UNCDF, Access Agriculture join Dgroups

After the 3 organizations that joined earlier in 2014, the year 2014 closes with another good news for Dgroups. Two new organizations have just formalized their membership and have joined the Dgroups Foundation. The United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) is the UN’s capital investment agency for the world’s 48 least developed countries. Specifically: UNCDF provides seed capital – …

Dgroups leaflet in French, Spanish and Portuguese

We are delighted to announce the availability of our new introductory leaflet in 4 languages here: English [download  pdf] French [download  pdf Spanish [download  pdf] Portuguese [download  pdf] Please feel free to download and distribute these leaflets to your networks and contacts, and to print them out for distribution at meetings and conferences. The Dgroups Partnership is …

Google SMS version of Gmail in Africa – New opportunities for Dgroups users

I am excited to read the following news item on the BBC website (with thanks to Giacomo Rambaldi and Web2ForDev discussion list on Dgroups). Google launch SMS version of Gmail in Africa: Google has launched a text message-based version of its email service targeted at users in Africa. Gmail SMS can run on so-called “dumb phones” …