Talk: Free ICT to Deprived Communities in Africa

Decentralising Society
Day
Sunday 11th of November, 2012
Start
12:00
End
12:45
Duration
0:45:00
Room
Room 2
Accessibility
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by Musah Umar

The talk will focus on bringing ICT to the door steps of the many poor rural folks. It will focus on tested ways of making it free as acquisition and access has become the bain of millions within the africa region.

I will tap into how we are experimenting with hosted systems that can take mulitple users at no cost to them.

The core of the talk is on creativity tailored at the social good of many who otherwise would have been left without any opportunity to make good use of expensive applications and systems which can help solve their immediate problems.

Such include mobile apps for farmers, information on weather forecast, transportation, fertiliser stores and farm machinery hiring services.

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