In the section “TIC Benin” you will find respectively articles I republish on the state of ICT in Benin (my home country); in “Documents clés” I have included some key documents I wish to signal dealing with ICT4D mainly. In the section “Mes contributions” you will find publications I authored or commented on. Most articles published on this website are in French. In this section, I have included most articles published in English (written by myself or not) on the website.
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) – A significant step towards achieving a lower communications cost within the West and Central Africa regions has been taken by the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) Agency, with a private ICT consultant commissioned to do a study on broadband cost reduction.
A statement, made available to PANA here Thursday, by the South Africa-based continental Agency, said Detecon International had been selected to conduct the study.
It said that the
…(Opinion piece published originally in the E-learning Africa 2013 Report, May 2013)
“Really? But what has the agricultural sector got to do with Web 2.0?” That was the sarcastic question I was asked one day when I was describing the Web 2.0 training that I provide to CTA (the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation).
It was an understandable question; on the one hand the Web 2.0 concept seemed to be a current reality reserved only
…Article by a journalist on a session I moderated during the international conference Making the Connection: value chain for transforming stakeholder agriculture, organized mainly by the Technical Center for Agriculture and Rural Cooperation (CTA). The theme of the session was on mobile phones and agriculture value chains. The conference was organized in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 05 to 09 November 2012. KL
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Mobile services strengthening agricultural
…(Paper presented at the IAALD Chapter Conference 2012, Johannesburg, South Africa, 21-23 May 2012)
Summary:
Strengthening the involvement of youth in agriculture and addressing the challenges they face in embracing agricultural professional activities are pressing issues that determine the prosperity of that sector in Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) regions (CTA, 2011). The new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) can also play a pivotal role in that context (SPC-PAFPNet,
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