World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

MERAKA Institute

The Institute supports regional initiatives under the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), collaborating with ICT organisations through staff and student exchange, and the establishment of co-operative programmes. In addition, the Meraka Institute leverages international science and technology collaboration and establishes global links to international programmes to contribute to and take advantage of international efforts in redressing the Digital Divide.

International Institute for Communication and Development
 

The International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) is a non-profit foundation that specialises in information and communication technology (ICT) as a tool for development.

IICD creates practical and sustainable solutions using both modern media (such as computers, Internet, email and multimedia) and traditional media (such as radio and television) to connect people and enable them to benefit from ICT, thereby contributing to the Millenium Development Goals.

Together with partners from the public, private and non-profit sector, IICD puts knowledge, innovation and finance to work. Currently, IICD is active in Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Ecuador, Ghana, Jamaica, Mali, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia in the sectors education, environment, governance, health and livelihoods (agriculture).

South Centre

The South Centre (the Centre) is an intergovernmental organization of developing countries established by an Intergovernmental Agreement (Treaty) which came into force on 31 July 1995 with its headquarters in Geneva.

The Centre intends to meet the need for analysis of development problems and experience, as well as to provide intellectual and policy support required by developing countries for collective and individual action, particularly in the international arena.

Global Knowledge Partnership

Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) is the world's first multi-stakeholder network promoting innovation and advancement in Knowledge and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for Development. GKP brings together Public Sector, Private Sector and Civil Society organisations with the goal of Sharing Knowledge and Building Partnerships in Knowledge and ICT for Development.

GKP activities and programmes foster the innovative application of knowledge and technology to address and solve development issues in four strategic themes - Access to Knowledge, Education, Poverty Reduction and Resource Mobilisation.

GKP operates globally as well as in 8 regions: Africa; Europe; East Asia; Latin America and the Caribbean; Middle East and North Africa; North America; Oceania and South Asia.

CONGDE

The mission of the NGO Coordinator for the Spanish Development Association is the coordination and promotion net of organizations and entities wich share a common code of conduct, as well as the provision of assistance and support to their organizations and represent their interests and values shared with the society, the government and other institutions and entities external to the Coordinator.

The vision of the CONGDE is a world free of poverty and able to effectively manage humanitarian disasters, in which premium social justice and equitable distribution of existing resources and derived from sustainable social, economic, cultural and political development in which all people without discrimination, they can exercise their right to participate in an equitable manner to constantly improve their welfare.
 

Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation

The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) is Switzerland’s international cooperation agency within the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA). In operating with other federal offices concerned, SDC is responsible for the overall coordination of development activities and cooperation with Eastern Europe, as well as for humanitarian aid.

The SDC carries out its activities with an annual budget of CHF 1.3 billion (2007) and a staff of some 620 people in Switzerland and abroad, as well as 1000 local employees. The Agency undertakes direct actions, supports programmes of multilateral organizations, and helps to finance programmes run by Swiss and international aid organizations.

United Nations Development Programme

UNDP is the UN's global development network, an organization advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. We are on the ground in 166 countries, working with them on their own solutions to global and national development challenges. As they develop local capacity, they draw on the people of UNDP and our wide range of partners.

World leaders have pledged to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, including the overarching goal of cutting poverty in half by 2015. UNDP's network links and coordinates global and national efforts to reach these Goals.

Microsoft Research India

Microsoft Research India, established in January 2005, is one of Microsoft’s five research labs worldwide. In keeping with the global mission of Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research India is engaged in cutting-edge basic and applied research in multiple fields in computing, information technology, and related areas.

In addition to innovating and contributing key technologies to Microsoft products, Microsoft Research India collaborates with a wide range of scientific and academic institutions to advance the state of the art in computing research in India. Microsoft Research India also collaborates extensively with the international scientific community and other Microsoft research labs to help push forward the boundaries of research.

World Bank

The World Bank is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. We are not a bank in the common sense. We are made up of two unique development institutions owned by 185 member countries—the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA).

Each institution plays a different but collaborative role to advance the vision of an inclusive and sustainable globalization. The IBRD focuses on middle income and creditworthy poor countries, while IDA focuses on the poorest countries in the world. Together we provide low-interest loans, interest-free credits and grants to developing countries for a wide array of purposes that include investments in education, health, public administration, infrastructure, financial and private sector development, agriculture, and environmental and natural resource management.

   Association for Progressive Communications

APC has been operating as an international, membership-based organisation since 1990. An strong mixture of southern and northern organisations, and it combined knowledge and experience of promoting and using ICTs at local, national and regional levels, differentiates the APC network and its works from many others.

The value and uniqueness comes from the local perspectives and contact with grassroots organisations that it gains through contact with, and between, its members.

 USHAHIDI

Ushahidi is a website that was developed to map reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election fallout at the beginning of 2008. Ushahidi’s roots are in the collaboration of Kenyan citizen journalists during a time of crisis.  Ushahidi means testimony or evidence in Kiswahili.

The new Ushahidi Engine is being created to use the lessons learned from Kenya to create a platform that allows anyone around the world to set up their own way to collect and visualize information. The core platform will allow for plug-in and extensions so that it can be customized for different locales and needs. This tool will be tested and made available as an open source application that others can download, implement and use to bring awareness to crises in their own region.

The core engine is built on the premise that gathering crisis information from the general public provides new insights into events happening in near real-time. It is being developed by a group of volunteer developers and designers, hailing primarily from Africa.  So far there are representatives from Kenya, South Africa, Malawi, Ghana and the US. 

Ushahidi plans to make the Ushahidi mapping tool available globally for free. After initial testing with NGO’s the tool will be distributed to interested parties and organizations, and the Ushahidi team will provide technical customizations and support as needed.

     IDRC

The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) is a Crown corporation created by the Parliament of Canada in 1970 to help developing countries use science and technology to find practical, long-term solutions to the social, economic, and environmental problems they face. Its supports is directed toward creating a local research community whose work will build healthier, more equitable, and more prosperous societies.

NOKIA RESEARCH 

Nokia Research Center (NRC) is chartered with exploring new frontiers for mobility, solving scientific challenges to transform the converging Internet and communications industries. Our teams are strategically located worldwide to collaborate with leading universities and research institutes in the mode of Open Innovation.

NRC has been exploring and developing mobile technologies for over 20 years. Our current research focuses on the areas of rich context modeling, user interface, high performance mobile platforms, and cognitive radio. 

This website provides a window to our activities, allowing us to share some of our more recent ideas and experiences with other researchers. We invite you to browse and contact us for further dialog.

There are 500 of us in NRC teams in Europe, Asia, Africa and North America. We have a variety of personal and technical backgrounds, but we are all researching topics related to the future of mobility in the merging physical and digital worlds.

NRC is a part of Nokia’s Corporate Development Office.

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