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held in Maputo, Mozambique on 1-2 April 2009. This workshop was organized by the W3C Mobile Web for Social Development Interest Group, part of the EU FP7 project Digital World Forum. During the two day event, the 70+ participants held discussions regarding the potential of mobile technologies in the development sector. The key outcomes that are expanded in this document can be summarized here

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Posted by Kevin Walker at 7/25/2009 12:33:00 PM 0 comments

Report on first 'skunkworks' meeting hosted by Google in Nairobi including some
information on Google's work to map Kenya, work with Safaricom etc...

http://bankelele.blogspot.com/2008/03/skunkworks-nairobi-march-4.html

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Posted by Kevin Walker at 3/07/2008 09:19:00 PM 0 comments

Workshop in Conjunction with the Ninth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2007)

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Posted by Kevin Walker at 9/18/2007 01:47:00 PM 0 comments

Matt Jones from VeSeL partner project StoryBank will be the invited speaker at this workshop in Singapore, September 9, 2007, part of ACM Mobile HCI 07.

Traditionally, voice-based applications have been accessed using unintelligent telephone devices through Voice Browsers that reside on the server. The proliferation of pervasive devices and the increase in their processing capabilities, client-side speech processing is emerging as a viable alternative. As in SiMPE 2006, we will further explore the various possibilities and issues that arise while enabling speech processing on resource-constrained, possibly mobile devices.

In particular, this year's theme will be SiMPE for developing regions.

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Posted by Kevin Walker at 8/12/2007 02:16:00 PM 0 comments

Interesting article on the recent TED conference in Tanzania. Normally stands for 'technology, entertainment, design' but in this case should be 'technology, education, development' or similar.

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Posted by Kevin Walker at 6/21/2007 11:47:00 AM 1 comments

IST-Africa 2007 conference Advance Programme available

Framework Programme 7 Workshops - IST-Africa in collaboration with HAGRID is organising three FP7 Workshops in Tanzania (02 March), Mozambique (05 March) and Botswana (09 March) in relation to FP7-ICT-2007-1 - ICT Call 1, which closes on 08 May 2007.

More information

RELATED EVENTS
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2nd EuroAfrica-ICT Concertation Meeting 8 March 2007, Brussels, Belgium
http://www.euroafrica-ict.org/concertation.html

Europe – Africa Synergies on ICT - Strengthening Collaborative Networks 9 March 2007, http://www.hisp.info/confluence/display/BEANISH/BEANISH+workshop

EuroAfrica-ICT Awareness Workshops
21-22 March 2007, Dakar, Senegal
28 - 29 March 2007, Pretoria, South Africa
http://www.euroafrica-ict.org/awareness_workshops.html

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Posted by josh_u at 2/21/2007 02:47:00 PM 0 comments

E-Learning Africa
28-30 May, Nairobi

IST Africa
9-11 May, Maputo, Mozambique

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Posted by Kevin Walker at 2/09/2007 12:07:00 PM 0 comments