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 eGovernment Authority of the Kingdom of Bahrain
Country: Bahrain | Focus: Governance, E-government
The Kingdom of Bahrains eGovernment strategy is focused on ensuring the effective delivery of government services to citizens, residents, businesses and visitors (collectively, our customers). Our target is to be the leader in eGovernment in the GCC and at least 5th best in Asia by 2010. Our aim is....
Sector: Government

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 How Information Technology Can Enable 21st Century Schools
Country: United States | Focus: Education, ICT for improving educational systems
The United States has been focused on K-12 education reform for over two decades, with mixed results at best. One reason why progress has been slow is that the fundamental nature of pedagogy has largely been unchanged. Now in this decade, a small, but growing number of American high schools are usin....
Sector: Civil society

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 INSEAD: The Global Information Technology Report 2008-2009
Focus: ICT Policy and Strategy, National and regional e-strategies, Metrics and Stats, E-readiness, Indicators
Information and communication technologies (ICT) has proven to be a key enabler of socioeconomic progress and development, enhancing productivity and therefore economic growth, reducing poverty and improving living standards in many ways. ICT is increasingly revolutionizing production processes, ac....
Sector: Academia

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 The Cloud, the Crowd, and Public Policy, by Michael R. Nelson
Focus: Science, technology and innovation, Research and Development, ICT Policy and Strategy, New media, Social Interaction
A new age of more flexible, less expensive, and more secure computing will emerge soon if governments act wisely. The Internet is entering a new phase that represents a fundamental shift in how computing is done. This phase, called Cloud computing, includes activities such as Web 2.0, Web services,....
Sector: Academia

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 World Bank: Information and Communications for Development 2009: Extending Reach and Increasing Impact
Focus: Connectivity, Telecom infrastructure, Wireless technologies, Access, Entrepreneurship
Information and Communications for Development 2009: Extending Reach and Increasing Impact takes an in-depth look at how ICT, and particularly broadband and mobile, are impacting economic growth in developing countries. The data section includes at-a-glance tables for 150 economies of the latest ava....
Sector: International Organization

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 IDRC Youtube Channel
Focus: Knowledge Sharing
Videos about the work in the International Development Research Centre
Sector: Government

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 JODL: Towards a framework for the use of ICT in teacher training in Africa, by Tim Unwin
Country: Africa | Focus: Teachers Training
There is a gulf between the rhetoric of those advocating the use of ICT in education in Africa and the reality of classroom practice. This paper explores some of the reasons for this, and outlines a possible framework for the successful implementation of teacher training programmes that make advanta....
Sector: Academia

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 K-12 Computing Blueprint
Country: United States | Focus: Education, ICT for improving educational systems, Science, technology and innovation, Research and Development
Twenty-first century career skills demand the use of computers to be competitive in the global economy. While nearly all U.S. schools currently use computers, the demand to one-to-one access for all students is increasing exponentially. To ensure access to technology, leaders must a vision, enli....
Sector: Private Sector

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 Educational Technology Debate
Focus: Education, ICT for improving educational systems
The Educational Technology Debate (ETD) seeks to promote a substantive discussion of how low-cost information and communication technology (ICT) device initiatives for educational systems in developing countries are relevant to the very groups they purport to serve – the students, teachers, and thei....
Sector: International Organization

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 ictQatar White Paper: Integrated e-Government - June 2009
Country: Qatar | Focus: E-government
The Integrated E-Government Programme (i-Gov) is a government operated information and communication technology (ICT) project with the overall aim of integrating all the services provided by the various agencies of the government of Qatar into a unified system. The intention is to make all governmen....
Sector: Government

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 ICT4D Collective
Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Irela | Focus: Digital Divide
The ICT4D Collective at Royal Holloway, University of London was initiated in 2004, in 2007 it was awarded the status of a UNESCO Chair in ICT4D, and in 2009 it became an official Research Centre at the College. The Collective works in partnership to undertake research, teaching (undergraduate and p....

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 UNESCO International Science, Technology and Innovation Centre for South-South Cooperation
Focus: Science, technology and innovation, Science, technology and innovation, Multi-stakeholder Partnerships and Networks
As reflected by its name, the Centre will act as an international platform for South-South cooperation in science, technology and innovation and make use of the network of the G77 plus China and the Organization of the Islamic Conference. The overall goal of the Centre is to increase in the capacity....
Sector: International Organization

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 Indispensable ICT Tools for teachers
Focus: Education, Teachers Training
The following list of ICT tools was crowd sourced from individual educationalists and not companies when the question ''What Indispensable ICT tools do you use in education'' was asked and is not meant to be exhaustive in any way. This particular wiki was d by Drew Buddie.
Sector: Civil society

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 Project Design and Programming in the Area of Youth Development through ICTD, by Julia Fauth and Michael Strautmann
Focus: Youth
This study presents and discusses a new systematic approach to current project design and programming that centres on youth development through Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Clearly, there is an undoubted need for challenging current approaches to this and related areas of resear....
Sector: Civil society

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 The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning
Focus: Distance Learning
The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning is a refereed, open access e-journal that aims to disseminate original research, theory, and best practice in open and distance learning worldwide. IRRODL is available free of charge to anyone with access to the Internet.
Sector: Academia

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 UNESCO: Freedom of information: a comparative legal survey
Focus: Freedom of Expression, Human rights, Privacy and Security
The importance of the right to information or the right to know is an increasingly constant refrain in the mouths of development practitioners, civil society, academics, the media and governments. What is this right, is it really a right and how have governments sought to give effect to it? These a....
Sector: International Organization

