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Better Connectivity with Broadband to Africa

admin — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 05:54:31 +0000

This initiative is conceived as a key enabler of the four priority areas of the Global Alliance, namely education, health, entrepreneurship, and e-governance. Africa has a critically important need to develop its communication infrastructure and increase broadband access. ICT infrastructure is the foundation on which ICT services for commerce, government and society can flow. Moreover, this infrastructure is essential for African countries to achieve regional integration and to enable poor people to participate in markets.

Beyond Distance Research Alliance

admin — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 00:04:53 +0000

The community of expertise will share experience and practice-led expertise around two main themes: first, concerning issues of distance learning implementation (contexts, learners and technologies), and second, on how mobile learning technologies can be integrated into the e-learning environment and help to address emerging issues including digital exclusion, student learning and support in different parts of the world.

Cyber Development Corps

admin — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 06:10:10 +0000

Many community-based ICT4D programs primarily face scalability and sustainability challenges, the root causes of which can be traced to a) the lack of effective integration and linkages between community-based implementation and the national-community policy-strategy formulation and development program deployment and b) the need to induce the venture approach in community-based programs and a wider access to opportunity-creation for community-based programs.

E-Agriculture

admin — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 05:25:33 +0000

Defining E- Agriculture is a very challenging and complex process which requires extensive contributions and consultations involving the widest possible range of stakeholders. The reason for this is that E-Agriculture goes beyond technology, to promote the integration of technology with multimedia, knowledge and culture, with the aim of improving communication and learning processes between various actors in agriculture locally, regionally and worldwide.

e-Content and Creativity - World Summit Award and Network (WSA-net)

admin — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 20:18:42 +0000

The World Summit Award (WSA) is a global initiative launched on occasion of the United Nations' World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) 2003/05. WSA is an invitation project and a global hub to help bridge the digital divide by selecting and promoting creative contents and innovative applications.

E-services for development

admin — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 20:12:43 +0000

In the joint efforts to promote development through the ICTs it is important to focus on the inter-operability of systems and integration of the procedures in regards to services (telemedicine, e-learning, e-governance, etc). Thus this Coe would propose to work on all areas of the GAID in order to apply the specific actions at the local level, coordinating efforts so that actions on the ground can be tied with the global development strategies promoted by the UN System agencies and programmes.

eGovernance for Development

admin — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 05:10:53 +0000

Modern Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are powerful tools that can help achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Indeed, one of the MDG targets explicitly calls on governments, the international community, and the private sector to create innovative partnerships to make the new technologies, specially ICTs, accessible to all. .1 In this context, the effective integration or mainstreaming of ICTs at the local, national and regional levels into development strategies and programmes is pivotal.

Enterprises' competitiveness through the use of ICTs

admin — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 23:40:46 +0000

The objective of this activity is to create a community of practice to permit entrepreneurs, public authorities, NGOs, academics and all other agents to identify the barriers faced by enterprises in investing in ICTs and to share knowledge about policies and actions that bolster enterprises' - particularly SMEs - competitiveness through the use of ICTs.

Free Access for all Schools to the Net

admin — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:40:16 +0000

Given the revolutionary developments in new information and communication technologies (ICTs), to be part of the knowledge society requires the opportunity to access this wealth of information and knowledge and capacity to use these new ICTs. Schools are particularly fertile grounds to innovatively foster the development of a new generation of innovative citizens who have the skills and are actively engaged in the global knowledge society.

GAID Africa Regional Network

admin — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:36:41 +0000

Welcome to the virtual working space for the African Network of the Global Alliance for ICT and Development.

GAID Europe Regional Network

admin — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:00:48 +0000

Welcome to the virtual working space for the European Network of the Global Alliance for ICT and Development.

Gender Stakeholder Network

admin — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:55:45 +0000

Gender, Development and Information Society Policies

admin — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 05:36:10 +0000

Why a CoE on GDISP?

