Kenya and ICTs for development
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- Rural Kenyans’ awareness of phone-based banking services is high, but usage is low
- O.K. Kirui; J.J. Okello; R.A. Nyikal / AgEcon Search, 2010
- Smallholder farmer access to agricultural finance has been a major constraint to agricultural commercialisation in developing countries, yet ICT revolution in Africa has brought an opportunity to ease that constraint. This study asses...
- Putting public value into science and technology
- id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
- We live in a rapidly changing world. Technological advances are increasing productivity and income, quality of life and life expectancy… in the developed world, that is. The truth is that technological development is focused on...
- Being open-minded to solutions could put Africa ahead in developing model copyright laws for the 21st century
- C. Armstrong; J. de Beer; D. Kawooya; A. Prabhala; T. Schonwetter / Link Centre - Learning Information Networking Knowledge Centre, 2011
- Copyright law alone does not constitute a national copyright environment. This book presents the outputs and findings of the African Copyright and Access to Knowledge (ACA2K) research project, LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersr...
- Threats to internet freedom
- K.D. Karlekar; S.G. Cook / Freedom House, 2009
- The study evaluates the level of internet and mobile phone freedom experienced by average users and activists in a sample of 15 countries across 6 regions. It is based on a newly developed set of 19 indicators. The index ad...
- Enhancing the potential of ICTs for advancing democracy and empowerment in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda
- Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2009
- Access to and the strategic use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) have been shown to have the potential to help bring about economic development, poverty reduction, and democratisation. This report examines the pot...
- The role of mobile phones in in the scale-up of global health systems
- Richard Lester; Sarah Karanja / The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2008
- This article, published by The Lancet, argues that with mobile telephones reaching people in Africa’s cities, towns, villages, and countrysides more rapidly than anywhere else in the world, they are perhaps one of the most promi...
- The potential of mobile phones in improving global health
- The Economist, 2009
- This special report on health care and technology, published by The Economist, describes how developing countries are using mobile phones to provides personalised medicine. Drawing from experiences of various countries, the authors de...
- Have mobile phones improved animal health services in Kenya?
- J. Kithuka; J. Mutemi; A.,H. Mohamed / Farm Africa, 2007
- This paper explores the introduction of mobile phones and community pay phones within FARM-Africa's Kenya Dairy Goat and Capacity Building Project (KDGCBP), implimented in the districts of Mwingi and Kitui. The author...
- The effect of increased education on employment for Kenyan women
- Rosemary Atieno; Francis Teal / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
- Creation of wage jobs has not kept up with rapid growth in the workforce in sub-Saharan Africa. In Kenya, since the 1990s employment has become dominated by the informal sector, particularly for women. How has this affected the gender...
- The digital divide: a review of ICTs in Africa, Asia and Latin America
- R. Bissio; W. Curry; A. Esterhuysen / Global Information Society Watch, 2007
- The Global Information Society Watch 2007 report - the first in a series of annual reports- looks at state of the field of information and communication technology (ICT) policy at local and global levels and particularly how policy im...
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