Humanitarian Centre to launch year-long focus on ICT

IT | Niki May Young | 12 Oct 2010

Networking charity the Humanitarian Centre is to launch a year-long focus on the part of ICT on international development, with activities, training courses and an online directory.

Working in collaboration with ARM, a company producing technology for almost every mobile phone, the Cambridge-based centre will work to “increase connectivity between Cambridge individuals and organisations” to develop new ways to impact the lives of poor people through its ICT4D programme.

One of the features to develop from the programme is an online directory of organisations and individuals involved in ICT4D.

Centre manager Ian Steed said: “Cambridge has an array of individuals and organisations whose work touches directly or indirectly on ICT for development. Our aim is to facilitate collaborations between groups that would not otherwise connect in order to spark new ideas and ways of working that will have impact on the lives of poor people.”

ARM’s director of sustainable development adds: “ARM is delighted to be partnering with the Humanitarian Centre for their year focussing on ICT for Development and is looking forward to the range of speakers and events that are being organised over the next 12 months.”

ICT4D will launch at an event on the 26 October with speakers David Edelstein, director of the Grameen Technology Center (GTC) and vice president of technology programs at the Grameen Foundation and Ken Banks, founder of Kiwanja.net.

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