Siyafunda Community Technology Centres were launched in cooperation with Cisco, Appleseeds and One Global Economy, and provided skills training and educational opportunities to communities around Johannesburg, South Africa.
The Tseikuru Community Knowledge Centre (CKC) site is in the home village of the Vice President of Kenya. The community members living there are mostly small-scale farmers and the CKC is owned and administered by the Kalonzo Musyoka Foundation. The KMF is an organization dedicated to the improvement of the quality of life for all, …
FGAE is a large Addis Ababa-based NGO associated with the Ethiopian government, whose mission is to educate families and youth on a wide range of health topics with an emphasis on reproductive health. The organization was founded in 1966 and now operates 18 clinics and 26 youth centers around the country. In order to promote …
Sega Silicon Valley, started by Simba Friends, is an organization whose goal is to empower its community through IT trainings and eco-development in rural western Kenya. In October 2008, Inveneo trained Sega Silicon Valley’s technical team on sustainable rural ICT deployments. In March 2008, Cisco chose Sega as the first CKC location in Kenya and …
A long-time supporter of Inveneo, Cisco recently put together this beautiful video of the Community Knowledge Centers (CKCs).
Making technology work in the rural and developing world is a process full of unique challenges. I am Andris Bjornson, Inveneo’s Chief Technology Officer and practicing project engineer. As an Inveneo engineer, I have to be prepared for it all. Recently in Kenya’s Masai Mara Game Preserve, I had what I’d call in rock climbing …
The Inveneo Buyers Guide to Sustainable ICT Infrastructure in Low Resource Settings is intended to serve as a planning tool for deploying information and communications technologies (ICTs) in low resource settings – i.e., communities lacking basic support infrastructure, such as grid power and broadband connectivity, and where computer skills among users and facilities managers are …
In places where Internet access is hard to come by but computer viruses spread like wildfire, protecting a single PC or an entire computer lab is a huge challenge. When files are shared between friends and colleagues, so is malware. This is not necessarily a problem if the user has taken proper measures against viruses and …
The Meru CKC is in the home constituency of the Minister of Higher Education in Kenya. The community members living there are mostly small-scale farmers and the CKC runs a community radio station in the same compound, which is already performing well and is used by many in the community, adults and youth who are …
