Blogs
Driving traffic to your web-site
Developing a website for your organization is a big step in promoting yourselves to the world. Getting visitors and attracting the relevant people to visit your site, is a totaly different thing. Skills are needed to attract clients and make them stay long in your site.
Did you know?
Did you know?
In Benin, the cost of a generic PC is equivalent to a teacher's salary for eight months?
Why are Councils slow in adopting GIS?
Councils in Kenya have began adopting ICT. GIS, a component of ICT is a powerful planning tool for the Kenyan Councils. ICT has already paid off for the champion Councils in Kenya. Less than five Councils have experimented witth GIS in Kenya. What may be hindering the Councils to employ GIS in their planning?
Farmers Associations and ICT
Coffee and dairy farmers associations will have a go at ICT on 16th December 2009. On this day the new edition of CoopWorks will be launch at a big event at the Co-operative Bank of Kenya Training Centre in Nairobi. Partners include the Co-operative College of Kenya and the Kenya National Federation of Cooperatives (KNFC).
Affordable rural ICT
Can small-scale farmers use computers, and can they afford it? The answer is yes but not things are not done the same way as in metropolitan companies. For the solution provider all emphasis is on (1) true value added; (2) simplicity and usability; (3) low acquisition cost; (4) support, support, support. The CoopWorks Farmers Association Management software system seems to come close to these requirements. Has the CoopWorks team worked out the real costs and benefits for a farmers' society?
Affordable last mile solution
Connectivity is the most challenging ICT component for the rural economies. Rural areas lag behind in terms of connectivity. Broadband is always touted as the best solution. How effective and affordable this is, is the debate.
