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- D-Lib Magazine: Digital Technologies and Indigenous Communities.
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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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- DEVELOPMENT INFORMATICS: WORKING PAPERS
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From the Institute for Development Policy and Management (University of Manchester). Downloadable files covering a range of information management and development issues and topics.
http://idpm.man.ac.uk/idpm/idpm_dp.htm#devinf_wp
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- Digital Governance Initiative: egovernance for developing countries
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Digital Governance Initiative researches and propagates innovative electronic governance / egovernance/ e-democracy models in developing and in-transition countries. These models are based on strategic application of knowledge and ICT in the governance sphere. To join the Digital Governance Network, send a blank email to: digitalgovernance-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
http://www.digitalgovernance.org
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- Digital Governance Models: moving towards good governance in developing countries [PDF]
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By Vikas Nath1, Inlaks Fellow (LSE) Policy Analyst, UNDP. This paper provides an insight into how digital governance models are facilitating the transformation of governance in developing countries to more responsive and people-led governance structures. The growing use of information and communication technology (ICT) is catalysing the formation of knowledge societies, and thus providing greater avenues to people to participate in their own development process.
http://www.innovation.cc/volumes-issues/nath-digital.pdf
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- Digital Opportunity Channel
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Digital Opportunity Channel is a joint endeavour of OneWorld and the Digital Divide Network. By joining hands, the two organisations seek to bring in a global perspective to the discussion over ICTs and the digital divide. ICTs by themselves cannot be drivers of social transformation; they cannot substitute for good governance, economic reform or social policies. But they can create new employment opportunities, increase efficiency and productivity, and supplement development efforts. ICTs also widen civic participation, and support welfare services. Healthcare, education services, disaster assistance and environmental protection, for instance, can be delivered and used more efficiently through ICTs. Above all, ICTs can be valuable tools for people in overcoming development obstacles.
http://www.digitalopportunity.org
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- Digital Partners
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Digital Partners, a Seattle-based nonprofit institute, taps the power of the digital economy to develop market-based solutions that benefit the world's poor. With support from the Kellogg Foundation, Open Society Institute, and individual contributors, Digital Partners is working to cultivate a world in which all men, women, and youths are able to reap the benefits of the Digital Revolution to improve the quality of their lives.
http://www.digitalpartners.org/
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- e Development Exchange
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The "e Development Exchange" is a project coordinated by the University of Manchester's Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM). The project is funded and managed by the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) as part of the UK Department for International Development's (DFID) "Building Digital Opportunities" programme. This website has two main subjects: eGovernment for Development - Aims to help public officials, consultants, and others in developing/transitional economies seeking information and assistance with e-government initiatives. The project provides a source of new information that is of direct value to e-government practitioners, enabling them to make e-government more effective; and, eCommerce for Development Aims to help two groups in developing countries. First, small enterprises which are or can be directly involved in e-commerce; enabling them to undertake developmentally-relevant e-commerce. Second, small enterprise support agencies; enabling them to facilitate e-commerce in small enterprises.
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- E-Commerce At The Grass Roots: Implications Of A "Wired" Citizenry In Developing Nations
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30 June 2000 Prepared for the National Intelligence Council. By Booz-Allen & Hamilton (consultants). The widespread availability of Internet access is certain to have significant effects on the developing world, most of them positive. Economics and politics depend completely on the transmission or exchange of information. The introduction of a major new information medium that ultimately reaches almost universally down to the local level will have a profound effect on local economic and political activity. We are seeing this phenomenon now in the developed countries. We will begin soon to see the effects of Internet availability in the developing world as well.
http://www.cia.gov/nic/research_grassroots.html
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- e-gov
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e-gov is a collaborative project between Te Kaihau Ltd, a Wellington-based innovation and organisation development consultancy working largely in the public and tertiary education sectors, and Spiral Web Design Ltd, also Wellington-based - a web systems design company. e-gov has a full range of capabilities to produce outstandingly successful web sites and related internet functions.
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- eGovernment Handbook for Developing Countries
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A Project of infoDev and The Center for Democracy & Technology. E-government is not a tool limited to the richer countries. Indeed, some of the most innovative uses of the Internet in governance are appearing in the developing world, as ICTs are being used to streamline government and connect it more closely with the people it is supposed to serve. Our goal in creating this handbook is to offer concrete guidance to government officials and others in the developing world, presenting for the first time a comprehensive index of e-government models and resources, focused on success stories in the developing world. This handbook presents a roadmap - in fact, a compilation of roadmaps - for policymakers considering electronic government as a mechanism for reform. We do not seek to sell e-government. Other reports and papers have outlined the philosophy, the benefits and the general methodologies of e-government. Here, using specific examples, we show how it can be done, with a healthy respect for the realities and challenges that must be faced.
http://www.infodev.org/en/Publication.16.html
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- Eldis ICT for Development Resource Guide
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Hosts all of the news and documents sent on these reporters and much more. Resources are grouped by theme, e.g. ICTs and gender, education, Telecentres etc.
http://www.eldis.org/ict/index.htm
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- Electronic commerce strategies for development (pdf)
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United Nations Conference on Trade and Development background paper. A fast-growing number of governments and international institutions are designing "e-strategies" for harnessing information and communications technologies (ICT) to promote economic and social development. In order for these efforts to succeed, developing countries must generate and exploit new economic opportunities through the adoption of e-business practices. This expert meeting is expected to contribute to the identification of the policy areas in which action at the national and international levels is needed. It will also examine the specific measures that are most likely to create an enabling environment for e-commerce in developing countries and will assess existing experiences in this regard. On the basis of the results of previous work carried out by UNCTAD in the field of ecommerce and development, and of a survey of selected countries that have adopted an e-strategy, this paper identifies the following key areas that developing countries need to consider in their e-strategies: awareness building, training and education; access and infrastructure; legal and regulatory reform; sector-specific policies to promote e-business; and e-government. Some frequently employed measures in each of these areas are summarized for discussion by the experts.
http://www.unctad.org/en/docs/c3em15d2.en.pdf
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- Electronic Frontier Foundation
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) was created to defend our rights to think, speak, and share our ideas, thoughts, and needs using new technologies, such as the Internet and the World Wide Web. EFF is the first to identify threats to our basic rights online and to advocate on behalf of free expression in the digital age.
