The News Roundup is Back!

Welcome to the reincarnation of the NDItech News and Notes Roundup. We’ve missed you - you don’t write, you don’t call, you don’t fax - but we’ve decided to give you another chance anyway. The roundup is a diverse mix of recent news stories, blog posts, and thought pieces covering the worlds of ICT, popular tech, and technology for democracy (tech4dem ftw). If you have any suggestions or ideas or news sources that might make this weekly roundup more interesting to you, feel free to give us a holler at [email protected].

Without further ado, here are this week’s roundup links:

• USAID-NetHope Release Report on Role of ICT in Liberian Ebola Response

• IWatch Trains Tunisian Election Observers Online

• Can the “Panic Button” App Protect Activists and Prevent Sexual Violence?

• 7 Key Insights in Using ICT to Improve Ebola Response

• Facebook sets up 'dark web' link to access network via Tor

• Millions of websites hit by Drupal hack attack. Um, yep, us too.

• Google Retools Its Flu Prediction Engine — After Getting It Wrong

• Why Haven’t Mobiles Solved the Problem of Ebola Contact Tracing Yet?

• Are Public Private Partnerships Helping to Narrow the Broadband Gap?

• Interview on Gates Foundation’s Mobile Payments Challenge

• New mHealth Project Helping to Save Lives in Cameroon

• Violence Forecasting Model Offering Hope to Peacekeepers

• USAID Announced an Open Data Policy

• 5 Key Questions that the Data Revolution Should Be Asking

• Fighting Ebola, One Data Entry at a Time

• The SciDev Net Podcast Talks Biobanks and ‘Flying Donkey’ Drones

• South Africa’s Tech Future: Building Smart Cities with ICT Innovation