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"You must help"

This article ponders the effects cell phones could have on giving a direct voice to the too-often-forgotton, after a text message from a Somali refugee camp in Kenya to the comfort of the London office of the UN World Food Programme brought the recent cutting of rations to hungry people into sharp focus. (Greg Barrow, Guardian, 20 June 2006)

http://society.guardian.co.uk/aid/comment/0,,1801779,00.html

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Digital Dividends for the Poor: ICT for Poverty Reduction in Asia (pdf)

By Stuart Mathison, The Foundation for Development Cooperation (March 2003). This paper discusses the role of ICTs in poverty reduction. It is organised into three sections. The first section focuses on poverty in Asia. The discussion begins by highlighting the important distinction between 'development' and 'poverty reduction'. The UNDP's Human Poverty Index is used as the basis for analysing poverty in Asia. Section two concludes with analysis of Best Practices in ICT for Poverty Reduction. The third section of this paper is a number of ICT for Poverty Reduction case studies, organised generally according to the categories of the Millennium Development Goals. Each case study describes the particular application of ICT and discusses targeting the poor, outreach, expandability/replicability, and sustainability.

http://www.globalknowledge.org/gkps_portal/index.cfm?menuid=269&parentid=179

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Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet Society

The Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet Society serves the Society's purposes by serving the interests of the global Internet community through its presence in the Pacific Islands. It focuses on local issues and developments, and as an impartial advisor to governments and the public on matters of significant interest to Pacific Island people.

http://www.picisoc.org

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"Sustainability at the speed of light"

WWF, the conservation organization has launched a new publication that shows how Information and Communication Technology (ICT) could play a positive role in achieving sustainable development. The WWF report, Sustainability at the Speed of Light, underlines how ICT - which can be defined as any product or system that communicates, stores, and process information - may have a positive impact on human activities if properly managed.

http://assets.panda.org/downloads/wwf_ic_1.pdf

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"The First Mile of Connectivity"

"The first mile of connectivity" (D. Richardson and L. Paisley, eds., FAO 1998, 340pp) Advancing telecommunications for rural development through participatory communication.

http://www.fao.org/documents/show_cdr.asp?url_file=/docrep/x0295e/x0295e00.htm

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Advocacy Georgia

Virtual resource center for non-governmental organizations in support of advocacy efforts in Georgia, NIS: design and implementation of the advocacy campaigns; NGO news; weekly advocacy bulletin; web representation of the USAID-funded Citizens Advocate! Program, implemented by Save the Children and a coalition of Georgian NGOs.

http://www.advocacy.ge

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APCNews

Civil society's monthly e-bulletin on strategic uses of the Internet to promote social justice and equality. From the APC, an International online community on peace, human rights, development and the environment since 1990. The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) is an international network of civil society organisations dedicated to empowering and supporting groups and individuals working for peace, human rights, development and protection of the environment, through the strategic use of information and communication technologies (ICTs), including the Internet.

http://lists.apc.org/mailman/listinfo/apcnews

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Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme

The Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme (APDIP) is an initiative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) that aims to promote the development and application of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for poverty alleviation and sustainable human development in the Asia-Pacific region. It does so through three core programme areas, namely: Policy Development and Dialogue, Access, Content Development and Knowledge Management APDIP delivers on its objectives through activities that involve awareness raising and advocacy, building capacities, promoting ICT policies and dialogue, promoting equitable access to tools and technologies, knowledge sharing, and networking. Strategic public-private sector partnerships and opportunities for technical cooperation among developing countries (TCDC) are the key building blocks in implementing each programme activity.

http://www.apdip.net

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Assessing International Fiscal and Monetary Transparency

The IMF has been leading efforts to develop and implement Codes of Monetary and Fiscal Transparency. Such Codes aim to increase disclosure of public sector information on the Internet-representing a type of "e-transparency." Do such codes and increased Internet-based public sector information achieve their objectives? Much e-government theory sees electronic presence and e-transparency as a first step toward transformationary e-government. Yet, e-transparency itself represents a transformation in e-government. This paper will first describe the results of a private-sector based assessment of fiscal and monetary transparency and report cross-country ratings. Second, it will describe a new method of assessment which emphasizes the role of knowledge management and the critical role played by assessment project design. Lastly, this paper will discuss the extent to which such e-government efforts aimed at greater transparency achieve broader objectives -- such as increased trust, predictability, credibility, oversight, and political accountability in the public sector. The lessons in this paper are applicable to governments engaged in promoting and assessing transparency as well as corporations. (Submitted by Bryane Michael)

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat1663/Publications/Papers/Soros%20Policy%20E-Govt.pdf

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Beyond Tools: Technology as a feminist agenda

This srticle argues strongly for a feminist agenda on technology. Drawing on the discussions at the AWID Forum, she shows how within the framework of women's rights technology is a determining factor in women's sexuality, representation and exploitation, and has to be seen as one more facet of violence against women. She calls on the feminist movement to engage technologies as a site of feminist political struggle.(Chat Garcia Ramilo, Development, 2006)

http://www.palgrave-journals.com/development/journal/v49/n1/full/1100230a.html

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Building a Learning Society in El Salvador

Conectándonos al Futuro de El Salvador was initiated by the Government of El Salvador, with the support of the World Bank, in order to define a development strategy based on the creation of information and knowledge, as well as on the productive and participatory use of these resources.

