Tunde Adegoke
Tunde Adegoke
I write about technology, media and societies.
  • Twitter
  • Github
  • LinkedIn
Skip to content
  • Home
  • About
  • Top Talents

January 2018

There were 18 posts published in January 2018 (this is page 1 of 2).

Post navigation

Lesson/s from volunteering on Dr Kings Day

Dr King birthday was last week Monday, and I was involved in a volunteering experience at a middle school in Lafayette which is just a couple of miles away from Boulder. While this was my first time volunteering in the USA, it was not my first volunteer experience as I have many of it back […]

in articles | 601 Words | Comment

Culture, Technology, Development and the Underserved Societies

Cultural values and beliefs are passed on from one generation to another and as some of our readings for the class explained, modern technology alone will never be able to turn around an economy. Majority of the failed development projects in ICTD also have some knowledge to pass in these regards. Some of them documented […]

in articles | 314 Words | Comment

Reading comments on Youth and Development

 The most exciting readings for me are the reading on redefining education in the developing world, and this is mainly because I can relate more to it. When I was in my 3rd year in college, a colleague asked me a question that “what if we eventually finish this statistics degree, where do you think […]

in articles, Development | 438 Words | Comment

Book Review  “More than good intention”

At the harbor of the Marina del Rey in Los Angeles, the author was amazed at what he saw as some group of Buddhist monks paid for the day’s catching of the fishermen and set the fish free after some rituals. He was wondering why would they do such but then, his girlfriend told him […]

in Books, Development | 1,877 Words | Comment

What Works in Development – a Critical Look at Avaaj Otalo and its Relevancies in Kyrgyzstan

Agriculture is the primary source of income to the farmers who contributed to almost all economy of the people who live in the not easy to reach region. According to FAO[1], more than 3billion of the world population lives in the rural communities and these people, who are roughly 2.5billion derived their livelihood from agriculture. […]

in articles, Development | 981 Words | Comment

Reading comments on Power of Faith to Help End Extreme Poverty     

Having watched the World Bank “Power of Faith to Help End Extreme Poverty” with the questions and observations that come with it, I think the route of religion will be quite hard/tricky to follow. One of the panelists said religious organizations should be seen as a development partner who is more than a channel to […]

in articles, Development | 361 Words | Comment

A Report on Religion and Development

In the hear our voices – the poor on poverty video, the video was able to feature some poor people and the challenges that the video referred to as the reason why the world poor are still poor are as below; Insecurity Lack of opportunity and Powerlessness. As a part of the most critical observations […]

in articles, Development | 1,386 Words | Comment

Youth, Technology and Development; The Way to go – A Report on the 2017 World Bank Youth Summit

The event I went for was a two days event by the World Bank on “Youth Summit for Technology and Innovation for Impact”. The event featured many industry experts from both inside and outside of world Bank while it also runs different workshop in parallel depending on what the interest of the participants are. As […]

in articles, Development | 838 Words | Comment

Empathy: Can we Create Empathy Through Virtual Reality?

  Walking through the street of Denver on November 10th 2017 reminded me of a story of what happened to me in November 2016. I was walking on the same street and the 2016 story started coming to my mind of how I met one man whom I talked to. He said, “you speak good […]

in articles | 599 Words | Comment

Final Country Report on Kyrgyzstan

Introduction and Overview Kyrgyzstan which is also known as the Kyrgyz Republic is a landlocked country with mountainous terrain which is located in Central Asia. The nation’s official language is Russian, and it runs a unitary parliamentary system of government with a president and prime minister. The capital city of the country is Bishkek, and […]

in articles, Development | 3,894 Words | Comment

Kyrgyzstan Culture and Development Report

 The dominant group in Kyrgyzstan is the Kyrgyz despite the country having many ethnic groups to make up the country. According to Advantour, Kyrgyzstan culture takes its roots in antiquity. Its formation was largely influenced by the Turkic tribes that migrated in the early Middle Ages from the territory of Altay and East Turkestan[1]. Regarding […]

in articles, Development | 802 Words | Comment

ICT and Development in Kyrgyzstan

The ICT sector in Kyrgyzstan comprises of different bodies with each body saddled with varying responsibilities as deem fit by the government. One of such ICT body in the country is the council of ICT. The Council of ICT was endorsed by a decree of the Government of Kyrgyzstan in 2013 as a consultative and […]

in articles, Development | 720 Words | Comment

Post navigation

Archives

  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • May 2020
  • December 2018
  • October 2018
  • August 2018
  • January 2018
  • October 2017
  • September 2017

Meta

  • Log in
Independent Publisher empowered by WordPress