IICD - International Institute for Communication and Development

ICT itineraries in Africa; how ICT4D plays a role in social change in Africa | CTD ICTs are reshaping our world. Throughout the continent, ordinary people increasingly make use of the internet, mobile telephones and social media in their personal and professional lives, reshaping their use of information and decision-making, and generating new socio-economic and political possibil…

Meet Joyce, one of the women farmers in Zambia’s Copperbelt region who are planning to make the transition from rain-fed to irrigated agriculture. As the transition draws closer, a Farmer Field School together with an Irrigation Demonstration Plot and Participatory Video training sessions have been set up within a project that will improve information access of nearly 500 people in the Musakashi area. Read all about it here: http://bit.ly/1U83Tl5

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