Link TB with Technology (LTT)

Operation ASHA is an NGO that provides Tuberculosis (TB) care to the most disadvantaged populations. It has presence in India, Cambodia and our model is replicated in parts of Africa. In Cambodia, they work closely with the Government to implement the TB program in 8 provinces, reaching out to about 15% of the population. Cambodia […]

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Monitoring and early warning of landslides in Vietnam

Vietnam is a country heavily influenced by climate change. The effect of climate change leads to a series of dangerous phenomena, such as landslides. Landslides occur not only in the mountainous province, but also in Delta provinces, where hundreds of landslides are reported annually in the North-Western provinces of Vietnam. These events have catastrophic impact […]

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Using Mobile Application and Mapping Platform to Increase Accountability in Delivery of Maternal Health Services for Tea Garden Workers in Assam

Tea garden workers in Assam (India) face extreme socioeconomic exclusion; with women workers routinely denied access to healthcare and nutritional benefits. As a result, Assam has the highest maternal mortality rate in India. To address these gaps, Nazdeek in partnership with Promotion, Advancement, Justice and Human Rights of Adivasi (PAJHRA), the International Centre for Advocates […]

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Chuuk State Solar Server Education Hub

The PISCES Project was bringing solar powered Internet connectivity and related computing technology to remotely located schools in Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). At present, remotely located schools across the Pacific lack two key conditions for realizing technology-in-the-schools project success: electricity and Internet connectivity. To help advance these schools and provide new educational opportunities, […]

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Digitalizing and preserving Oro, a secret signage language of the nomadic Penans in the rainforest

In 2013, the ISITI and Polytechnic of Namibia with the collaboration of Long Lamai community initiated a project for digitalizing and preserving of Oroo’. Oroo’ is a living cultural heritage of the Penan which from a historical, political, social and scientific perspective is of extreme value to society. The community elders acknowledge the growing interest […]

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Chiang-Rai MeshTV: An Educational Video-on-Demand (E-VoD) System for a Rural Hill-Tribe Village via a Community Wireless Mesh Network (CWMN)

The project aimed to setup an educational Video-on-Demand system that runs on top of a Community Wireless Mesh Network (CWMN) in a rural tribal village in Chiang-Rai province located in the northern part of Thailand. The system, ‘Chiang-Rai MeshTV’, brings easy-to-use Video-on-Demand capabilities to a remote rural community, which is lagged far behind modern urban […]

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Using technology to improve citizen science monitoring of coral reefs in Indonesia

CoralWatch integrated volunteer monitoring of coral reefs with education about coral reef conservation. Volunteers worldwide collect data on reef health using the Coral Health Chart and then submit this online to our global database. Indonesia is home to the world’s most diverse reefs and raising awareness about threats to these reefs, has been a key […]

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Cook Islands Maori Database

Cook Islands Maori and its various dialects are listed on UNESCO’s endangered languages list. There is concern that the language will not survive into the 21st century. The aim of the project was to develop an online resource/tool that would be easily accessible to Cook Islanders and those interested in Cook Islands Languages. What has […]

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Enhancing Communication and Co-operation across South Asia: An ICT Solution to Script Barriers

Sindhi in Arabic script is recognized as the language of Sindh in Pakistan with a fairly developed print culture in the form of newspapers, magazines and other publications and University departments researching into the language. It has its own True type fonts that are cheap and easily accessible. However, literature or electronic Sindhi produced in […]

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