Food used to be called a basic human need along with water, peace, shelter, education and primary health care. It has also been called a prerequisite for health. Food security is now listed among the social determinants of health. It is clearly a determinant of a lot of things” life, […]
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Since June 2015 ICT4D researcher Cheah WaiShiang is participating in the W4RA team. Cheah studied computer science in Malaysia and Australia and holds a PhD in software engineering. He was involved as a researcher in several ICT4D projects in rural areas of Sarawak, Malaysia, in the telecenters of Long Lamai and […]
[Repost from Victor’s blog] Today, the second international VU symposium in ICT for Development was held. As last year, the workshop was a great success, with an international host of speakers and a variety of attendees (around 80 people joined). This year’s symposium we looked at the opportunities and challenges for “Data […]
Last week, a collaborative workshop was organized in Walewale, Ghana – 27 April to 1 May – by VUA’s W4RA team, together with a team of researchers from the University for Development Studies in Ghana. The aim of the workshop is to identify information needs of local farmers, to enhance and […]
Monday, 24 March 2015, Professor Hans Akkermans, founding director of the Network Institute and chair of the W4RA, presented the research agenda of VU University Amsterdam, during an economic mission by the Amsterdam Municipality to India. W4RA’s SmartRural was amongst the highlights of VU’s research theme The Connected World, which […]
Gossa and Myrthe, students from VU University Amsterdam are currently in Northern Ghana, doing fieldwork for the interdisciplinary ICT4D research project “Knowledge Sharing for the Rural Poor“. For this project they received a grant from the Network Institute, and are supported by W4RA. The University for Development Studies Ghana – […]
Julie Ferguson presented the interdisciplinary ICT4D research project Knowledge Sharing for the Rural Poor. This took place at the kick-off of the Network Institute 2014 – Academy Assistants program, at VU IntertainLab. The two selected Academy Assistants are the students Myrthe van der Wekken (Culture, Organization & Management) and Gossa […]
The third International Downscale workshop took place on October 8th at VU University Amsterdam. DownScale 2014 was the third edition of our international workshop on Downscaling the Semantic Web. In the Downscale workshops we investigate the potential for (semantic) web and linked data technologies for ICT for Development. The […]