Children and young people’s vision for a new Haiti
Report released March 29, 2010 Often adults think that children and youth don’t have the capacity to express themselves or make good decisions. I’ve been working with kids for a long time and I...
View ArticleMobile tech and child protection in West Africa
Last October, UNICEF West Africa wrote up a nice briefing note on mobile tech and its relevance in child protection programming. You can download it here. According to the document, pulled together by...
View ArticlePanel: Using ICTs to enhance C4D work with adolescent girls
If you happen to be in New York City and have a couple of hours to spare, come on by to this panel today from 12-2 at UNICEF’s Danny Kaye Center. I’ll be doing an overview of some research that Keshet...
View ArticleHow can ICTs improve the lives of children and youth living in cities?
At the global level, a very small percentage of development funding goes to urban spaces, yet hard-hitting issues impact many of the urban poor: lack of tenure, lack of legality of land, informal...
View ArticleIntegrating ICTs into Communication for Development programs with adolescent...
A paper that Keshet Bachan and I authored for Unicef is now available for your reading pleasure! Here’s a summary of what we talk about in the paper: Social, cultural, economic and political...
View ArticleHow can we use ICTs to engage adolescent girls?
At the November 8th Technology Salon in New York City, we looked at the role of ICTs in communication for development (C4D) initiatives with marginalized adolescent girls. Lead discussants Kerida...
View ArticleTech is the easy part – don’t forget ‘peopleware’
There’s a popular saying amongst the tech and development crowd that 10% of an ICT4D initiative is the tech and the rest is…. well, the rest. I’ve recently heard a modified version that says 5% is the...
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