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L’aspetto più interessante di Plain Ink, un’associazione che si occupa di temi come alfabetizzazione e istruzione in India e Afghanista, è il marketplace, dove attraverso un meccanismo di crowdsourcing, ogni socio può collaborare inviando le propria idea. Questa passerà al vaglio di Plain Ink che ne considererà l’eventuale realizzazione e i progetti più promettenti potranno essere votati dagli altri soci.

Il progetto più votato diventerà il “Progetto del Mese” a cui verranno destinati tutti i fondi raccolti in quel periodo. Il voto sarà aperto sul sito a partire da Giugno.

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Progettazione di strumenti di comunicazione sostenibili per l’educazione: il caso dell’Università di S.Spiritus a Cuba.
Tesi di laurea magistrale in Teoria e tecnologia della comunicazione, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, conclusa nel febbraio 2011.

Il progetto riguarda l’analisi e la realizzazione prototipale del sito Web della Facoltà di Ingegneria dell’Università di S.Spiritus a Cuba. E’ stata realizzata anche con un soggiorno di circa 3 mesi a Cuba, nell’ambito del programma Exchange di collaborazione fra l’Università di S.Spiritus e l’Università di Milano Bicocca.

Il lavoro di tesi è stato svolto congiuntamente al lavoro di tesi di Greta Liguori (vedi).

Leggi la tesi completa o guarda la presentazione:

A note by Richard Heeks on ict4dblog. He looks at ICT4D term on the Web and in the news, and draws some conclusions.

A summary of statistics on mobile broadband internet by Richard Heeks, in the ict4dblog:

ICT4D.at is an Austrian based NGO contributing to the international ICT4D movement. These are the RSS feeds from its blog.

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ICT4DBlog talks about the relation between information and communication technologies and socio-economic development.  Its contributors all have a connection with the University of Manchester’s Centre for Development Informatics, through work and/or study. These are the latest RSS feeds:

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WeFeedback is a site that asks visitors to donate the value of their favorite meal to combat world hunger.

Launched last month, WeFeedback — an initiative of the World Food Programme — estimates that hunger affects nearly a billion people worldwide. To combat the issue, visitors to the site are asked to enter their favorite meal, and the price they would usually pay for that meal, into the food calculator. The calculator then tells the user how many meals could be bought for hungry children for the same cost. If the visitor selected a steak and chips as their favorite dish, for example, and estimated the average value of that meal to be USD 23, they would be told that a donation of that value could feed ninety-two children. Visitors can also select how many servings they would like to donate the equivalent of. By clicking to donate, visitors can set up a Feedback account and enter their card details to complete the payment. The process does not end there, however. Donors are then asked to share the details of their Feedback transaction through their social networks, along with invitations for their friends to do the same. On the visitors Feedback profile, they are then able to see how many children they have fed, and how many people their online network has fed in total. They are also able to collect badges for adding social networks to their account and donating. A Facebook app is already available, and apps for iPhone and Windows Phone 7 are coming soon.

In the sites own words, “It takes just 25 cents to feed a child a nutritious meal at school – USD 50 could feed that child for a whole year”. The stark comparison to a user’s own consumption offers a powerful incentive for donation. And with a built in social networking aspect to help spread the world, initiatives such as these could one day become the norm for charities and non-profits everywhere.

Sparked.com is an interesting microvolunteering network. It connectes volunteers with over 2,000 nonprofits that need design, branding, and copy writing help. These nonprofits actually use the work — which ends up in newspapers, websites, etc. If I was a student, I’d most definitely appreciate such exposure. Students can develop their portfolio, and yes, of course, it’s not the same as paid work, but it’s for worthy causes.

Sparked.com, is designed specifically to do good and serve the community. They’re funded by the United Nations WYSA and the Knight Foundation. Interesting!

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“The latest edition of Measuring the Information Society features the new ITU (International Telecommunication Union) ICT Development Index (IDI) and the ICT Price Basket – two benchmarking tools to measure the Information Society. The IDI captures the level of advancement of ICTs in 159 countries worldwide and compares progress made between 2002 and 2008. It also measures the global digital divide and examines how it has developed in recent years. The report also features the latest ICT Price Basket, which combines 2009 fixed telephone, mobile cellular and fixed broadband tariffs for 161 economies into one measure and compares these across countries, and over time. The analytical report is complemented by a series of statistical tables providing country-level data for all indicators included in the Index.”

The report can be downloaded from the ITU site, here: http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/publications/idi/2010/index.html