Author Archives: André Baart
ICT4D course for master students at VU, 2017
The VU ICT4D course 2017 will make you experience the “Unconnected World”, or rather: how large populations do not reach the Web. While we spend our lives in the era of live-streaming (twitch), cloud-computing (google drive) and voice-based home assistants (amazon alexa), billions still live without an internet connection and are unable to read and […]
Connecting the unconnected, lecture by Anna Bon, 18 March 2016 at VU
This was one of the three keynotes at the VU Lustrum Conference “Guide to the Network Society”, Amsterdam, 18 March 2016.
Speech technology for African languages: opportunities, challenges and recent progress
Prof. Dr. Etienne Barnard (North-West University, South Africa) gave an invited talk on Fri 09 May 2014, 14.30-15.30h, Intertain Lab Network Institute (WN-S111). Etienne Barnard is a partner in a research collaboration between South-Africa and the Network Institute of VU, specifically the W4RA program (Web Alliance for Regreening in Africa, www.w4ra.org). This invited talk is […]
W4RA meeting in Burkina Faso
In January 2014 the W4RA team met in Ouagadougou to prepare for activities in Burkina Faso. The local partner here is Réseau MARP, the Burkinabe NGO that supports farmers in their regreening activities. VU Amsterdam through Chris Reij, has collaborated with Réseau MARP since the 1980s. The director of Réseau MARP, Mathieu Ouedraogo was one […]
