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Scientific Animations Without Borders (SAWBO) is a university based program. SAWBO transforms extension information on relevant topics such as agriculture, disease and women's empowerment, into 2D, 2.5D and 3D animations, which are then voice overlaid into a diversity of languages from around the...
- Also available in:
- Kiswahili (sw)
- Français (fr)
- Español (es)
- English (en)
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Smallholder households, estimated at about 500 million globally in low- and middle-income countries, are the largest segment by livelihood of those living under $2 a day. Traditionally excluded from formal financial services, digital financial services represent an opportunity to deepen financial...
- USAID Feed the Future - Digitizing the agricultural value chain Why Where How
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Azuri has used mobile technology to turn a development challenge into a business challenge through its Azuri solar home systems, which allow users to pay for solar power on a pay-as-you-gobasis, just like they dofor their phones and kerosene. This provides clean, safe renewable power to families...
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Android / iOS The "MyWorldWeather" is the mobile application of the "World Weather Information Service", supporting the major iPhone and Android platforms. Equipped with location-based technology to detect a user's locality, the application can automatically display the latest official weather...
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There are 500 million smallholder farmers in the world, most of whom live on less than $1 a day. Small-scale farmers are highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change and they face many challenges including lack of access to traditional markets, agricultural inputs and finance. Every day...
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Mobile phonesare a valuable communication tool with many applications in development, with benefits forpublic healthandlivelihoodsas well as in personalcommunication. Especially text message services are an important service used in developing countries
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GPS Field Area Measure useful as map measurement tool for outdoor activities, sports, range finder applications, bike tour planning, or run tour planning, explore golf area, land survey, golf distance meter, field pasture area measure, garden and farm work and planning, area records,...
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Canopeo is a rapid and accurate green canopy cover measurement tool. Use this app to quantify the percent canopy cover of live green vegetation for any agricultural crop, turf, or grassland based on downward-facing photos taken with your mobile device.
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BioLeaf - Foliar Analysis identifies automatically the injured leaf regions caused by insect herbivory and then estimates the defoliation percentage related to the total area by using images either captured from the phone or loaded from the photo gallery.