The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Centre for Development Informatics (CDI) at the University of Manchester released a case study prepared by Dr. Blane Harvey and Dr. Tom Mitchell entitled “ICT-Enabled Knowledge Sharing in North-South Partnerships: Lessons from the AfricaAdapt Network.” The AfricaAdapt Network is a knowledge-sharing network on climate change adaptation in [...]
It’s stacked against them. Climate change is impacting developing countries in a real way, disrupting ancestral patterns used by the rural poor for farming, fishing, and daily life. On top of this, women and men experience climate change differently as gender inequalities worsen women’s coping. Women traditional are responsible for the tasks most likely to [...]
Power generation accounts for about one-quarter of global carbon emissions, a major cause of global warming. CARMA (Carbon Monitoring for Action) was created to inventory and monitor this massive output to “equip individuals with the information they need to forge a cleaner, low-carbon future.” There are over 50,000 power plants and 4,000 power companies worldwide [...]
How should we engage youth in discussing climate change and how it affects our lives? Climate EduXchange, a partnership between TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute) and Dell Inc, wishes to do just that in India. TERI has for a long time been involved in educating youth on environmental issues through its Youth Education [...]
How can mobile phones address issues raised by a changing climate? A study by Shrandha Giri and Yuwan Malakar of the University of Manchester with support of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) looks at a successful campaign in Nepal that takes advantage of the widespread usage of mobile phones. Greater variation in precipitation, higher [...]
How can ICTs be used to combat climate change? Stan Karanasios’s paper entitled “New & Emergent ICTs and Climate Change in Developing Countries” outlines emerging ICTs in 3 steps: monitoring of climate change and the environment disaster management climate change adaptation Excerpts from the paper outline uses of ICTs for climate change: Monitoring of climate [...]
Mexico’s bouquet of distinct ecosystems features an assorted variety of species, making the country one of the most biologically diverse in the world. The gem of Mexico’s ecological abundance is in great danger due to the forces of climate change. The country’s coastal regions risk destruction from tropical storms. Other problems include heavy rains that [...]
The Sustainability Director of Ericsson, Matilda Gennevi Gustafsson stated at the just ended United Nations COP17 Climate Change Conference that “In order to meet the needs of the 9 billion people estimated to populate the world by 2050, there must be a shift from incremental to transformative solutions to solve climate change. The opportunity for [...]
As the United Nations COP17 Climate Change Conference wraps up today after two weeks of intense meetings and negotiations among world leaders, ICTs have frequently surfaced as significant in helping solve the global climate change problem. While the task of positioning the role of ICTs within climate change negotiations is challenging, groups like the newly [...]
The World Bank wants its much vaunted Open Data initiative to help mitigate challenges brought about by climate change. The Bank’s special envoy for climate change Andrew Steer launched the “Apps for Climate” competition last Friday at COP 17 in Durban. Steer said the competition will encourage software developers to use open data to create [...]
