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AI For Global Good Summit -creating an aspirational future, while 'enshrining' ethics for AI to best serve humanity and a healthy biosphere. #ict4sdg (at United Nations Office at Geneva)
Crowd-sourced real-time forest monitoring: Engaging communities to protect nature & livelihood
In the Congo Basin, ICT solutions like MappingforRights & ForestLink enable communities to map & monitor their lands & forest themselves – through low-cost, transferable technologies. Data is made available through an online interactive map; and a new solution also allows sending real-time alerts on illegal logging. Find out more via UN Momentum for Change.
A new code for girls' future in Afghanistan Launching a number of tech programmes aimed at women and girls, the Afghan government is stepping up to the task of inclusive growth, as the country envisions information and communication technologies (ICTs) to be crucial to all aspects of social and economic life in the country by 2024. More via The Economist Intelligence Unit's Perspectives.
"I'm always getting paid on time" – Cutting Dairy Farmers Losses through Mobile Innovation An innovative mobile-based software enables members of a rural Kenyan dairy cooperative to maximise their commercial potential & livelihood benefits. The system allows to accurately weigh & bill the produce, and provides access to financial services, insurance, animal health products. More about Amtech's EASYMA 6.0 system & the USAID funded Kenyan Innovation Engine here.
It’s cheap, it’s everywhere, and it’s easy to forget how powerful it really is – mobile technology. To learn more about the different ways mobile can impact development and help achieve the UN’s 2030 Agenda, check out the interactive info-graphic Mapping the Rise of Mobile Technology for Social Good, via Good.is & Qualcomm Wireless Reach.
The Impact of Bridging the Digital Divide in Rural Madagascar
More than two million Malagasy from rural communities are now reliably connected to ICT services, greatly facilitating entrepreneurship development in difficult-to-access areas. Find out more about PICOM, the World Bank-supported Communications Infrastructure Project.
Mobile app for rain forecasts raising farmers’ yields
Predicting weather in the tropics is a challenge. Through an information and communication technology (ICT) weather forecasting model, an innovative mobile phone based app produces GPS specific forecasts, helping to predict rain by 84 per cent accuracy. Its use has already helped smallholders in six Sub-Saharan African sow, improve crop yields and optimise food production at optimum time. Read more here.
At #WSIS10 #UNGA aims to narrow digital divide, harness power of info technology https://t.co/uAggTjWafP #ICT4SDG https://t.co/yrWpLCJPhS
