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What is the MMD4D blog?

Welcome to the MMD4D blog! This initiative is aimed at highlighting market design issues occurring in the context of efforts targeted at the introduction of ICTs to the benefit of people living in less...

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Are Women Benefiting from Moble Technology?

There is a tendency to view technology as gender neutral and very little discussion really takes place on the social, gender, cultural and organisational implications of technologies include the mobile...

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Mobile Phones in Liberia Part 1

Mobile telephony is widely used in Liberia! Just like in many other places your mobile phone number is the information about you people are interested in knowing immediately after hearing your name....

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Mobiles vs Laptops: regulatory, technological and development issues

Cory Doctorow has managed to spur a debate with a recent Guardian article (One Laptop Per Child – what went wrong?, 13 Jan 2009). That is a debate regarding the appropriateness (for development goals)...

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Mobile Use Behaviour in Liberia

During my work with ITC on Liberia, I was in touch with field contacts and I had the opportunity to discuss the state of the mobile telephony sector there, the available services and their prices. One...

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Talking about Movirtu’s MXShare

On Friday, 23 May Mr. Guy Collender  published through the Guardian, Society an opinion piece considering how mobile technology is benefiting some of the world’s poorest. Left at that, this is not a...

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Rapid Android for Collecting Market Information?

I came across an interview, prepared by Ms. Katrine Veclas from MobileActive, with Mr. Jonathan Jackson of Dimagi. The interview introduces the Rapid Android technology which offers an innovative way...

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Iranian consumers boycott Nokia for ‘collaboration’

by Saeed Kamali Dehghan Tuesday 14 July 2009 21.22 BST The mobile phone company Nokia is being hit by a growing economic boycott in Iran as consumers sympathetic to the post-election protest movement...

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The Cloud, the Crowd and Public Policy in ICT4D

In the recent article “ The Cloud, the Crowd, and Public Policy“, published in the Summer 2009 volume of Issues in Science and Technology, Mr. Michael Nelson overviews the concept of the Cloud and its...

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Developing, Deploying and Accessing ICT services on Mobile Phones

Presentation by Stéphane BoyeraWorld Wide Web Foundationation. Unfortunately, Stéphane was not able to attend the CTA ICT Observatory in Wageningen but Kevin Painting did his presentation. The content...

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