http://www.iicd.org News about Country Programmes daily 1 2007-06-08T01:33:14Z http://www.iicd.org/articles/global-teenager-zambia-launches-new-website The website www.globalteenager-zm.org is an educational tool for participating students and teachers, offering links to various learning and teaching resources. Launched in August, the site offers useful information such as student and teacher resource packets, news, programme information and links to our partner organisations. No publisher annemiek 2007-10-15T15:01:33Z News Item http://www.iicd.org/articles/first-linux-professional-institute-certification-in-africa In a development that confirms the increasing importance of Open Source Software in Africa, the Linux Professional Institute (LPI) has just announced news of two affiliate deals in East and Central Africa. Representation in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania will come from the East African Centre for Open Source Software (EACOSS) - a joint venture, initiated by IICD, the Martyrs University and Linux Solutions Ltd, which began in 2004. No publisher annemiek 2007-12-18T09:01:51Z News Item http://www.iicd.org/articles/outcome-of-the-first-focus-group-meeting-in-burkina-faso This is a summary of the first evaluation report of IICD’s Country Programme in Burkina Faso. No publisher admin IConnect 2007-06-25T14:40:02Z News Item http://www.iicd.org/articles/a-problem-shared-is-a-problem-halved-knowledge-sharing-between-rural-telecentres-in-burkina-faso Many community telecentres in Burkina Faso have similar problems: poor Internet connectivity; frequent power-cuts, a lack of locally relevant content, and no access to outside technical support because of their remote location. These problems are further aggravated by the huge discrepancies in technical skills among the different telecentre managers. So why not meet up regularly through a single online platform to share experiences, technical know-how and resources? No publisher AnnaGerrard 2007-06-28T14:19:40Z News Item http://www.iicd.org/articles/innovation-in-governance-west-africa-leads-the-way A group of policymakers from Burkina Faso, Benin, Mali and Niger recently demonstrated in a pioneering six-day workshop on ‘Strategic Planning and Developing ICT Policy’ that innovation in governance is not the exclusive preserve of Western countries. The workshop is part of a wider pilot project to help African policymakers systematically plan and develop ICT policy implementation processes with the help of two information management tools often used by the private sector in the West: the Balanced Scorecard and COBIT (the Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology). No publisher AnnaGerrard 2007-06-28T17:33:53Z News Item http://www.iicd.org/articles/gaining-credit-with-ict-in-rural-ecuador In the Chimboraza and Tungurahua provinces of Ecuador, over 33 local financing bodies - or Estructuras Financieras Locales (EFLs) as they are known locally - currently serve around 30,000 small and medium-sized enterprises. To help these EFLs improve their services and become more efficient, IICD worked with three local organisations - the Fundación SEDAL, the cooperative Acción Rural and the Red Financiera Rural – to set up the SERVIR Regional Credit Evaluation Service. The goal is to boost the region’s economy by increasing the efficiency of the EFLs on the one hand while reducing the amount of debt incurred by individual smallholders on the other. No publisher AnnaGerrard 2007-06-28T15:42:30Z News Item http://www.iicd.org/articles/viability-and-sustainability-of-a-satellite-solution-for-ghana A Community Broadband Report on the investigation into the viability and sustainability of a shared satellite solution for IICD’s partner SEND Foundation at their Salaga office in the East Gonja district of Northern Ghana. No publisher annemiek 2007-08-16T09:23:11Z News Item http://www.iicd.org/articles/access-to-markets-in-ghana-evaluation-report-of-the-workshops This report discusses the Life Long Learning (LLL) workshop and Roundtable conference as well as the outcome of the Focus Group Meeting held in Tamale for participants of the LLL and the Roundtable workshops. No publisher admin 2007-11-19T08:47:25Z News Item http://www.iicd.org/articles/icts-for-education This impact study is part of a series of publications on the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in various sectors in developing countries. It describes the experiences, achievements and lessons learned of the International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) and its partners in using ICT to enhance education through thirty-two projects and ICT policy processes over eight years in Jamaica, Bolivia, Zambia, Burkina Faso, Mali, Ghana, Tanzania and Uganda. No publisher admin 2007-12-07T11:51:50Z News Item http://www.iicd.org/articles/logon4d/supporting-ghanaian-farmers-in-the-eastern-corridor In 2003, the Eastern Corridor Agro-Information Centre (ECAMIC) project began supporting farmers in Ghana’s Eastern Corridor by setting up cooperative farmer groups. In 2005, the Social Enterprise Foundation of West Africa (SEND), which began the project, signed an agreement with IICD, in collaboration with Cordaid, for a two-year project to develop a market information facility to serve 24 community-based farming cooperatives. Today, the project is focussing on developing the capacity and efficiency of the farmers through the deployment and use of mobile phones. No publisher annemiek 2007-12-17T13:30:14Z News Item http://www.iicd.org/articles/ict-successes-shared-with-government-leaders-in-mwanza-tanzania How can ICT increase farmers’ income? How can GIS help a municipality to collect taxes? How can a Health Management Information System (HMIS) improve health facilities? These are just a few of the questions that were addressed during an ICT Awareness Workshop for local government officials in Mwanza, Tanzania, in June 2007. No publisher annemiek 2007-12-18T08:38:06Z News Item http://www.iicd.org/articles/better-integration-of-ict-in-secondary-education-in-burkina-faso In April a workshop on “Information and Communication Technology for Secondary Education in Burkina Faso” was held in Ouagadougou to validate the project document on programmes for integration of ICT in secondary education. The workshop was attended by various stakeholders in the Burkina education system: teachers, inspectors and headteachers; the regional directors for Ouagadougou, Bobo Dioulasso, Tenkodogo and Ouahigouya; representatives of the Ministry for the Post Office and ICT; and representatives from the technical partner, the International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD). No publisher admin 2007-06-25T15:52:15Z News Item http://www.iicd.org/articles/ndere-supports-arrin-in-empowering-farmers Drama and dance make people change, an article written by Edith Tulp and Arjan de Jager. No publisher AnnaGerrard 2007-10-02T14:25:14Z News Item http://www.iicd.org/articles/improving-the-flow-of-information-in-tanzania2019s-hospitals Ensuring an equitable and robust health system which is responsive to local needs in Tanzania is the aim of the Hospital Information Management Software AfyaPro. Afya means ‘health’ in Kiswahili, a strong indicator of its local roots, was developed 5 years ago with the assistance of IICD in order to better manage the flow of information and patient health care. No publisher AnnaGerrard 2007-07-02T10:25:58Z News Item http://www.iicd.org/articles/introducing-ict-into-tanzania2019s-education-sector-some-lessons-learned Online training modules for Teacher Training Colleges, photocopies and print-outs of text books for schools in remote areas, chat rooms and online debates in key-Swahili for secondary school students: these are just some of the many ways in which ICT is being used in Tanzania to enhance the education sector across the board. With the full support of the Ministry of Education, IICD and its local partners have worked steadfastly for the last nine years in Tanzania to find innovative, cost-effective ways in which ICT can have a sustainable, far-reaching impact on the education sector. Some useful lessons have been learned along the way. No publisher AnnaGerrard 2007-06-28T15:09:53Z News Item