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Traditional water mill technology helps boost livelihoods

Posted in ICT for Development on July 6, 2007 | No Comments »

Sitting in a tiny water mill, popularly known as a ‘ghatta’ in Nepalese, 65-year-old farmer Ram Sharma waits for his customers to come with their wheat and maize to grind flour for a small fee. Sharma built his ‘ghatta’ two years ago after he lost all his farmland and property in flash floods that devastated [...]

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Digital Photo Studio in School telecentre in Bangladesh

Posted in ICT for Development on July 5, 2007 | 6 Comments »

Author: Nazrul Islam of Relief International, Bangladesh
Let me share a story about how a school based telecenter in a Bangladeshi village has recently turned to a digital photo studio. Relief International -School Online set up an Internet enabled telecenter in Chowra Girls High School in Chowra Village in Comilla district in early 2005 as part [...]

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$100 magic wand seeks to change Nepal kids’ lives

Posted in ICT for Development on July 3, 2007 | 3 Comments »

A magic more enchanting than any of the Harry Potter tales will sweep through Nepal soon, thanks to a pair of students who are working to take $100 laptops to children in the country’s remotest and most underdeveloped villages, where there is no electricity or even books.
The “magic pencil” that will write such plots is [...]

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Village Phone Lady passing happy life

Posted in ICT for Development, Knowledge for Development, Rural Women on June 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Mukhara, Bangladesh: I have an intention to visit villages to find out the rural development. As part of this, few weeks ago I have visited a rural hinterland village named Mukhara to see the present state of Helena.
Helena? You may ask me question that, who is she? Well, Helena is a Village Phone Lady who [...]

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Computer centre and library in rural Medavakkam school, Tambaram

Posted in ICT for Development on June 26, 2007 | No Comments »

Tambaram, India: A full-fledged computer centre and a well-equipped library are the latest additions at the Government High School in Medavakkam near Tambaram. The computer centre with 10 monitors and the library were dedicated on Thursday by representatives of Cooperative Financial Services (CFS) and Information Technology company Xansa, both based in United Kingdom.Jim Slack, Director, [...]

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Postal offices will be developed as Rural Information Centers

Posted in ICT for Development on June 21, 2007 | 2 Comments »

KATHMANDU, June 20: Nepal Government spokesperson and Minister for Information and Communications Krishna Bahadur Mahara has lauded the role of the postal service in the field of communication and said that the government was planning to develop the post offices in the rural areas as information centers at the grass roots level.
Inaugurating a two-day seminar [...]

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Telemedicine at the Kurunegala Teaching Hospital, Sri lanka

Posted in ICT for Development on June 19, 2007 | No Comments »

Sri Lanka, June 19, 2007: The Information and Communication Technology Agency’s Nenasala Project entered new ground when it opened its first Hospital Nenasala at the Kurunegala Teaching Hospital on the 11th of June 2007 under the patronage of the Hon. Minister of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention and Kurunegala District MP. Mr. Jayarathna Herath. This [...]

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