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February 19, 2013
Bolivia: New homes for the poor – made using recycled bottles
A new project replacing unstable, one-room shacks with homes made using recycled plastic bottles is underway in Bolivia, with successful reviews. Empty bottles are collected and filled with sand to make bricks for new homes. These houses are better than thee shacks they replaced, and a documentary featuring these houses […]
February 19, 2013
India: UP’s ambitious urban poor housing scheme yet to take off
The state government of Uttar Pradesh has allotted a sum of US$18.5 million or INR 1 billion for housing of the urban poor under its scheme called ‘Aasra’. Under this scheme, some 4000 houses were to be built for the urban poor in the current fiscal year. However, the scheme […]
February 19, 2013
How e-learning can be spread via mobile phones in developing world
With the ubiquity of mobile phones in the developing world – where mobile phones have even replaced bicycles and such as prozed possessions in villages, the potential for learning through mobile devices is intuitively known as high, but unquantified, and hence an arena not explored by the service providers. In […]
February 19, 2013
eLearning Africa Report 2012
This is a report by eLearning Africa, an organization based in Germany. This report surveys stakeholders from 41 countries across the continent to derive key facts about eLearning, and potential expansion of the same in Africa. It was found that 71 per cent of those surveyed are now using ICT […]
February 19, 2013
‘Shaping the Future – Realising the potential of informal learning through mobile’
This news GSMA reports’s objective is to prove the merit of mobile as a tool of achieving education in emerging markets and developing countries. It follows a diverse group of young people from Ghana, Morocco, Uganda and India through their lives to discover critical information – like how just one-fourth […]
February 19, 2013
Grameen Foundation, KfW, CARE’s Access Africa Fund invest in world first completely mobile-based MFI
Based in Nairobi, Kenya, Musoni Kenya is the world’s first MFI to provide financial transactions for the poor that are completely mobile phone based. Now, Grameen Foundation, KfW and CARE’s Access Africa Fund have invested in Musoni Kenya, and this inflow of cash will help Musoni grow its operations, deepen […]
February 19, 2013
State of the Industry: Results from the 2011 Global Mobile Money Adoption Survey
As of April 2012, there were 123 that offered basic financial services to customers. But the number of customers who are actually using these services has been difficult for anyone to ascertain. This survey provides numbers as well as areas that showed highest bulk of mobile money adoption in the […]
February 19, 2013
Research Coalition to boost internet access in Africa
An international group of research organisations are collaborating on a project to boost Internet access in rural Sub-Saharan Africa. The discussions towards this end were started off by GRA (Global Research Alliance), an International organization that seeks to align the efforts of its members with those prescribed for UN’s MDGs. […]
February 19, 2013
Pakistan: USF (Universal Service Fund) to incubate ICT services throughout Baluchistan
Basic telephonic services as well as broadband services will now be provided in Mastung Lot (Mastung, Nushki and Ziarat Districts in Baluchistan) to a population of 74,831, which resides in 102 underserved areas (‘muzas’) of Baluchistan. Read more here.
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