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- Equal Access
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Equal Access is an international not-for-profit organization based in San Francisco, California. Equal Access is dedicated to delivering readily usable information and education to under-served regions, primarily in Asia. Communities in these regions are in vital need of information and education for their development on a broad range of issues, including HIV/AIDS Prevention, Micro Enterprise, Public Health, Gender Equality, Literacy, Early Childhood Development, Conflict Resolution, Sustainable Agriculture, Landmine Education, and Environmental Education.
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- Fibre for Africa
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This web site has been put together to provide basic information about international bandwidth in Africa, its costs and the existence of monopoly access to it. Bandwidth is the means through which Africa as a continent communicates with itself and the rest of the world. Those who have put the site together believe that the high costs of international bandwidth on the continent are an obstacle to the its social and economic development.
http://www.fibreforafrica.net/
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- Financing ICTs for Development: Efforts of DAC Members Review of Recent Trends of ODA and its Contribution [PDF]
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OECD Development Assistance Committee Report to the UN Task Force on Financial Mechanisms for ICT for Development (TFFM). The report consists of a policy-oriented analysis of donor support for ICTD, with particular attention to recent trends in bilateral Official Development Assistance (ODA) commitments for ICT infrastructure as well as other donor ICT assistance. It also includes abundance of statistical charts, highlights and annexes which give detailed background information and data.
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/41/45/34410597.pdf
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- Geekcorps
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Geekcorps is a US-based, non-profit organization that places international technical volunteers in developing nations to contribute to ICT projects while transferring the technical skills required to achieve long-term stability. Ultimately we strive to cross-pollinate developing nations with the skills needed to maximize the benefits of modern telecommunications. Our current applicant database contains more than 1600 technical specialists willing to share their talents and experience in developing nations. In all cases, we carefully match applicants with projects based on the skills that are needed based on our assessments and the scopes of work provided by partner businesses. Much of our past work has been performed in conjunction with ICT SME's, but we have also contributed directly to government projects and other organizations while retaining the skills-transfer element of our programs.
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- Geeking in the Third World
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by Richard Koman 05/12/2003 In 1993, Ethan Zuckerman was a Fulbright scholar working in the West African nation of Ghana. He was amazed that virtually no one in the country had Internet access: "There was, in the whole country, I think, one person who was regularly online, and he was getting online by dialing AOL in the U.K., and checking email once a week," Ethan says. After the Fulbright, Ethan returned to the U.S. and became tech employee ... (After) returning to Ghana, he was "thrilled to discover there was a nascent Internet revolution going on, and the main thing holding it back was the absence of experienced IT talent within the country. Anyone who wanted to set up, say, an e-commerce business was going to hit some technical hurdles pretty quickly." Thus was born the idea for Geekcorps, a volunteer organization dedicated to helping developing nations meet their IT needs. By working with companies in developing nations, First World geeks can help countries create sustainable IT cultures.
http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/news/ethan_0503.html
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- Global Diffusion of the Internet (GDI): Studies and Publications
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A list of reports, many online, on how the Internet has diffused throughout the world.
http://mosaic.unomaha.edu/Pages/GDI_Publications.html
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- Global Knowledge Partnership: Success Stories, Good Practices & Lessons Learned
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The Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) is the world's first global multistakeholder partnership in ICT for development (ICT4D). This page provides access to success stories relating to ICT and development.
http://www.globalknowledge.org/gkps_portal/index.cfm?menuid=114
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- Global Netcorps
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Global NetCorps is a simple idea which capitalizes on two great phenomena of our time: Volunteering and new Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs). By mobilizing volunteers with ICT skills to work with organizations in need of technical support and training, NetCorps initiatives around the world help to decrease the information gap between the north and the south, and within individual countries.
http://www.netcorps-cyberjeunes.org
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- Governance in Africa - The Role for Information and Communication Technologies
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This 30-page paper explores the challenges of good governance in Africa and focuses on the role that information and communication technologies (ICTs) can play in improving governance. (AfDB, 2007)
http://www.afdb.org/pls/portal/docs/PAGE/ADB_ADMIN_PG/DOCUMENTS/ECONOMICSANDRESEARCH/ERP-65.PDF
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- Groundspring Learning Center
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The Groundspring Learning Center is a collection of the best learning materials, regularly updated, to help non-profits get the most out of their online fundraising, communications and advocacy strategies.
http://www.groundspring.org/learningcenter/
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- Homepage: John Daly
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This website has links to more than 60 resources on information and communications technology, and science and technology for developing nations. It also has biographical information on its editor.
http://www.geocities.com/stconsultant/
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- How Information and Communications Technologies Can Support Education for Sustainable Development
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As part of IISD's involvement with Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth and the UNESCO Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, this paper presents a brief history, and identifies current uses and trends for deploying ICTs, primarily in the formal Kindergarten to Grade 12 education system, with a focus on the online environment(Leslie Paas,IISD, January 2008).
http://www.iisd.org/pdf/2008/ict_education_sd_trends.pdf
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