Posts on the Country "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland"
Best Practice for Implementing Mobile Finance in Low-Income Communities
03/05/2017
The proliferation of mobile phones across the world has enabled financial institutions to take advantage and introduce services accessible through mobile handsets. A scoping study has explored the challenges of implementing mobile-finance in low-income communities and also evaluated secondary data...
ICTs in Humanitarian Response: The Power of Networks
19/04/2017
In this blog Oxfam publishes a report that gives a glimpse on the use of ICTs in humanitarian response. The report details activities, outcomes of the Scaling Humanitarian ICTs Networks (SHINE) project. Similarly e-Agriculture forum on ICTs and resilence provided use cases of ICTs in humanitarian...
First webinar GODAN Working Group on Capacity Development
14/03/2017
The GODAN Working Group on Capacity Development has organised a webinar that will give an overview of the activities of the working group (WG) and the webinar will also explain how one can get involved with WG's activities. GODAN welcomes all interested in joining the GODAN WG on Capacity...
Plantwise Knowledge bank, an open access website and app providing information on pest management
27/02/2017
The Plantwise Knowledge bank developed by CABI is an online and offline platform and app on plant health information and services. The website provides three different tools: search tool to identify pest problems, a search tool to find factsheets on pest problems, a map of pest distribution and a...
GODAN launches the Soil Data Working Group
15/02/2017
The Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition ( GODAN), has launched a new working group on Soil Data Working Group, in cooperation with the Research Data Alliance and the Global Soil Partnership. The working group was initially conceptualized during GODAN Summit 2016.The working group will...