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Activity Description: Run by students of the University of Dhaka and based in Mirpur, Dhaka, and Bangladesh, Xayan-IT is an ICT-driven social venture which provides youth with theoretical and practical ICT education. The objective of Xayan-IT is to harness the skills and talents of young people to help them create sustainable and challenging employment for themselves.

Activity Description: Since 1999, Kothmale Community Radio (KCR) has been serving as an interface between the rural communities in the central hill region of Sri Lanka and new communication technologies through its Community Multimedia Centre (CMC).

The eTUKTUK is a community building initiative that aims to converge the technological benefits of digital communications and new media with community radio. The eTUKTUK is a self-contained mobile telecentre and radio broadcasting unit housed within a three wheeled motorcycle.

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In 2001 the CROMABU project (www.cromabul.com) was designed to gather and disseminate relevant information regarding crop prices in local and international markets in English and Kiswahili to help empower micro and small enterprises. Youth, particularly ex-students from primary and secondary schools, are the key channel of communication between the CROMABU and the targeted small-scale farmers in Magu; they are employed as agents and use bicycles to collect and distribute all relevant documents to the villages.

Activity Description: Villagers in India lack access to affordable healthcare. As a result, life expectancy in villages is 8 years less than for city dwellers, the prevalence of disease is high, and diseases of poverty such as malaria and tuberculosis often go untreated.

Jiva’s "TeleDoc" is a low-cost eHealth program which provides effective Ayurvedic healthcare, and brings high-quality medical attention directly to rural India. In the ‘Women's Healthcare’ component, TeleDoc will provide training, software, and village-appropriate information resources addressing women's reproductive health—including pre-natal and post-natal care.

Activity Description: Dimagi offers customized, low-cost services in health informatics and software development through its team of specialists in medicine, public health and engineering, to bridge the gap between clinical needs and engineering constraints.

Dimagi's systems are built upon power efficient and practical, robust hardware platforms that range from mobile phones to mini-PCs. The engineering team has experience developing and deploying systems for rural India, South Africa and Zambia.

Activity Description: The IKON project is a pilot that experiments with tele-radiology via the Internet. Almost all radiologists in Mali are located in the capital Bamako, which means that up till now all expert diagnosis of radios, had to take place in the capital, sometimes up to 1.000 kilometres from the regional hospital where the first analysis was made. The tele-radiology project provides a solution for this problem, by offering the possibility to send or receive radio scans and diagnoses over the Internet.

Activity Description: Working with local communities in rural Ghana, this research project by IICD is testing ways to help the ‘push’ for local content by building community capacities to create and distribute local knowledge on mother and child health in a digital format. The project is co-financed by IICD and Gamos, and implemented by the Health Foundation of Ghana.

The International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) assists developing countries to realise locally owned sustainable development by harnessing the potential of information and communication technologies (ICTs). IICD works with its partner organisations in selected countries, helping local stakeholders to assess the potential uses of ICTs in development.

Activity Description: The International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) is an independent, non-profit organization that assists developing countries to realise locally-owned, sustainable development, by harnessing the potential of information and communication technologies (ICTs). IICD works with its partner organisations in (currently nine) selected countries, helping local stakeholders to assess the potential uses of ICTs in development.

Activity Description: Bioplaneta is a national network of rural sustainable companies and cooperatives. This network is allied to a broad group of institutions, educational and investigation centers, non-government organizations and people committed to sustainable development, quality of life and social and commercial fairness.

Bioplaneta is a tool for communities and their companies to improve and maintain quality using environmentally-sustainable methods, and to market products and services in the local, national and global markets in equitable ways.

Activity Description: BiOS - Biological Innovation for Open Society - is an initiative of CAMBIA (Can international, independent non-profit research institute for Open Source Biotechnology and Patent Informatics) to extend open source software and distributive innovation to applications of the life sciences to human and environmental well being.

The biological innovation that BiOS researches and develops includes: plant and animal breeding, crop husbandry and protection, agronomy, genetic and natural resource conservation, management and use, medical and public health interventions and environmental remedies.

Activity Description: Bandwidth Barn is an IT-start-up incubator that provides bandwidth as well as office space, equipment, and in-house tech support to help IT SMEs succeed in South Africa. Because its services and bandwidth are shared collectively among clients, bandwidth costs are low.

Additionally, Bandwidth Barn promotes a "culture of entrepreneurship" by facilitating a networked environment, particularly with the Cape IT Initiative; clients, staff, and outside entrepreneurs in the Cape IT network can thereby share advice and expertise.

Activity Description: OSS.net, the leading teacher and practitioner of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) - an intelligence gathering discipline based on aggregating information from open sources - is engaged in a new global campaign to deliver tailored open source information to the poor, as a means of empowering them to rise from poverty.

Activity Description: FrontlineSMS provides full text messaging management from a Windows desktop application via a mobile phone, removing the need for the user to be anywhere near an internet connection. Almost all existing commercial SMS applications tie the user to the web, and require bulk purchase of messages. FrontlineSMS, which was designed to enable NGOs and conservation groups to gain entry to SMS arenas, requires neither.