Boosting the Pipeline of Women in Technology through role modelling and information dissemination

AfChix is a network of women in IT who work on a volunteer basis. We mentor girls to consider careers in Computer Science and IT through visits to schools, celebrating annual Girls in ICT Days , runni Brief Project Description The project aimed at documenting high quality stories and videos featuring successful women in Information […]

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Rwanda GBV Monitor

Rwanda GBV Monitor aggregates data on gender based violence from disparate sources in Rwanda including GBV Helpline, Isange One Stop Centers, online news, and NGO reports, among others. Data and insights on GBV available through Rwanda GBV Monitor aim at sensitizing the public and media on the extent of gender based violence in Rwanda. Monitor […]

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Library for Blinds and Visual Impaired

The Pavillon Blanc library dedicated to the blind and partially sighted was thought and created to resolve at least four problems faced daily by persons with albinism, the blind and all the other visually impaired.  The aim was: To reduce or completely eradicate the rate of school drop out by the visually impaired and thus […]

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Expanding Bosco Uganda Internet/Intranet Network Access to the rural remote communities in northern Uganda

BOSCO-Uganda plans to provide an efficient communication infrastructure as well as access to information as one of the vital pillars for innovation, creativity, economic opportunity, peaceful coexistence, recovery and development in North-Uganda. This project enabled BOSCO Uganda to provide free internet access to the already existing free entry remote ICT youths centres. This enhanced internet […]

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eTrash2Cash

eTrash2Cash project is a mobile, city-based platform that encourages all citizens of northern Nigeria to deposit their wastes (paper, plastic, food, metal) using online and mobile application platforms, where they receive instant online points, bonuses and incentives for doing so, based on the type, quality and quantity of the wastes they deposit. These points and […]

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The 21st Century Digital Farmer

Mucho Mangoes works with rural smallholder farmers. This project empower them to mass produce better quality mangoes, then provide a ready, reliable market for their produce by buying their mangoes at a good price and selling to oversees clients at competitive prices. To equip the 21st Century rural smallholder farmer in order to optimize production, […]

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The NatiV Project

The NatiV Project is aimed at creating mother-tongue learning applications on low-cost tablets for children aged 3 to 7. The apps are also made with consideration for children with learning disabilities like dyslexia. In 2016, NatiV scaled out their objectives to not only cater for local language learning, but general foundation learning for early childhood […]

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UBONGO​ ​KIDS​ ​QUIZ​ ​APP

The​ ​main​ ​objective​ ​of​ ​the​ ​project​ ​was​ ​to​ ​develop​ ​an​ ​Ubongo​ ​Kids​ ​branded​ ​Android​ ​application for​ ​anytime,​ ​anywhere,​ ​math​ ​and​ ​STEM,​ ​and​ ​to​ ​reach​ ​more​ ​than​ ​22,000​ ​children​ ​with​ ​this application. The project reached ​the​ ​objective​ ​of​ ​creating​ ​the​ ​Ubongo​ ​Kids​ ​Quiz​ ​App​ ​(an​ ​apk​ ​file​ ​of​ ​which​ ​is provided​ ​with​ ​this​ ​report),​ ​and​ ​is​ […]

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Libre Router

Community Networks have been depending since their inception on modifying existing off-the-shelf routers to adapt them to their particular needs. Software development that originated in Community Network groups and the Free Software movement as a whole, has pushed the barrier of innovation and helped commercial enterprises develop new products over the years. This virtuous relation […]

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Democratizing Decision Support: PetaBencana.id Platform for Equitable Disaster Resilience

Powered by CogniCity Open Source Software, PetaBencana.id was a free web-based platform that produces megacity-scale visualizations of disasters using both crowd-sourced reporting and government agency validations in real-time. The platform harnessed the heightened use of social media and instant messaging during emergency events to gather confirmed situational updates from street level, in a manner that […]

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