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Live in the Seattle metropolitan area? Think about spending a day or part of a day helping us assemble Talking Books that will serve thousands of people with critical information on health, education and best practices in agriculture.
We would like to thank each of the volunteers who participated in the November, December and January parties, including Mark Huck, Forrest Carman, Melissa Murray, Jennifer Handley, Melissa Hauf, Arthur Tao, Matt Nichols, Krysta Strasbaugh, Trina Gorman, Maria Bianchi, Val Wells, Emily Rodawalt, and Cliodhna Dill.
Thank you also to a contingent of CityYear volunteers, including Autumn Martin, John Wolfe, Malia Makowski, Cori Hyde, Andrew McGrath, Alie MacWilliams, Grace Dwomoh, Kate Harrison, Rebeca Juarez, Anessa Amerem, and Denise Taylor.
The Talking Book assembly parties are held in Literacy Bridge’s Seattle office.
If you would like to participate in an upcoming party, please contact lidija@literacybridge.org. Our next one will be held on February 19, 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
by Cliff Schmidt
I was hosted in Washington, D.C. last month by the Agricultural Technology Adoption Initiative (ATAI) so I could participate in a workshop that brought together development practitioners and academic researchers to share ideas, identify new joint projects, and learn about funding opportunities.
Other invited participants include economists from MIT, UC Berkeley, Yale and a handful of other U.S. universities, plus senior staff from governments, NGOs, multi-laterals, the CGs, foundations, and other agencies with agriculture-for-development programs.
ATAI is a research program to improve appropriate adoption of proven agricultural technology—specifically for technologies that promise to dramatically improve the welfare of small-scale farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa. The program is jointly managed by the Jameel Poverty Action Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Center of Evaluation for Global Action at the University of California, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Cliff Schmidt reflects on Lessons Out Loud in a feature article about the Talking Book for the February 2011 issue of ICT Update, a bi-monthly magazine and website which share stories that show how technology can help the development process in rural areas of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. ICT Update is published in French and English and distributed worldwide by CTA (Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation), which was established in 1984 through funding from the European Union (EU), an economic and political union of 27 member states which are located primarily in Europe.
In November 2009, Cliff was among the 26 international experts invited to CTA’s ICT Observatory, which explored the use of “mobile services” for agricultural and rural development. The four-day think tank session provided CTA with information on how to promote the adoption and dissemination among EU’s development partners and agents of appropriate policies, and strategies for service delivery using mobile hardware and local wireless connectivity.
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