VIDEOS
Introduction to AudienceScapes
An introduction to the AudienceScapes project. An interactive web tool (www.audiencescapes.org ) for all members of the global development community seeking better ways to communicate with local stakeholders. With the AudienceScapes channel we are seeking to highlight interesting and educational videos that will contribute to international development dialogue.
Rural Radio in Africa
Over the past ten years, radio has become an important communication medium in Africa. Several new projects are now being implemented to test its utility for supporting agricultural development and improving rural livelihood in Africa. The video is a co-production between People TV and the CTA (Technical Center for agricultural cooperation ACP-EU).
M-PESA Customer Interview - gsmworld.com/mmublog
Featured here is an impromptu interview with a cab driver who regularly uses the M-PESA mobile banking service.
Doing Business In Africa - Rwanda Part 1 - Rebuilding Rwanda
Everywhere you go in Kigali, Rwandas capital city, youll hear the sound of construction. Thats because people are building houses, offices, hotels, roads, and laying fibre optic cables. While the world economy slows down, one of Rwandas biggest challenge is how to manage the growing demand for property.
Doing Business In Africa - Rwanda Part 2 - ICT for Development
One of the biggest ways Rwanda plans to meet its development goals is through telecommunications. And already global players are establishing themselves.
Towards 2020: ICT in Action in Rwanda (FRENCH)
World Bank - Featuring an interview with Rwanda's President Paul Kagame, this film illustrates how ICT serves as a cross-cutting enabler in helping Rwanda to achieve the 6 Pillars of its Vision 202use investment in ICT as the key driver for this transition and as a vehicle for improving the delivery of public and private services, particularly in the rural areas. The World Bank's eRwanda project emphasizes the use of technology as an enabler to growth and development, and focuses on core activities, applications and content which have the g0, and how the World Bank's eRwanda project is contributing to the process. In its Vision 2020 plan, the Government of Rwanda aims to transform the country from a largely agriculture-based economy to a knowledge and information based economy, in an effort to reach middle income status by 2020. The Government has emphasized its intention to reatest impact for the citizens. The project aims to improve efficiency and effectiveness of some internal processes of the Government of Rwanda, as well as the delivery of social services in selected key sectors.
The World Bank - Towards 2020: ICT in Action in Rwanda
Featuring an interview with Rwanda's President Paul Kagame, this film illustrates how ICT serves as a cross-cutting enabler in helping Rwanda to achieve the 6 Pillars of its Vision 2020, and how the World Bank's eRwanda project is contributing to the process. In its Vision 2020 plan, the Government of Rwanda aims to transform the country from a largely agriculture-based economy to a knowledge and information based economy, in an effort to reach middle income status by 2020. The Government has emphasized its intention to use investment in ICT as the key driver for this transition and as a vehicle for improving the delivery of public and private services, particularly in the rural areas. The World Bank's eRwanda project emphasizes the use of technology as an enabler to growth and development, and focuses on core activities, applications and content which have the greatest impact for the citizens. The project aims to improve efficiency and effectiveness of some internal processes of the Government of Rwanda, as well as the delivery of social services in selected key sectors. http://www.worldbank.org/connectingafrica
eGov at Work: Improving Service Delivery in Ghana
Through the eGhana project, the World Bank is supporting public-private partnerships to improve efficiency and transparency through selected e-Government applications. The eGhana project builds on the Government's earlier experience with a customs modernization programme which drastically reduced customs processing time and increased government revenue by close to 50 percent within the first 18 months of implementation. http://www.worldbank.org/connectingafrica
M-PESA documentary
Documentary showing how Safaricom's M-PESA Mobile Money Transfer service is changing lives in Kenya.
Kenya's mobile revolution - part 1
In the first of Newsnight's Geek Week 2.0 reports, Paul Mason journeys across Kenya to look at how the mobile phone is revolutionising life for rich and poor Kenyans.
Kenya's mobile revolution - part 2
In the first of Newsnight's Geek Week 2.0 reports, Paul Mason journeys across Kenya to look at how the mobile phone is revolutionising life for rich and poor Kenyans.
