A film by Leeuw van Moerkerken February 2023 Translation by Gideon Amakama Ali
June 2023 – The field of ICT4D (Information and Communication Technologies for Development) generally addresses problems of, and solutions for, the “unconnected people in the world”. Currently, this is close to half of the world’s population, the majority of whom live in poor, remote, often rural, regions of the world, […]
Small indigenous languages of the world are often spoken in regions where literacy rates are low and access to digital services is limited. Whereas voice information services could be useful for low literate speakers of these languages, written and audio data from these languages are hardly available. This paper presents […]
W4RA was interviewed for the Dutch television on 11 November 2022. This short clip was broadcasted on 11 March 2023 in the program “How its done” at RTLZ.
Tamale, 16 February 2023 – today Francis Saa-Dittoh launched officially the Tiballi project at the Nim Avenue Hotel in Tamale, Ghana, in the presence of fifty stakeholders, including farmers and AI/ICT4D experts. About the Tiballi project Can advanced AI methods (ML, NLP) be reconstructed so as to make the Internet […]
The W4RA team, together with partners from the AOPP (Association des Organisations Professionnelles Paysannes) in Mali have just completed a project in the framework of Orange Knowledge Programme to enhance the value chains for cereal seeds in rural areas of the Sahel. This short video shows the highlights of this […]
The longstanding collaboration between the VU Centre for International Cooperation and the Computer Science Department of VU on the research theme ICT for Development – the Digitizing Society in the Global South, has again led, this year again, to a fruitful result. We can harvest seven interesting theses and one […]
Promotion of non-timber forest products by innovative women farmers in Burkina Faso from Anna Bon on Vimeo.
Connecting Worlds Conference – an event in the framework of the VU profiling theme, the “Connected World” took place on 30 June and 1 July. This international event has brought together academics from south and north, from various disciplines and different continents, to discuss relevant research topics & challenge-based education […]
Last week CYBER – an educational project on Cyber Security in Indonesia, implemented by Universitas Indonesia and VU, was celebrated with the inauguration of the first multi-disciplinary Cyber Security Student Hall & Multidisciplinary Lab in Indonesia. Cyber Security education in Indonesia is an example of 21st century challenge-based multi-disciplinary education. […]
Radio l’Espoir – la Voix du Sanguié made a reportage about the workshop of VU and Réseau MARP. Interviews were broadcast on the radio disseminating the work of women, producers of *Non-Timber Forest Products*. Non-Timber Forest Products are the local answer to healthy and affordable nutrition in rural regions of […]