A framework that constructs ICTs as a constitutive element of a new systemic social architecture, rather than just as a set of useful tools, provides a better possibility for understanding their transformatory nature. Within such a framework, it is necessary to understand and acknowledge the gender dimensions of these changes and to suitably engender information society (IS) policies.

Global Alliance for Enhancing Access to and Application of Scientific Data in Developing Countries

admin — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 23:34:22 +0000

Scientific and technical (S&T) data constitute an important resource for innovation and support in all four of the focus areas listed above, and more generally for the social and economic development in the information society. As discussed below, we focus our attention on "governance", specifically on the policy and practice associated with the open access to and preservation of governmental or publicly-funded S&T data.

Global Alliance for ICT and Development

admin — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:10:48 +0000

Global Initiative For Inclusive Information and Communication Technologies

admin — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 15:53:53 +0000

Background: Economic and Social Development Challenges Related to Disabilities

ICT Competencies for Teachers

admin — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 06:42:45 +0000

Achieve Universal Primary Education is one of the main development objectives. The Dakar Framework of Action for Education for All (EFA), adopted in 2000 as a roadmap to meet the Education for All goals by 2015, highlights the role that Information and communication technologies (ICT) has to support EFA goals at an affordable cost. ICTs have great potential for knowledge dissemination, effective learning and the development of more efficient education services.

ICT for Country Health Information

admin — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:53:14 +0000

The use of ICT for health, or e-health, is fundamental in health care delivery and public health practice. It has particular value in responding to shared global health challenges such as emerging epidemics or the health consequences of natural disasters. It is well documented that ICT is sorely lacking in countries that need it most: those countries most vulnerable to threats from diseases, disasters and poverty.

ICT Integration and Pedagogical Engineering

admin — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 20:02:16 +0000

In most developing countries, the access to education on all levels is limited while the quality of education is generally poor. Open and distance teaching and learning (ODL) methodologies, blending and integrating traditional distance education technologies with consolidated information and communication technologies (ICT) can play a substantial role in stepping up the quantity and quality of education provision in these countries, particularly in Africa. These opportunities are not yet fully, if at all, exploited in any level of most national education systems.

ICT Policy and Finance for Social, Community and Public Entrepreneurship

admin — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 14:43:39 +0000

In the context of the emerging information society, countries are increasingly looking to leverage entrepreneurship to facilitate growth and transformation in the way in which development and business activities are carried out. To date, the focus on entrepreneurship has mostly been limited to the private sector form.

ICTs in education

admin — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 18:14:56 +0000

The world has recognized over the last decade that technology influences learning. More and more governments are investing in educational reform or "transformation" through connected schools and connected communities as a way to join the global economy with knowledge workers who have 21st century skills and are inspired by life-long learning.

Information and Communication Technologies for Peace

admin — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 21:08:40 +0000

At the GAID launching meeting the inclusion of ICT4Peace as area of work under the focus area of governance was accepted.

Network of Champions

admin — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 16:56:06 +0000

Panel of Advisers

admin — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 16:54:12 +0000

Steering Committee

admin — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 16:52:19 +0000

Strategy Council

admin — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 23:19:08 +0000

telecentre.org - scaling up for global success

admin — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:51:37 +0000

Opportunity: scaling and evolving the telecentre concept

Women and ICT Taskforce

admin — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:14:20 +0000

In March 2003, the 47th session of the United Nations Commission for Women published its Agreed Conclusions that focused on the importance of increasing women's access to and use of ICT. The areas particularly identified by the Commission as important include education and training for women and girls in ICT and via ICT; and support to women's economic activities.

Youth Social Technopreneurship

admin — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 19:23:34 +0000

The WSIS Geneva Declaration of Principles states in Para. 11 that young people must be «empowered as learners, developers, contributors, entrepreneurs and decision-makers» in the emerging Information Society. This statement has been further strengthened by Para. 25 of the WSIS Tunis Commitment which acknowledges that youth should «actively engage... in innovative ICT-based development programmes and (be given) opportunities... to be involved in e-strategy processes».