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 IRRODL: Recurring Issues Encountered by Distance Educators in Developing and Emerging Nations, by Clayton R. Wright, Gajaraj Dhanarajan, Sunday A. Rej
Focus: Education, Teachers Training
This article explores a number of challenges faced by e-learning or distance educators in developing and emerging countries, provides a context for many of the challenges, and outlines some measures devised to overcome them. These educators must determine a sound rationale for employing online learn....
Sector: Civil society

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 IDRC: Intégration pédagogique des TIC en Afrique: Stratégies d’action et pistes de réflexion
Country: Africa | Focus: Education, ICT for improving educational systems
L’intégration pédagogique des TIC, c’est l’usage des TIC par l’enseignant ou les élèves dans le but de développer des compétences ou de favoriser des apprentissages. L’intégration pédagogique des TIC, c’est dépasser l’enseignement de l’informatique et des logiciels. C’est amener les élèves à faire u....
Sector: International Organization, Academia

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 Solution Exchange India
Country: India | Focus: Education, Teachers Training
Solution Exchange, an initiative of the United Nations Agencies in India, is harnessing the power of Communities of Practice to help attain national development goals and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), leveraging the knowledge, experience and energies of development practitioners towards t....
Sector: Civil society

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 Impact Assessment of ICT-for-Development Projects: A Compendium of Approaches, by Richard Heeks & Alemayehu Molla
Focus: Education, Teachers Training
Billions of US dollars are invested each year by the public, NGO and private sectors in information-and-communication-technologies-for-development (ICT4D) projects such as telecentres, village phone schemes, e-health and e-education projects, e-government kiosks, etc. Yet we have very little sense ....
Sector: Civil society

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 White Paper - Information Communication & Technology (ICT) in Education for Development
Focus: Education, Teachers Training
GAID is collaborating with the Graduate Programme in International Affairs at The New School University on a research project examining the impacts of information and communication technologies (ICT), and their innovative characteristic, on the achievement of the United Nations Millennium Developmen....
Sector: Civil society

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 RHVP: Ever upwardly mobile: how do cellphones benefit vulnerable people? Lessons from farming cooperatives in Lesotho
Country: Lesotho | Focus: Education, Teachers Training
As part of its remit to build evidence on innovative approaches to develop better, more dynamic ways of tackling both acute hunger and chronic, predictable vulnerability, the Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme undertook a pilot project to see how vulnerable people benefit from cellphones. T....
Sector: Civil society

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 IDRC: ICTs, Human Development, Growth and Poverty Reduction: A Background Paper
Focus: Education, Teachers Training
In both poor and wealthy countries and populations, mobile phone use has enabled and facilitated the expansion of markets, social business and public services. An entire range of economic services, enabled by mobile phones, has emerged – banking and financial transactions, marketing and distribution....
Sector: Civil society

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 IJEDICT: The conditions and level of ICT integration in Malaysian Smart Schools
Country: Malaysia | Focus: Education, Teachers Training
This qualitative study attempts to describe the conditions that facilitated the implementation of Information Communication Technology (ICT) integration in the Malaysian Smart School and the problems that emerge during the process of integration. A total of twenty-one informants were interviewed. Ba....
Sector: Civil society

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 EduTech - A World Bank Blog on ICT use in Education
Focus: Education, Teachers Training
Exploring issues related to the use of information and communication technologies to benefit education in developing countries
Sector: Civil society

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 Panafrican Research Agenda on the Pedagogical Integration of ICT
Country: Africa | Focus: Education, Teachers Training
The purpose of the proposed Panafrican Research Agenda on the Pedagogical Integration of ICT is to contribute to this broadening process and to participate in the access, construction, and production of knowledge in the information era. The objective of this research project is to better understan....
Sector: Civil society

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 Reinventing China’s national healthcare system through electronic medical records, telecom networks and advanced IT services
Country: China | Focus: Education, Teachers Training
In January 2009 China announced a RMB 850 billion ($124 billion) stimulus package over three years to fundamentally reshape the nation’s healthcare sector. A key element of the plan is to modernize healthcare services with digital hospitalization, electronic medical records, and next-generation info....
Sector: Civil society

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 infoDev: Survey of ICT and Education in the Caribbean: Country Reports (Volume 2)
Country: Latin America and the Caribbean | Focus: Education, Teachers Training
These short reports provide general overviews of current activities and issues related to ICT use in education in individual Caribbean countries. The preliminary data presented here, drawn from a quick survey process conducted in 2007, should be regarded as illustrative rather than exhaustive. The....
Sector: Civil society

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 Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development: Rrevisions and Additions to the Core List of ICT Indicators
Focus: Education, Teachers Training
This paper presents revisions to the core list of ICT indicators and a new set of indicators on ICT in education. It follows discussion of both proposals at the 2008 Global Event on Measuring the Information Society, held in Geneva from 27-29 May 2008, and comments received thereafter.
Sector: Civil society

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 IFIP: Taking ICTs to the Grassroots: A Case Study of the LifeLines India Initiative
Country: India | Focus: Education, Teachers Training
The LifeLines India Initiative launched by OneWorld International in collaboration with British Telecom (BT) and CISCO is responsible for promoting digital inclusion and supporting the realisation of the United Nations (UN) Millennium Development Goals in India. The project was originally designed ....
Sector: Civil society

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