Project Design and Programming in the Area of Youth Development through ICTD, by Julia Fauth and Michael Strautmann

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 research about media and children/young audiences Despite a fairly impressive tradition of international meetings – focusing on children/youth and their access to media as well as their use of media – which reaches back to the beginning of the 1990s the need for increased availability of global statistics and comparative data as reference points for research in the area has been expressed repeatedly