Sander van Hooft

“We’ll clean up,” the manager said. The next day, I returned and saw a pile of broken chairs being loaded on a truck. “Good, now all that mess is gone and we can move around the office more efficiently from now on,” was my first thought.

It already seems like ages ago, but when I was running a project in an Ethiopian government organization last year, I seemed to stumble upon a broken (and very old!) chair around every corner. As I later was told by the same manager, the chairs were not thrown away, but auctioned. » Read the rest of this entry «

During a study project in Gondar, Ethiopia, it came to my understanding that the registration of land is a national issue receiving many attention in politics. » Read the rest of this entry «

While working on a project in Ethiopia as part of my study programme, I discovered the large potentials of ICT4D. I will post more about this topic, but before I continue babbling on… what exactly is it? » Read the rest of this entry «

Yes, I did try to start blogging before. But no, unfortunately I was not that much inspired to spend my time writing frequently. However, the last period just turned out to be one of huge inspiration.

While finishing my study Information Science at the Radboud University of Nijmegen (that’s the Netherlands), I am coming across very diverse fields of expertise: ICT, management studies, development studies, anthropology. ICT as an enabler for development (ICT4D) seems to be more and more interesting. » Read the rest of this entry «