Publication Year: 2007 / Subject Term: rural development / Language: English / Journal Title: ICT Update

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Tucker, Roger (author) and Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2007-12
Published:: Kenya
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: C26822
Journal Title:: ICT Update
Journal Title Details:: 40
Notes:: 4 pages., Describes a text-to-speech system being used by the Banana Information Line, Kenya, to provide information to farmers.

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Adegbola, Tunde (author) and Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2007-12
Published:: Nigeria
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: C26825
Journal Title:: ICT Update
Journal Title Details:: 40
Notes:: 3 pages., "The traditional Yoruba 'talking drums' of Nigeria provided inspiration for a unique approach to speech recognition technology."

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Osborn, Don (author) and Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2007-12
Published:: International
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: C26823
Journal Title:: ICT Update
Journal Title Details:: 40
Notes:: 2 pages., Describes the linguistic complexities in Africa (e.g., more than 2,000 languages) and the Bisharat initiative in Mali to help focus attention on use of African languages in ICT projects, with emphasis on localization.

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Corbett, Jon (author), Kulchyski, Tim (author), Hukari, Tom (author), and Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2007-12
Published:: Canada
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: C26824
Journal Title:: ICT Update
Journal Title Details:: 40
Notes:: 2 pages., Describes a Canadian initiative for using new information technologies to aid the survival of an endangered language spoken in a number of rural communities on southern Vancouver Island.

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Ballantyne, Peter (author) and Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2007-10
Published:: International
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: C26821
Journal Title:: ICT Update
Journal Title Details:: 29
Notes:: 4 pages., Describes development of information technologies used by Euforic, Europe's Forum on International Cooperation.

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