All Blog Posts Tagged 'development' (4)

GKPF Welcomes 4G As the "New Kid on the Block" for Advancing Mobile for Development

GKPF has proposed “Mobile 4G Deployment, The Sterling Opportunity for ICT4D” to be included in one of the technical workshops at the upcoming WSIS Forum 2013. 4G mobile technologies have been implemented by several countries, but unfortunately have not been widely considered as tools for social development and social inclusion in the…

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Added by Sasha Gayatri on December 6, 2012 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Busan Partnership for effective development co-operation

ref: from Publish What you fund

"The Busan Outcome Document, or ‘Busan Partnership for effective development co-operation’ agreed on 1^st December 2011, has resulted in three important…

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Added by Michael Roberts on January 17, 2012 at 4:25pm — No Comments

US announce their commitment to aid transparency initiative (IATI)

"US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announces that the US has joined the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI).

Following similar announcements by …

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Added by Michael Roberts on January 14, 2012 at 7:30am — No Comments

David Damberger: What happens when an NGO admits failure

From TEDx - "

International aid groups make the same mistakes over and over again. At TEDxYYC David Damberger uses his own engineering failure in India to call for the development sector to publicly admit, analyze, and learn from their missteps."…

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Added by Michael Roberts on January 2, 2012 at 8:09pm — No Comments