ICT for development

In a video clip edited by Anja Barth, Chris Addison uses the concept of the Two Hands to explain the building blocks of Web 2 for development at the Web2forDev Conference held in Rome, Italy on September 25-27, 2007.



In this Web2fordev Conference interview with Mark Davies, presents his view on the importance of the mobile phone as appropriate technology for development in West Africa. He also emphasises that simply pushing out information will not work - it has to be connected with on-the-ground development work and with the informal networks that local people know and trust.




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