Thursday | 20 Jun 2013
Welcome to Digital Opportunity, the ‘all about ICT for Development’ channel, brought to you by OneWorld South Asia that informs on digital inclusion, showcases best practices in the sector and provides space for sharing and collaboration amongst ICT for D practitioners.
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NEWS
19-06-2013 Digital talking books was a daunting task for the project team, the partner schools, and therapy centers as well as the teachers of the learning sessions, writes Ranil Sorongon, Executive Director of Autism Society Philippines.
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COMMENTS
07-06-2013 Women are increasingly turning to technology to tackle complex situations, said UN Secretary-General’s Youth Envoy, Ahmad Alhendawi.
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SPOTLIGHT
Using ICTs to hunt better markets for apple farmers
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15-05-2013 Shri Jagdamba Samiti (SJS), a Rishikesh based NGO, is engaged in the task of empowering small apple farmers in the North Indian states of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh, by enabling farmers to move up the economic chain. Vikram Singh, Senior Executive, ICT and Value Chain, at SJS, in an interview to OneWorld South Asia, said that ICTs could be an effective tool for imparting farm related inputs to farmers to make the reap a quality harvest. Excerpts from the interview. more...
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02-04-2013 This booklet, published by the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP)-European Union (EU), features 20 young people and three organisations that have been involved in the CTA youth project called ARDYIS (Agriculture Rural Development and Youth in the Information Society).
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EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
» Online climate conference
Online,  November 5, 2012.
» Open Knowledge Festival 2012
Helsinki, Finland,  September 17,2012.
» ITU Green Standards Week
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