Category Archives: Community Service Education

ICT4D in the Field – a truly collaborative online course for students from three continents

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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, often in so-called developing low/middle-income countries. The central […]

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Digital Divide, Citizenship and Inclusion in Amsterdam

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“The Digital Divide is commonly associated with those parts of the world, where access to Internet and Web is poor or lacking. However, even in places such as the city of Amsterdam, where Internet infrastructure and access are commonplace, a Digital Divide exists. A significant part of the population (1 out of 5) is currently […]

Don’t miss the 6th International Symposium Perspectives on ICT4D – 23 May

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The Symposium “Perspectives on ICT4D” gathers a broad community of researchers and practitioners to discuss and reflect on barriers and paradigms that can improve information sharing for billions of people in the world. With this event we want to facilitate a reflective debate that should include the people at the “other” side of the digital […]

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Master student ICT4D blogging from Sarawak, Malaysia

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Blog by Aron van Groningen, master student Information Science at VU doing his master research field work in communities (kampungs) in Sarawak, Malaysia. Hi all! here’s a little story about my ICT4D in the field work for my master thesis and what I am doing in Sarawak, Malaysia   Education is a big problem in […]

Student projects: Digital Divide and Social Inclusion of Homeless People

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In the framework  of the W4RA research program to tackle Global Challenges and bridge the Digital Divide,  five students Information Science set out to map the contours of digital exclusion within our own urban, wealthy, and highly connected context. Carlbandro Edoga and  Marc Hegeman examined the obstacles homeless people face in urban areas of the […]

The Amsterdam Digital Divide team at VU Amsterdam
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Digitize Amsterdam: New Student Projects in the W4RA team

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The Digital Divide is not just a North-South divide in the world. Digital exclusion is all around us. We don’t need to travel far. Making a West coast road trip helped me and my family have an amazing time. To tackle this problem, in 2019 the W4RA program has started exploration of the Digital Gap in […]

BannaTree, an application to support banana farmers in rural Sarawak

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A group of students from VU Amsterdam and UNIMAS, Sarawak, have carried out an ICT4D in the Field project in June 2018. The goal of this project was to build an information system that supports the work of banana contract farmers in rural Sarawak. To do so, the students did a context analysis followed by […]

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Appong: an application to help Gula Apong producers in Sarawak

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Appong is the name of an application that helps increase sales of Gula Apong, a traditional sugar product, produced by smallholder farmers in Sarawak, Malaysia. The application was designed and built by a mixed team of master students from VU Amsterdam and UNIMAS: Giorgi, Judith, Kuan and Chris, in the framework of an educational ICT4D […]

Final conference ICT4D in the Field – collaborative course by VU and UNIMAS

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Samarahan, 2 July 2018 “It is a great pleasure to present to you the work of our VU and UNIMAS student group, who worked the past month of June very hard to build ICT solutions to serve local communities in Sarawak, Malaysia, in a practically oriented course that we have given the name ICT4D in […]