News item by IICD: Ethiopian mobile technology company Apposit LLC joins forces with the ICT for development consortium Connect4Change. Together they will support more than 150 Ethopian farmer marketing organisations in the design and roll-out of mobile services. Photo: Adam Polselli, www.flickr.com/photos/polcelli Apposit LLC is a company with proven experience in mobile solutions for Ethiopian organisations [...]
New item by Akvo: Together with Olaf Erz from IICD, I visited the main local partners for Connect4Change in Ethiopia: the Development Education Center (DEC) and Facilitators for Change (FC). The DEC acts as the local frontline office of Edukans being responsible for the education focus area, while FC is ICCO’s main partner in Ethiopia [...]
Video interview by Akvo: Shot by Luuk Diphoorn on 19-09-2011 in Addis Ababe, Ethiopia. This video interview is with Etefa Merga, who works with the Development Expertise Centre (DEC) in Ethiopia. He explains in brief what the DEC is, namely a local frontline office for a Dutch NGO called Edukans who is specialized in the [...]
Video interview by Akvo: By Luuk Diphoorn on 21-09-2011 in the Apposit office in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. This video interview is with Adam Abate, who is managing partner with Apposit here in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Apposit (www.apposit.com) is a company that specializes in the development of software, especially for mobile phone communications and content. They [...]
News item by Edukans: Better education at forty primary schools in rural Ethiopia, that is the result of a program executed by Edukans and the Inter-Faculty Teaching Program at the University of Amsterdam in collaboration with the Development Expertise Centre (local office of Edukans in Ethiopia) and some PABO teachers. The project will be continued, [...]
Blog by Gaël Hernández, Technical Advisor East Africa at IICD One of the purposes of a solution design workshop is to assist partners in the Connect4Change consortium in the formulation of their project proposals from a technical angle. In March, April and June, I travelled to Ethiopia, Zambia and Uganda to facilitate the workshops with [...]
