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“Putting Knowledge to Better Use – Industry responsiveness to gender differences in ICT demand in Vietnam” has the aim to develop ICT services and products to meet the demand of female users. Identify key barriers to gender-specific technological development.

The project is recently launched.

“Women’s Digital Baskets in Rwanda” has the aim to maintain culture and traditions with the help of ICT while creating the opportunity for enterprise and development among women in Rwanda.

Project is recently launched.

 

Since 2000 Sida/SAREC has supported the University of Ouagadougou (UO), the Polytechnic University of Bobo Diolasso (UPB) and the National Science and Technology Research Centre (CNRST) in Burkina Faso. The Sida assistance initially consisted of cooperation in research projects and support to students post graduate studies in Sweden and Burkina Faso.

Considerable advances have been achieved in the rollout of ICT-based public services in many government units. However, the experience and surveys show that there is inadequate contribution of ICT investment to the improvement of the organizational performance and public services delivery due to, among others, the lack of proper strategic planning, use and management of ICT. This is also due to the lack of ICT management programme in most of learning institutions in Tanzania. As a result the few experts trained abroad are absorbed by the private sector due to the high pay.

The main focus of this project is to equip the management with essential knowledge and skills not only for strategically aligning business logic and ICT infrastructure but also champion and managing integration of ICT with government objectives and strategies.

The project addresses the need to match public administrations capacity to make full use on the management level, of the Tanzanian government expansion of and commitment to e-governance in recent years. 

The aim of the project is to introduce ICT in the agricultural extension in Rwanda in such a way that all the involved actors in agriculture will be able to make the right decisions about relevant projects and come up with the best possible solutions in the field of agriculture.

This is a continuation of a previous project funded by SPIDER during 2005-2006. The purpose is to support development in four African countries by improving health research, teaching, and services. Objectives include building national and regional capacity in information retrieval and training, encouraging collaboration among persons involved with information retrieval, and capitalizing on Swedish investments in research training and research.

Few people use ATM or credit cards in developing countries such as Sri Lanka given that they do not have sufficient income levels and/or the fact that few ATMs are available in rural areas. The project will provide basic ATM services to people who have mobile phones, especially in rural areas. With the proposed solution people can withdraw money from a Mobile-ATM (M-ATM) without going to a traditional ATM machine. The M-ATM system uses cheap mobiles phones, functioning as payment terminals.

In the first part of this project (funded by SPIDER 2005-2006), a set of resources for processing Amharic (the working language of the Ethiopian government) was developed. The resources consist of text collections and tools for word-level analysis of Amharic. The primary goal of this continuation is to refine, extend and further develop the resources in order to make them useful to both the public and the research community.

This project, a continuation of a previous SPIDER-funded project, targets a large-scale implementation of an interactive TV and SMS "classroom" setting for ICT-enabled distance tuition at Bangladesh Open University.

The project will develop an agricultural market information system to improve local agricultural markets and empower small farmers in rural Bangladesh using low-cost existing SMS infrastructure to create a viable local organization for information collection and dissemination. Focus is on the collection and distribution of market information to beneficiaries rather than on the in-formation system as such, using appropriate technology given the local context.