Monthly Archives: April 2016

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Connecting the unconnected, lecture by Anna Bon, 18 March 2016 at VU

This entry was posted in Africa ICT4D Information and Communication Technologies News&media Regreening Uncategorized on April 22, 2016 by André Baart.

This was one of the three keynotes at the VU Lustrum Conference “Guide to the Network Society”, Amsterdam, 18 March 2016.

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Dr. Nana Baah Gyan and the Web for Rural Development

This entry was posted in ICT4D and tagged ICT4D nana baah gyan phd w4ra web for africa Web Science on April 12, 2016 by Victor de Boer.

On 5 april 2016, Nana Baah Gyan successfully defended his PhD thesis “The Web, Speech Technologies and Rural Development in West Africa, An ICT4D Approach” in front of the reading committee at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Dr. Nana worked as a PhD researcher mostly in the context of the FP-7 VOICES project and was supervised by prof. Hans Akkermans and […]

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A look back at the 3rd VU ICT4D symposium

This entry was posted in ICT4D and tagged community service Computer Science Education ICT4D kasadaka network institute siks subramaniam symposium w4ra on April 10, 2016 by Victor de Boer.

On 6 April 2016, the Third International Symposium “Perspectives on ICT for Development (ICT4D)” was hosted by the VU Network Institute, the Netherlands Research School for Information and Knowledge Systems SIKS, the Computer Science Department and VU International Office. This year’s theme was “Community Service & Education”. A great team of invited speakers from India, Ghana, South-Africa […]

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