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COOPEUMO, a grassroots farmer’s cooperative with more than 350 small scale farmers as members provides a number of services to farmers such as technical assistance, credit and training. Last year COOPEUMO started a pilot project called DatAgro to provide SMS based information to farmers
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About 1 year ago, some colleagues from graduate school and I had the privelage to work with DataDyne for our final project for our studies. We had the opportunity to work with Dr. Joel Selanikio, the co-founder, and evaluate user adoption of DataDyne's EpiSurveyor in Kenya.
This post contributed by Ashley Metz Cummings.
Across the globe, the computers used in underfunded schools share similar characteristics. Outdated hardware grumbles to a start each morning to serve classrooms crowded with children. Slow processors and limited storage space confine the possibilities for learning computer skills and using the Internet. The students in these classrooms have never dreamt of owning their own PCs and cannot fathom the world on the other side of an Internet connection – they have enough on their minds at home.
The Chairman of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) warned a few weeks ago of a looming “spectrum shortage†in the United States. What is even more curious in this affair is the admission by senior legislators in the US that they are largely ignorant about the precise distribution of the airwaves and their uses, much less about the best means of optimizing said distribution.
The Chairman of the United States Federal Communications Commission (
