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Recent Developments, <br /> Key Innovations, and <br /> Insightful Reports

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Insightful Reports

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Increasing telecomm access for 200,000 underserved Nicaraguans

The World Bank and the Government of Nicaragua recently signed an agreement to provide US$ 5 million in additional financing for the Rural Telecommunications Project which aims to extend access to telecommunications services to more than 200,000 rural inhabitants of Nicaragua. Read more here.

August 6, 2012

China: Mobile overtakes desktop for internet usage in rural China

According to a recent report, mobile phones are now the most common way for people to connect to the internet in China. The report from the China Internet Network Information Center (CINIC) said over 50 per cent of the year’s new internet users (mostly on mobiles) were from rural areas. A […]

August 6, 2012

India: Baben redefines what development should be for rural India

Baben, located just 7 km off Bardoli town in Gujarat boasts of more than 50 per cent of the 2,500 homes of the village have internet connections. The panchayat, too, is reflective of the progressive population and of the 19 members nine are graduates including the sarpanch. Read more here.

August 6, 2012

Mobile phones to improve rural Africa water supply

To fix the disrupted water supply scenario in rural Africa, a scientific team from University of Oxford in the UK will now be replacing traditional water pumps with handpumps that feature mobile phones – everytime the pump suffers mechanical failure, water engineers will be automatically notified. Read more here.

August 6, 2012

India: Mobile penetration low in India, but India high on innovation

According to a new report by World Bank, India has 70 mobile subscriptions per 100 people. The developing world is more “mobile” than the developed, having leapfrogged over some communication devices to go straight to mobiles and creating innovations like multiple-SIM phones and mobile payments. Indian penetration, according to the report is low, […]

August 6, 2012

Information and Communications for Development 2012 – Maximising Mobile

This report by the World Bank says that about three-quarters of planet’s population now has access to a mobile phone. The importance of its usage is not so much about the phone, but how it is used. Read more here, and read the report here.

August 3, 2012

Burkina Faso: Learning how to counter malnutrition locally and naturally in the face of food insecurity and drought

One of the biggest threats to world development is the prevalence of malnutrition, especially in children, in the developing world. It is what causes physical and mental debilitation in generations upon generations of the countries’ future workforce. One of the reasons for persistent malnutrition is that the perceived cost of […]

August 2, 2012

Indonesia to cooperate with Australian investors on raising cattle

Indonesian State-Owned Enterprises announced that the Indonesian government are prepared to be fully supportive of any kind of investment in cattle farms in Indonesia made by Australian investors. For cattle farming, the government would be preparing the East Nusa Tenggara province and Papua province. Read more here.

August 2, 2012

India: Karnataka to remove middle men from horticulture market ecosystem

The department of horticulture of the state of Karnataka has implemented the Comprehensive Horticulture Development Plan in the district of Mysore, which is hoped to encourage growth of the fruit and vegetable sector in the region. The new associations of farmers would be provided technical assistance and would also have increased […]