http://www.iicd.org News items from IICD daily 1 2007-04-19T08:27:09Z http://www.iicd.org/articles/market-access-for-small-farmers-a-joint-effort-for-business-and-ngo The GET Foundation and IICD are joining forces. IICD supports six agricultural ICT projects in Bolivia to gain better prices for their products and to access the market of world buyers through the eFresh Portal of the GET Foundation. No publisher annemiek 2008-05-05T07:32:38Z News Item http://www.iicd.org/articles/call-for-applications-3rd-round-of-GenARDIS GenARDIS is a Small Grants Fund to address Gender Issues in Information and Communication Technologies for Agricultural and Rural Development in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP Countries). Announcing Round 3 of GenARDIS, call for applications. No publisher zope 2008-05-05T07:30:24Z News Item http://www.iicd.org/articles/test-embedding testing No publisher zope 2008-04-21T13:06:11Z News Item http://www.iicd.org/articles/enterprising-ict-for-development-in-ecuador Last April 3, 2008, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Network Infodesarrollo and IICD rewarded five initiatives of applying Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) in Ecuador. No publisher annemiek 2008-04-17T15:01:00Z News Item http://www.iicd.org/articles/the-critical-issues-affecting-the-introduction-of-health-management-information-systems-in-developing-countries-in-africa In Tanzania, Mali, Zambia and Uganda information systems are being introduced in hospitals in the form of health management information systems. But with a lack of relevant research done in these countries about the introduction of technologies like information systems there is not much to go by. Thesis by Nicole Archangel, competed in October 2007. No publisher annemiek 2008-04-21T08:08:54Z News Item http://www.iicd.org/articles/impact-iicd-health-projects Hanna Goorden of IICD analysed the Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) data that has been gathered from the IICD projects in the health sector. She reports on the satisfaction of project users with the health services they use through the project and how the project has impacted their lives. No publisher admin 2008-04-21T07:48:36Z News Item http://www.iicd.org/articles/ict-for-health-network-launched-in-tanzania-1 A network which will focus on ICT for Health - known as Afya Mtandao (Swahili for Health Network) - was officially launched on January 31st 2008 in Mwanza, Tanzania. The network unites Tanzanian health workers and promotes the use of ICT in the health sector by providing a knowledge-sharing platform for health workers, raising awareness if ICT in the health sector and providing ICT support services for health institutions. No publisher Jpowell 2008-03-20T08:47:58Z News Item http://www.iicd.org/articles/mushrooms-a-source-of-wealth-in-rural-tanzania Local journalist, Osoro Nyawangah, describes how a low-cost, small-scale project to grow mushrooms and sell them to hotels is generating vast profits for a women’s group in Magu, a remote district by Lake Victoria in Tanzania. No publisher annemiek 2008-03-20T13:48:13Z News Item http://www.iicd.org/articles/introducing-mobile-phones-to-a-farmers2019-project-in-ghana Towards the end of 2007 the ECAMIC project of the SEND foundation in Ghana started using mobiles phones to improve market access for rural farming communities. In January 2008 Shafiu Shaibu from the SEND Foundation paid a visit to the Netherlands. No publisher annemiek 2008-03-19T10:58:29Z News Item http://www.iicd.org/articles/introducing-iicds-new-managing-director-caroline-figueres “Bringing ICT is not a goal in itself. We should only use ICT when it is useful and when people are better off for having it”. Introducing Caroline Figuères, the new Managing Director of IICD. No publisher annemiek 2008-03-19T08:59:03Z News Item