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Information and Communication Technologies for Development and Poverty Reduction: The Potential of Communications

Author: Maximo Torero and Joachim von Braun

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press

Publication date: April 2006

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Information Services

Participatory mapping in Uganda - Flickr/ILRI

Mapping locally

With a little help, communities can use technology to build local knowledge of climate change risks
Farmers with mobile phones - Flickr/IICD

Apps for Africa

Prize-winning software applications are helping East African farmers cope with climate challenges
Kenyan farmer selling vegetables by Flickr/ Biodiversity International

Tech community power

'Open innovation' can stimulate the development of new technologies in any community, says iHub's Linda Kamau
Processing biofortied cassava in Colombia by Flickr/CIAT International Center for Tropical Agriculture/Neil Palmer

More money, more problems?

Colombian scientists are divided over mining royalties going to areas with little research infrastructure
Brahamputra river by Flickr/amirjina

Weather warnings

A few days warning makes all the difference when floods are on their way