devices and contents to support information dissemination; To understand the applications used and solutions taken towards supporting information dissemination To Carry out field-based activities that will provide information about the availability and effectiveness of ICT in resolving environmental and social-economic challenges in […]

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Enhancing Access to Kenya’s Agricultural Sciences and Technology (AS&T) Information in Institutional and KAINet e-Repositories

This project aims at enhancing access to an electronic platform allowing archiving, dissemination and sharing of agricultural content (Agricultural Sciences and Technology) between researchers and other stakeholders (public policy official, lecturers, students, members of the public). It promotes a common and freely accessible information system (Kenya Agricultural Information Network-KAINet) and builds capacity to manage, disseminate […]

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Capacity Building in Information Security: Training the end-user

This Project aims at the provision of training to end-users in secure practice for their daily interaction with computers, technology and Internet. In other words, it is about acquiring fundamental understanding of computer and network security threats such as identity theft, credit card fraud, on-line banking phishing scams, virus, etc It also provides end-users with […]

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Integrated Management System for Continuous Medical Education

This project aims at enhancing access and delivery of Continuous Medical Education material to doctors by developing e-learning (via the Internet/web based) and m-learning (mobile phone) Platform It shall also enhance the monitoring and reporting of Continuous Medical Education/Continuous Professional Development (CPD) activities by the Kenya Medical and Dentist Board It establishes a digitized system […]

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Amar Desh Amar Gram (My Country My Village)

Amar Desh Amar Gram (My Country My Village) was the first project of its kind that took computers and web access to the lowest income group on Bangladesh and empowered them with a possibility that was never previously available to them before. This project was an innovative model in the sense that it was dedicated […]

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RuaiSMS to empower grass root communities

RuaiSMS was a communication channel created to empower grass root communities, especially indigenous people communities in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. RuaiTV has been trained around 200 community members to use their cell phones sending news. They were practicing citizen journalism. RuaiTV was opening its news room for grass root communities who were marginalized and never in […]

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Shikkhok.com

The Shikkhok.com project aimed to provide free online education and high-quality courses in Bengali language to rural and disadvantaged students in Bangladesh and India. The Shikkhok.com platform brought together educators and researchers from all over the world to create free-of-cost content in Bengali language on both basic and advanced topics, to develop a model for […]

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eToro: Indigenous Botanical Knowledge Management System of Penans

The eToro platform was a combination of ICTs and community’s activities to support the Indigenous Botanical Knowledge (IBK) management of the Penan community of Long Lamai in Sarawak. The project goal was to preserve the IBK of the community, given that the older generation was slowly dying out, knowledge was not being transferred to the […]

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