World Bank - Borderless Communication: An African Innovation
Far from being a follower, Africa is setting industry benchmarks in cellular innovation and technology. One example of this is Celtel's world's first borderless network, which allows its cellular subscribers to make calls across 6 countries in Africa without roaming fees. With a long-standing relationship dating back to 1999, IFC has made a series of investments totaling US$417 million in Celtel operations in 14 countries of which, US$131 million in syndications under the IFC B loan program. IFC's support of Celtel in its development from a small start-up company into the large corporate entity it is today, is a reflection of IFC's commitment to a true partnership with its clients. http://www.worldbank.org/connectingafrica
Iqbal Quadir: The power of the mobile phone to end poverty
http://www.ted.com Iqbal Quadir tells how his experiences as a kid in poor Bangladesh, and later as a banker in New York, led him to start a mobile phone operator connecting 80 million rural Bangladeshi -- and to become a champion of bottom-up development. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10
Clay Shirky: How cellphones, Twitter, Facebook can make history
http://www.ted.com While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate. Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10
Jan Chipchase: Our cell phones, ourselves
http://www.ted.com Nokia researcher Jan Chipchase's investigation into the ways we interact with technology has led him from the villages of Uganda to the insides of our pockets. Along the way, he's made some unexpected discoveries: about the novel ways illiterate people interface with their cellphones, or the role the cellphone can sometimes play in commerce, or the deep emotional bonds we all seem to share with our phones. And watch for his surefire trick to keep you from misplacing your keys.
Pedal Powered Mobile Call Shop - Nicaragua
In Nicaragua people make national and international phone calls every day in call shops using their cell phones as address books instead of cell phones, although this may seem inconvenient to some the savings is worth it to many. In many towns in the developing world a popular and inexpensive form of reaching people is the bicycle, it is used as a taxi, to move cargo and even to sell ice cream. We thought it was time to give the bicycle a bit of an upgrade by bringing the cost savings of a call shop to the people using the same familiar bicycle they use for transportation. We call it Llamadas Pedaleadas or Pedaled Phone Calls. The one essential thing that a cell phone has that a call shop doesn't is a battery, so using parts found in a junk yard we created a constantly recharging battery by pedal power. Electricity is generated as the person is traveling to his destination, if the battery runs low at the destination he can drop the kick stand and start cycling in place. Generating electricity from pedaling allows us to travel to the central park, a remote town or a big festival increasing access to inexpensive telephony anywhere. Because this bike is built for the developing world we had to use parts that could be easily found. To generate the electricity we used an old car alternator that sends the electricity generated to a car battery. The electricity stored in the battery is accessed by an old computer UPS to convert the electricity to 110V. Our goal with this bike is to create a ready made business for local entrepreneurs and to increase access to affordable telephony for bottom of the pyramid customers. For more information you can contact us at info@llamadas.com.ni
Pedal Powered Mobile Call Shop - Nicaragua
In Nicaragua people make national and international phone calls every day in call shops using their cell phones as address books instead of cell phones, although this may seem inconvenient to some the savings is worth it to many. In many towns in the developing world a popular and inexpensive form of reaching people is the bicycle, it is used as a taxi, to move cargo and even to sell ice cream. We thought it was time to give the bicycle a bit of an upgrade by bringing the cost savings of a call shop to the people using the same familiar bicycle they use for transportation. We call it Llamadas Pedaleadas or Pedaled Phone Calls. The one essential thing that a cell phone has that a call shop doesn't is a battery, so using parts found in a junk yard we created a constantly recharging battery by pedal power. Electricity is generated as the person is traveling to his destination, if the battery runs low at the destination he can drop the kick stand and start cycling in place. Generating electricity from pedaling allows us to travel to the central park, a remote town or a big festival increasing access to inexpensive telephony anywhere. Because this bike is built for the developing world we had to use parts that could be easily found. To generate the electricity we used an old car alternator that sends the electricity generated to a car battery. The electricity stored in the battery is accessed by an old computer UPS to convert the electricity to 110V. Our goal with this bike is to create a ready made business for local entrepreneurs and to increase access to affordable telephony for bottom of the pyramid customers. For more information you can contact us at info@llamadas.com.ni
1994-1995 Las cabinas Públicas descubiertas por los peruanos
Las cabinas públicas fueron rápidamente apropiadas como modelo de desarrollo por los peruanos antes que nadie en la region. Sin ningun tipo de ayuda gubernamental o de organismos internacionales generaron un red autónoma - de propietarios - que produjeron en 1998 un mercado de 18 millones de dólares. Un ejemplo que luego fue copiado en el exterior y en el interior a pesar de ser denostado y destruido por falta de visión de largo plazo.
Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology
http://www.ted.com At TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data -- including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper "laptop." In an onstage Q&A, Mistry says he'll open-source the software behind SixthSense, to open its possibilities to all. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate. Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10
The purpose of the Videos page is to highlight the latest research and projects being conducted in developing and transitional countries.
Our intention is to contribute and expand the conversation about what works and what does not in the fields of media development and media and communications for development.