On 8 December 2023, the Connected World Conference took place in teh Aurora auditorium at VU Amsterdam. This aim of this conference is connecting people in the Digital Society. One of the cases presented was the Sumbala project, in which we connect women entrepreneurs in Burkina Faso to support their […]
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We received the sad news that our friend and project partner Yacouba Sawadogo, “the Man who Stopped the Desert” passed away on 3 December 2023. The farmer innovator Yacouba Sawadogo became world famous after the documentary “Man who Stopped the Desert” by Marc Dodd in 2009. Yacouba Sawadogo won became […]
Social Innovation for Regreening & Resilience in Low Resource Environments Essay by Wendelien Tuijp & Anna Bon This essay is the authors’ version of a chapter in the book The Connected World – Insights from 100 Academics on How to Build better Connections, edited by Ivar Vermeulen, 2023, VU University […]
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, […]
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.
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.
W4RA’s action research program, together with Réseau MARP, with support of Nuffic in the Orange Knowledge Program help a workshop from 7 to 11 February 2022 in Réo, Sanguié province, Burkina Faso. The workshop participants were 18 women, all producers of non-timber forest products. Non-timber forest products (NTFPs) are defined […]