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R&D: Robots and Development
The Samfya Resource Centre is a telecentre (Internet cafe) run by young women in Samfya, Zambia for other local young women – a component of Camfed’s “CAMA” network. As part of our ongoing support for the Samfya Resource Centre, read more about why we have sent them robots...
Technology Decisions in Organisations Great and Small
Aptivate works across this spectrum of different sized organisations. We try to bring the breadth of our knowledge, skills and experience to bear when working with everyone from communities in rural Zambia, to NGOs in the UK, international agencies in Europe and governments across Africa. Tariq writes more on our blog about some of the challenges development organisations face trying to successfully adopt new technologies.
Simulating Low Bandwidths: Make Sure Your Apps Work in The Field
We build online software for people in the international development sector. Our users are in places where internet connections are slow and unreliable – we need to make sure our tools work for them. Read more about how to make sure your apps work in the field.
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Our Expertise
- Power
- Low cost, low power, low carbon computing in all environments; community deployment and training.
- Data
- Mobile data collection, knowledge management, monitoring and evaluation, analysis and reporting.
- Bandwidth
- Low bandwidth communications, bandwidth management and optimisation, syncing data.
- People
- Participation is development: we build capacity and work with users to develop technology.
• We use iterative, agile and participatory methodologies.
• We build web, database and mobile applications.
• We work with agencies, organisations and local communities.
• We advise on strategy, policy, implementation and procurement.
How to get involved
Technical skills? Web Developer? Researcher? Graphic designer? Find our more about volunteering opportunities.