Friday, July 27, 2007
Making Kenya the ICT Hub of Africa
"Digital Village Enterprises
Digital Villages are ICT facilities established to take ICT to the rural areas for economic and social development. They will provide a suite of e-services to the public via computers connected to the internet, digital cameras, printers fax machines and other communication infrastructure. There will be three types of Digital Village facilities:
Digital Schools – educational ICT facility with minimum of 5 to 10 PCs established and managed by primary and secondary schools with support from KTCIP, constituency development funds (CDF), and other public and private sector organizations. Minimum – one in each location.
Digital Kiosks – commercial ICT facility with minimum 1 to 5 PCs established and managed by entrepreneurs either individually or groups with support from KTCIP, youth and women development funds, microfinance institutions, and other investors. Minimum – one in each constituency.
Digital Centres – development ICT facility with minimum 10 to 20 PCs established and managed by community based organizations (CBOs), faith based organizations (FBOs), co-operatives, public and private sector organizations with support from KTCIP and development partners. Minimum – one in each district."
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Posted by josh_u at 7/27/2007 11:01:00 AM 1 comments
Thursday, March 01, 2007
EduVision E-Learning System
"The EduVision E-Learning System (EELS) is an end-to end content management system that can efficiently distribute educational material in real-time to anywhere on the African continent....
...Pupils will access the material via a simplified tablet computer, or eSlate, which will be wirelessly connected to their school’s BaseStation, a unit that downloads content from satellite radio."
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Posted by josh_u at 3/01/2007 09:56:00 AM 0 comments
Friday, November 03, 2006
DrumNet
DrumNet, "a project of PRIDE AFRICA, was launched in late 2002 to deliver a set of critical business support services directly to the African smallholder farmers. It is designed as marketing, financial and information services for mainstreaming resource-poor farmers. It combines information, commodity transaction services and financial linkages into a single business service model that provides access to markets, market information and credit for the rural poor to support sustainable agriculture and rural development. "
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Posted by josh_u at 11/03/2006 11:27:00 AM 0 comments
CAB International
CABI - "Our mission is to improve people’s lives worldwide by providing information and applying scientific expertise to solve problems in agriculture and the environment. CABI-Africa Regional Centre (Nairobi) focuses its activities on six themes that impact on the livelihoods of the rural poor in Africa.
- Rural knowledge systems
- Smallholder commodity chains
- Sustainable pest management
- Alien invasive species
- Conservation and utilisation of biodiversity
- Information and communication technologies"
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Posted by josh_u at 11/03/2006 11:24:00 AM 0 comments
Kenyan Agriculture Commodity Exchange
Kenya Agricultural Commodity Exchange (KACE)
"The KACE website, www.kacekenya.com, has been developed to serve as a virtual library of agricultural information and also as a virtual trading floor or platform for commodities.
Virtual library
The content is developed to include information on major farmers' organizations and their commodity interests, input suppliers, commodity traders / brokers, other marketing services (e.g. storage, transport, credit) providers, trade policies and tariffs, export quality requirements for different markets, etc. The content is continuously reviewed, updated and expanded to keep it most current and relevant.
Virtual trading floor
This is an electronic trading platform developed to enable clients to place commodity offers to sell and bids to buy. KACE IT staff facilitate trade transactions between client sellers and buyers in an e-commerce fashion.
Through RECOTIS and the website, KACE clients are linked into Kenyan, regional (Eastern Africa) and international markets, enabling them to transact export and import trade most efficiently."
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Posted by josh_u at 11/03/2006 11:15:00 AM 0 comments