http://www.conectando.org.sv/English/

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Building e-Governance for Development: A Framework for National and Donor Action

Information and communication technologies have a valuable potential to help meet good governance goals in developing countries. Yet that potential remains largely untapped to date. Why? Because of poor human, organisational and technological infrastructure and because of the inappropriate approaches taken by donors, vendors and governments. This paper hopes to point the way forward by describing the contents of a National e-Governance Initiative (NeGI) for developing countries that would address the problems of the past and would grasp the opportunities provided for governance by the new connectivity.

http://idpm.man.ac.uk/idpm/igov12abs.htm

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Bytes for all

A Voluntary Online Initiative from South Asia with an email list you can subscribe to.

http://www.bytesforall.org

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Case study of the Satellife Handheld Project in Africa

The goal of the SATELLIFE PDA Project was to demonstrate the viability of handheld computers -- also called Personal Digital Assistants or PDAs -- for addressing the digital divide among health professionals working in Africa.

http://www.bridges.org/case_studies/351

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Case study on Busy Internet of Ghana

BusyInternet (BI) Accra is the largest technology incubator in Africa. It provides businesses and the public with affordable, state-of-the-art information and communication technology (ICT) services, customer service, and a social environment that promotes technology use

http://www.bridges.org/case_studies/127

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Case study on Geekcorps Ghana

Geekcorps Ghana matches highly skilled technology volunteers from the developed world with small and medium-sized businesses in Accra, Ghana. Volunteers spend between three to four months on-site where they help to boost private companies by transferring technology skills and helping them to grow.

http://www.bridges.org/case_studies/140

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Case study on the Compliance Service

Dr. David Green's Compliance Service uses the Short Message Service (SMS) to alert tuberculosis (TB) patients to take their medication. The initiative has led to a significant increase in the recovery rate of patients and could lead to savings for healthcare authorities.

http://www.bridges.org/case_studies/137

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Chennai Statement on Up-scaling Pro-Poor ICT Policies and Practices [PDF]

The Chennai Statement is the key recommendations and conclusions generated in a workshop hosted by the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) in Chennai in November 2004. Participants in the workshop reviewed Asian and African experiences of the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for poverty reduction.

http://www.gersterconsulting.ch/docs/Chennai_statement.pdf

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Civil society calls for new governance to make the Internet accessible to Africans

The Kigali statement by African civil society delegates, academics, researchers, consumer interest groups and internet service providers is made in light of the Connect Africa Summit which took place on the 29-30 October.(alternatives, 28/10/2007)

http://www.alternatives.ca/article3079.html

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Common Dreams

Founded in 1997, we are committed to being on the cutting-edge of using the internet as a political organizing tool - and creating new models for internet activism.

http://www.commondreams.org/

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CommunityNet Aotearoa: Web Tip of the Month

The aim of this website is to promote excellence in electronic publishing for and by tangata whenua and community organisations. Websites featured demonstrate effective use of Internet technology, including good navigation, accessible design, quality content and opportunities for interaction.

http://www.community.net.nz/Links/MonthlySite/

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Computers in secondary schools in developing countries: An analysis of costs

This research is mainly concerned with the costs of computers in schools in developing countries. It starts with a brief overview of the information revolution and its consequences. It then briefly examines some of the arguments for the use of computers in schools in developing countries, before reviewing previous work undertaken on the costs of such provision. An analysis of this literature indicates that the costs of equipment (hardware and software) may account for only 16-20% of the total cost of computer provision (excluding salaries) over five years.

http://www.schoolnetafrica.net/fileadmin/resources/Computers_in_Secondary_schools.pdf

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Connected Opportunities: Making a Difference with Women's ICT-Enabled and Based Enterprise

The criticality & efficacy of Information and Communication Technologies in facilitating and accelerating the process of reducing poverty across the globe is continuously growing. It has become a reality that without the usage of ICT's, a society will fall behind in the path of development. Much development work has been channeled into ICT projects and the development of ICT-enabled enterprises which are an effective component for ICT-based and enabled enterprises for women (New Delhi, India).

http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/Connected%20Opportunities.doc

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Crisis Communication & the Internet: Risk and Trust in a Global Media. By Hans Jeurgen Bucher.

Abstract: Risk is one of the main features of modern societies. With the Internet a new media has appeared: on the one hand this has increased the risk associated with information: free accessibility, interactivity, globality, connectivity of personal, economical, political and media communication have all led to a loss of journalistic control. On the other hand Internet-based communication has increased opportunities to secure information in a manner that has previously been unavailable. This leads to the question: does the Internet increase or decrease the risk of a communication breakdown in a crisis? It has been demonstrated that trust is one of the features in complex modern societies which compensates for risk. So does the Internet increase trust in global crisis communication? The questions concerning the interrelation of risk, trust and crisis communication are seen in a much broader context: does Internet communication force a structural transformation of the public sphere?

http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_4/bucher/

(Added: Tue Jul 02 2002   Modified: Mon Aug 28 2006   Hits: 236)

D-Lib Magazine: Digital Technologies and Indigenous Communities.

This is a special issue of D-Lib Magazine on the theme of Digital Technologies and Indigenous Communities. There are four full-length articles, a guest editorial by Daniel E. Atkins and Maurita Peterson Holland, several smaller features in D-Lib Magazine's 'In Brief' column, excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in 'Clips and Pointers'. The Featured Collection for March is the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) web site.

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march02/03contents.html

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