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Aron van Groningen, Judith Schermer, Tasos Sidiroloulos, “Ma Moisson”, an Application that Provides Fertilizer Advice for Farmers in Ghana, Student poster ICT4D@VU course 2018, exhibited at WebSci18 Conference. [PDF]

Allard Oelen, Thijs Oggel, Nip van Wees, Tom Tol, Marprice, a System for Farmers in Rural Africa to Retrieve the Latest Market Prices. Student poster ICT4D@VU course 2018, exhibited at WebSci18 Conference. [PDF]

Nana Baah Gyan, RadioMarché, an Information System for Rural Farmers. Poster 2016. [PDF]

Francis Dittoh, Meteo 2.0, Weather Forecast for Rural Farmers. Poster 2016, [PDF

Gossa Lô, Romy Blankendaal, Victor de Boer, Kasadaka, a Rapid Prototyping Platform for the Rural Poor. Poster 2016, [PDF].

Anna Bon (Poster) ICT4D 3.0 A User-centred Approach to ICT and Innovation for Development 2016. [PDF]

Bringing the Web of Data to Developing Countries – Linked Market Data in the Sahel Region. Poster by Victor de Boer, Nana Baah Gyan, Pieter de Leenheer, Anna Bon, Chris van Aart, Christophe Guéret, Wendelien Tuijp, Stephane Boyera, Mary Allen, Hans Akkermans. Presented at Extended Semantic Web Conference 2012, Heraklion, Greece. Award winning “best poster” at Extended Sematic Web Conference 2012. [PDF]

Myrthe van der Wekken, Gossa Lô, Julie Ferguson, Stefan Schlobach, Victor de Boer, Christophe Guéret, Wendelien Tuyp, Anna Bon, Hans Akkermans: Knowledge Sharing for the Rural Poor. Poster 2015 [PDF].

Gossa Lô, Myrthe van der Wekken, Stefan Schlobach, Victor de Boer, Christophe Guéret, Julie Ferguson, Anna Bon, Wendelien Tuyp, Hans Akkermans: DigiVet, A Decision Support App for Animal Health in Ghana. Poster 2015 [PDF].

Anna Bon, Victor de Boer, Pieter De Leenheer, Chris van Aart, Nana Baah Gyan, Max Froumentin, Stephane Boyera, Mary Allen, Hans Akkermans 2012 P0ster Web of Radios – [PDF].

Visiting professor Hans Akkermans, ICT4D expert André Baart, CEO at Babafla, AI specialists Gossa Lô and Chris van Aart from Dutch tech firm Bolesian and video & media expert Leeuw van Moerkerken from Leeuw Film visit UDS for a AI/ICT4D ongoing collaboration in education and research, with UDS researchers Francis Dittoh, Gideon Ali and many others. Anna Bon represents VU Amsterdam in the ICT4D workshop, that will take place in a rural community nera Nyankpala, The team will meet the Department Head of the Computer Science Department, Dr. Barik, the Dean of Engineering Prof Seini, the Director of International Relations, Prof. Courage Setsoafia. And we will meet Prof Saa Dittoh in a writing workshop about the book about Indigenous Knowledge and the Plug-in Principle. To be continued...

30 June - 1 July - Connecting Worlds Conference at NU gebouw VU. Keynotes from Saa Dittoh and Narayanan Kulathuramayir. 7 June 2022 - start of ICT4D in the Field course. 1-8 May TMT-OKP funded W4RA Second Workshop in Koudougou, Burkina Faso, with women entrepreneurs for Regreening, marketing of non-timber forest products. W4RA and Reseau MARP. 22-28 February 2022 TMT-OKP funded W4RA workshop with AOPP in Mali, about seeds 7-12 February 2022 - TMT-OKP funded W4RA Workshop in Koudougou, Burkina Faso, with women entrepreneurs for Regreening, who produce non-timber forest products. W4RA and Reseau MARP. 9-16 November 2021 "Cyber Security in and for the Global South". An interdisciplinary seminar organized by Universitas Indonesia and VU Amsterdam. 26-27 August 2021 Academic Conference "Digital Society and Global Citizenship" location: VU (tbd) and online. 28 June 2021 Final Student Conference ICT4D in the Field - 6 projects presented on AI in and for the Global South. 2-4 June 2021 Webinar "AI in and for the gLobal South" online event with 9 AI expert lectures. 28 May 2021 Start ICT4D in the Field course. 31 March - 20 May 2021 ICT4D master course at VU. 26 March 2021 Panel Discussion DIgHum - Education and the Digital Society. 26 February 2021: Francis Dittoh presented the paper Tibaŋsim: Information Access for Low-Resource Environments at ICICT 2021 Conference. 15 December 2020 at 13h CET: Anna Bon defended her PhD thesis Intervention or Collaboration? Redesigning Information and Communication Technologies for Development in the Aula of Maastricht University. 11 December 2020: Sophie Vos and Hella Schaefers presented again at the IFIP conference the Food Security Project Sustainability and Ethics by Design. 26 November 2020: Sophie Vos and Hella Schaefers present their paper at the Amsterdam Sustainability Institute.

Although the Internet offers a wealth of information, and the World Wide Web has become today's paradigm of information and knowledge sharing on the planet, it is still inaccessible to the illiterate and to most rural communities. Moreover, most websites offering information about Africa are written in English, French, and other European languages. Few, however, contain relevant content information in local African languages. Furthermore, the Web is only accessible with an Internet connection, which most rural households do not have, relying instead on radio and mobile phones for communication. These are all important obstacles to overcome. But we believe this is possible to achieve - due to today's advanced ICT technologies and the local and international technical-scientific expertise present in the W4RA collaboration program.