Dadamac

Collaboration, Education, Livelihoods and Development in a Changing World

Hardware and Software

There are many references to hardware and software at dadamac.net - but the references are scattered around. Hence this section of the website. (designed to point to all the stories that relate to particular pieces of hardware and software, when it is complete).

For a start (December 2010) we will make a list of what we have used, gradually we will add more details. You can  contact us for more details of anything this is of particular interest.

The list gives an idea of what is (or has been) important to us - mostly for UK-Africa collaboration, but also some in use at Fantsuam for education, training and development purposes:

  • Emails (on own computers and in African cyber cafes)
  • Instant messaging (various)
  • Emailing groups (yahoo and google)
  • Wikis (our own and other people's)
  • Moodle (more for administration than course presentation)
  • Drupal - for dadamac.net
  • Chat rooms and text based online conferencing
  • Skype audio and video
  • Audio-graphic conferencing / webinars
  • Google docs and spreadsheets
  • Open office
  • Other software in use at Fantusam to be added later
  • Computers - PCs and laptops (new and refurbished)
  • Everything that Zittnet provides at Fantsuam to enable connectivity
  • Phones (including smart phones since 2008)
  • Cameras

We may also add details of other hardware - not just digital - related to getting online (appropriate power) and that may spill over into other appropriate technology equipment.

Hardware and Software Technology

 JAWS (an acronym for Job Access With Speech) is " a screen reader, a software program for...
Dadamac has been using Skyped typed conversations for their weekly UK-Nigeria Meetings since 2009....
 2010 Fantsuam is currently testing another open source e-learning platform called Dokeos. It...
Dadamac has been using Yahoo instant messaging as a means of communication with rural communities...
 Microfinance Open Source Solution (MIFOS) software. Fantsuam Foundation have been looking to...
At the weekly UK - Nigeria online team meetings we were informed that Linux is a key part of the...
At the weekly UK - Nigeria online team meetings we learned from John, a trainer, that most of...