Success Stories in the Use of Information and Communication Technologies for Agricultural Research and Technological Innovation in Latin America and the Caribbean

...6 projects from the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) that use information and communication technology (ICT) in agriculture. The cases show how these tools have made it possible to work in a network that facilitates the organisation, dissemination, and exchange of information, and that builds capacity...

ICT Update Issue 49, June 2009: Livelihoods

...a bimonthly web magazine featuring the use of ICT in agriculture in the African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) regions. The June 2009 issue features the role of ICT in livelihoods including: feedback from farmers, mobile data collection, tests of new information technologies through listening groups, local language assistance...

Amazon Conservation Team Project with Surui Indians and Google Earth

...an indigenous village in Brazil joining with US-based Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) and Google Earth to protect their 600,000-acre reserve from illegal miners and loggers. Members of the Surui tribe hope to raise global awareness about the destruction of the Amazon's rain forest while allowing them to monitor the activities of those infringing upon their land rights...

Geo-bombing: YouTube and Google Earth

...one of the techniques used in drawing attention to human rights issues by associating them with specific locations and providing visual and audio evidence or testimony disseminated through YouTube videos via Google mapping applications like Google Maps and Google Earth...