The first morning sessoin I went to was on UNICEF, which focused on the importance of developing applicatoins for mobile phones to benefit children, particularly in Southern Africa. I had seen this presentation before, last year in South Africa. UNICEF has developed a software package, RapidSMS, which is a powerful web based SMS software package. UNICEF is also supporting a lot of interesting ways to use mobile phone for education, primarily nonformal education.
I then went to a presentation by Creative Commons regional representative for the Middle East and North Africa. I am a big fan of Creative Commons licenses, and was curious to see what Creative Commons was doing in a place where restrictive copyrights are largely ignored. The focus in… Continue reading
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