by InSTEDD Global | Mar 24, 2017 | Blog | 0 Comments
Do you remember, years ago, when the gadget on your wrists just told the time? That seems like a lifetime ago, as in the current day, people are learning about their heart rate, counting calories, and being motivated to exercise. Devices like the Apple Watch and Fitbits are helping people track their health. And for many more, so is the smartphone in their pocket.
by InSTEDD Global | Mar 8, 2017 | Blog | 0 Comments
The best part of working at InSTEDD is the impact our projects have on lives in countries around the world. However, since I live in Massachusetts and work virtually, it’s easy to feel removed from the effects of international development.
by InSTEDD Global | Feb 28, 2017 | Blog | 0 Comments
“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. — Mark Twain” Developing software systems -and I’d dare to say all systems– implies mastering the arts of uncertainty and complexity. Uncertainty, because it is...
by Vannsan Nou | Feb 14, 2017 | Blog, Cambodia, iLab, Slider, Spider, Uncategorized | 0 Comments
January 25th, 2017- InSTEDD iLab Southeast Asia, (iLab SEA) funded by The Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions (SPIDER), conducted its InSTEDD iCamp (aka Innovation Camp) to help a dozen civil society agriculture organisations to improve farming production in...
by InSTEDD Global | Feb 10, 2017 | Blog | 0 Comments
As InSTEDD ramps up our activities for 2017, we took a moment to reflect back on the past year, the road we traveled, and what we learned.
by InSTEDD Global | Feb 3, 2017 | Blog | 0 Comments
Six years ago, in 2011, the Swedish Program for ICT4D in Developing Regions Program (SPIDER) began a multi-year technology, research, design, development and deployment collaboration with the InSTEDD iLab Southeast Asia office (iLab SEA). The common shared goal between the organizations was to assist efforts in Cambodia around knowledge sharing and innovative implementation of information communication technology for development (ICT4D).
by Vannsan Nou | Dec 23, 2016 | Blog, Cambodia, iLab, Spider | 0 Comments
Recent research from the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport has shown that students in Grade 3 struggle with writing proficiency in their native language, with a 65% failure rate at writing sentences correctly. Their vocabulary is limited, and their dictation...
by Vannsan Nou | Dec 15, 2016 | Asia, Blog, iLab, Infectious Diseases, Project, Uncategorized | 0 Comments
Controlling dengue requires timely reporting from the affected community. Simply put, if mosquito larvae can be controlled, dengue can be controlled. The Laos Department of Communicable Diseases Control (DCDC), Skoll Global Threats Fund (SGTF) and InSTEDD iLab...
by InSTEDD Global | Nov 18, 2016 | Blog | 0 Comments
Blog Post by Gillian Miswardi As part of an InSTEDD Global Communications Internship, I had the wonderful opportunity to engage in developing InSTEDD’s youth led digital mapping initiative. The initiative started in 2011 with a youth mapping in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,...