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Kids text all the time – at school, on the bus, even when you’re trying to talk to them. It can be annoying. But imagine if a child couldn’t communicate at all – that’s when a mobile can become a lifeline. In some developing countries, children who are deaf don’t have access to special education, technology or even sign language teaching. In this edition of “Mobile Message”, Cambridge to Africa’s Sacha DeVelle, explains how her organisation has been using mobile phones in specially designed education programmes to help deaf children in Uganda communicate. By getting everyone in their schools to help out, the projects also happen to be making them the coolest kids in school. Mobile Message is a series of blog posts from FrontlineSMS about how mobile phones are being used throughout the world to improve, enrich, and empower billions of lives. This article was curated by Olivia O’Sullivan, our Media and Research Assistant. |
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February 28, 2012, New Delhi, India The ICT4Democracy in East Africa Network, which brings together various partners in the region – among them CIPESA will hold a stakeholder workshop on mobile phone enabled democracy at the 3rd International Conference on Mobile Communication for Development(M4D2012). The workshop will showcase innovatice cases from East Africa. Organisations and inidividuals interested in the role of mobile phones in democracy are invited to attend the workshop. Further details are available here.
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The Pivot East Team invite you to an Outreach Workshop to be held at Makerere University Computer Science Block B on Monday 20th February. There will be sessions on Businnes Training and IP and Copyrights. This Workshop will give a big insight for the Pivot East App development competitions where the winners who will be selected will pitch in Nairobi, Kenya.
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The implementation of a District Health Management Information System (D-HMIS) aims to improve the ability to collect, store and analyse accurate health data. Implementation of D-HMIS also aims to increase data accuracy and effectiveness of intervention, increase accountability, and improve tracking of health trends in the district. Information on patient registrations, diagnoses, treatments, lab tests, billing and pharmacy records are being digitalised. The D-HMIS is rolled out in eight hospitals and four offices of the City Medical Officer and the faith based organisations. The project includes Information and Communications Technology (ICT) training and change management both at facility and district level.
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There will still be a digital divide in 2030 and that’s why ICT for development and IICD will continue to be relevant, says IICD’s Managing Director Caroline Figuères in her new year’s speech. But she also foresees changes:“IICD might be an African organisation supporting ICT for development in Europe in 2030.” During her new year’s speech, IICD's managing director Caroline Figuères reflected on 2011, but mainly looked at the future. Figuères:”In 2011, IICD set the stage to build for the future. There will still be a need for our work. 15 years from now, there will still be a digital gap to be filled. Maybe not the one we know now but there will still be digital inequality. And in 30 years time it could be that IICD HQ in Nairobi will send Kenya and Ghanaian ICT experts to Europe to help.”
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