Scarcity of Space in the Market
The area around Makola market is crowded with traders trying to carve out a small space to display their goods and attract the attention …
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Scarcity of Space in the Market
The area around Makola market is crowded with traders trying to carve out a small space to display their goods and attract the attention …
How to support smallholder and women farmers with ICT4Ag
Wondering what the research is saying about building ICT solutions in Agriculture? Our first ICT4D Technology Research Brief. Click to download the PDF:
What do RCTs of Market Information Systems actually evaluate?
There are now quite a number of experimental designs and RCTs (randomized controlled trials) of market information systems measuring revenue gained by rural agriculturalists …
The ‘Myth of Market Price Information’ at the CRS ICT4D conference
A warm welcome to visitors who’ve found their way to this page from the Catholic Relief Services ICT4D conference. To know more about the …
Chris Foster on ‘Thinking about market information systems’ in Rwanda’s tea sector
Reposting this entry from The Connectivity, Inclusion, and Inequality Group blog at the Oxford Internet Institute. (see the original post here and download the …
Corn and Lime Juice Seller, New Delhi, India
In an environment where the mobile phone is reaching near ubiquity, how does a migrant worker manage his day to day life without a …
Boda-boda driver, Kampala, Uganda
The daily financial lives of the poor are, without doubt, immensely complex. Irregular, uneven income streams are frequently unable to meet recurring and emergency …
Agricultural Product Seller, rural Uganda
In the absence of agricultural extension officers (paid by the government to disseminate information and expertise on farming), many farmers rely on the local …
Mobile phones and money — formal vs. informal finance (Uganda)
We are now in the process of analyzing data from last summer’s fieldwork on mobile phone use and money practices (conducted by Ishita Ghosh …
Revisiting the fishers of Kerala: understanding diverse uses of mobile phones and definitions of welfare
This month Janaki Srinivasan presented at the ICTD conference on her project revisiting the site of a canonical study on mobile phone use by …