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ICT on the Agenda for AfDB Presidential Candidate

April 30, 2015 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in Employment and entrepreneurship, ICT infrastructure, Remote/underserved areas, Women and girls, Youth and children

Akinwumi Adesina, Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development has made great strides for the country’s agricultural sector. His successes include solving corruption in the fertilizer industry and encouraging banks to lend to farmers. In 2012, he pioneered an e-wallet…

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Pygmies Use ICT for Cultural and Ecological Preservation

April 30, 2015 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in Digital Literacy, Indigenous peoples

Various organizations used ICT to help the Pygmies in the Democratic Republic of Congo preserve culture and ecosystem as part of the Moabi Project. The Moabi Project, developed by the WWF and the OSFAC is a participatory online mapping system….

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UN Seeks Young Climate Change Speaker for UN General Assembly

April 30, 2015 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in Employment and entrepreneurship, Youth and children

The United Nations seeks a young entrepreneur from a developing country to speak at the UN High-Level Event on Climate Change on June 29. This event is meant as a precursor to the Paris conference in December, where parties will…

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Partnership Promotes Women’s Empowerment

April 30, 2015 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in Digital Literacy, Employment and entrepreneurship, Remote/underserved areas, Women and girls

The World Bank seeks to empower women and generate employment and entrepreneurial opportunities through ICTs in Sri Lanka. They sponsored the Innovation for Impact training workshop for civil society organizations in Colombo, together with Sarvodaya-Fusion, an NGO focused on e-empowerment…

Digital Inclusion for Growth and Development in the UAE

April 30, 2015 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in Persons with disabilities

The General Authority for Regulating the Telecommunications Sector (TRA) considers digital inclusion for persons with disabilities an integral part of both equality and development in the country. To ensure access to ICTs for the entire population, licensees in the state…

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Digital Inclusion for Persons with Disabilities in Zambia

April 30, 2015 · by ITU Digital Inclusion Division · in Persons with disabilities, Uncategorized

The Zambia Information Communication Technology (ZICTA) promotes the inclusion of persons with disabilities in ICT in a variety of ways. First, the ICT code of conduct for Service Providers and Consumer Protection Guidelines includes article 9 of the Convention on…

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