User involvement is key to building sustainable and useful ICTs. Of course that principle also holds for ICTs that have to serve people in a rural setting in Africa. This is an evaluation session of systems built by students of the ICT4D course 2017 at VU. Two key users in Mali and Burkina Faso are evaluating its usefulness and giving feedback on the requirements.
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Anna Bon
Member of the W4RA team; Centre for International Cooperation, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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