By Neelley Hicks, Guest Columnist Near the epicenter of the 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Haiti, less than three months after it occurred, Clif Guy of Church of the Resurrection (COR) encountered a unique challenge: how to build a communications infrastructure so what was happening on the ground could be conveyed to incoming relief teams and others who had invested themselves in the Petit Goave community. As director of IT at COR, Guy was used to…

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Tags: disaster response, education, Haiti, inveneo, ITC4D, UMC, vni, VNI-SA

By Russ Morris, Guest Columnist In the past 8 years I’ve been lucky enough to have my work exposed to a greater audience by being socially active on the internet. But, was it just luck? I started photo-blogging early 2004 after noticing that a few really good photographers were posting their work in an interesting way, demonstrating both technical and creative growth by sharing daily glimpses of the things they were seeing and photograph…

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Tags: art, photography, service adoption, social media, technology, vni, VNI-SA, VSA

…work, but luckily for us, we do not have to worry about that. Fortunately for us, Louis Lumiere was wrong when he said “the cinema is an invention without a future” when he invented one of the first motion picture cameras in 1895. More forward-looking changes in next-gen entertainment is digital television. The entertainment industry is all about evolution and as we look to the future we can expect to see less 3-D glasses and more benefits of di…

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Tags: 3D TV, digital TV, entertainment, trends, vni, VNI-SA

By Jason Kohn, Contributing Columnist State-of-the-art broadband services still don’t reach many parts of the African continent, especially rural villages. But one consumer technology is pervasive: cell phones. According to the Cisco VNI Service Adoption Forecast, there will be 1.3 billion consumer mobile devices across the Middle East and Africa by 2016 – a billion of them being basic feature phones, not smartphones. At the same time, mobile vi…

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Tags: africa, healthcare, ICT4D, mobile video, rural, vni, VNI-SA

…ns in rural Africa, so I knew she would have an atypical experience to share with us. The VNI Service Adoption research shows that for Middle East & Africa, the use of consumer mobile devices will grow from 906 million to 1.3 billion by 2016. Africa is now the second largest mobile phone market in the world. Solving Local Problems with Local Ideas Crowdsourcing ideas from members of local communities is not limited by economic and geographic…

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Tags: africa, agri-business, farming, Peace Corp, service adoption, vni, VNI-SA