IICD Seeks Reporters: What Consumer Tech Can Assist Development?

On January 10-13, one of the most important consumer electronic events of the year takes place in Las Vegas: CES. At this event new consumer technology is shown. In the past for instance, this event premiered the Video Cassette Recorder (1970), the CD (1981), the Radio Data System (1993) and the Blu-ray disc (2003). And now we need your help!

At IICD our motto is that ICT for development should not be about technology, but about people. But that doesn’t mean technology is not important. That’s why we are asking for your written contribution.

What do we need from you:

- Surf some of the resources available during the CES for news and updates. You could for instance see updates on :

Techradar, Geekbeat TV, Mashable or CES’s own website

- Find: Find products that you think could be useful or will be useful in a development setting

- Write: Write down the name of the product and in maximum 200 words describe why and how this could be used (in for instance rural areas) and who will benefit from this (farmers/teachers/doctors etc.).

- Send: send your contribution to jjessurun(at)iicd.org

- Or: tweet your findings to @iicd (if you’re more of a 140 characters type of person)

That’s great, but what’s in it for me?

You will be credited an mentioned as a reporter in an article on our website  as our reporter on our social media channels and in, reaching thousands of people and the best reporter wins an IICD goodie bag and a mention in IICD’s brand new videocast.

Hope to hear from all of you soon. Cheers, IICD