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 RHVP: Ever upwardly mobile: how do cellphones benefit vulnerable people? Lessons from farming cooperatives in Lesotho
Country: Lesotho | Focus: Wireless technologies, Digital Divide, Agriculture, Urban planning
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: Digital Divide, Poverty eradication, Millennium Development Goals
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: International Organization

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 IJEDICT: The conditions and level of ICT integration in Malaysian Smart Schools
Country: Malaysia | Focus: Education, ICT for improving educational systems
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: Government, Academia

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

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 Panafrican Research Agenda on the Pedagogical Integration of ICT
Country: Africa | Focus: Education, ICT for improving educational systems, 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: Electronic Health Records, ICT for improving health systems
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: Private Sector

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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
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: International Organization

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 Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development: Rrevisions and Additions to the Core List of ICT Indicators
Focus: Digital Divide, Indicators
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: International Organization

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 IFIP: Taking ICTs to the Grassroots: A Case Study of the LifeLines India Initiative
Country: India | Focus: Digital Divide, Education, Agriculture, Millennium Development Goals
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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 Research ICT Africa: Towards Evidence Based ICT Policy and Regulation: eSkills
Country: Africa | Focus: Education, Metrics and Stats, Indicators
This paper finds that tertiary and secondary enrolment indicators do not capture the stock of individuals with completed secondary or tertiary education but only the projected educational output for the coming years. It would however be the second best indicator. Further, adult literacy captures the....
Sector: Civil society

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 Research ICT Africa: Towards Evidence-based ICT Policy and Regulation:ICT access and usage in Africa
Country: Africa | Focus: Connectivity, Access, Digital Divide, Metrics and Stats, Indicators
This paper reports on the findings of the second household and individual user survey of access and usage conducted by RIA between 2007 and 2008 across 17 African countries. It builds on the first household survey conducted by RIA in 2004/5 and a number of subsequent supply-side studies that have de....
Sector: Civil society

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 infoDev: Improving Health, Connecting People: The Role of ICT in the Health Sector in Developing Countries
Focus: Health
What do we know about the successes and challenges in using ICT as tools of disease prevention and health promotion in developing countries? What lessons and guidance can we draw from this experience? This study, commissioned by infoDev and led by three prominent organizations involved in ICT for he....
Sector: International Organization

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 UNICEF: Rapid assessment of cell phones for development
Country: South Africa | Focus: Wireless technologies, Digital Divide, Entrepreneurship, Health
This assessment, commissioned by UNICEF in South Africa and implemented by Women’sNet, aims to provide baseline data that will inform a strategy to launch a new generation of cell phone technologies to address underdevelopment and in particular HIV/AIDS as a development issue. Written and compiled b....
Sector: International Organization

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 mHealth: A Developing Country Perspective, by Saroj Mishra and Indra Pratap Singh
Focus: Health
The health care environment is currently changing, and the health sector is being transformed to meet new challenges and to benefit from new opportunities. Priorities for the 21st century ought to be set based on emerging dominant trends in health care, including the shift towards shared or integrat....
Sector: Civil society

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 Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning, by George Siemens and Peter Tittenberger, University of Manitoba
Focus: Education, ICT for improving educational systems, Higher education, Science, technology and innovation
Higher education is in the midst of transformative (but exciting) change. Over the next decade, the practices of teaching and learning “will undergo fundamental change”2 as universities and colleges respond to global, social, political, technological, and learning research trends. A duality of chang....
Sector: Academia

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 ICTD – Is it a new species of development? by Anita Gurumurthy
Focus: Digital Divide
In the not so distant past, when either-or debates about ICTs and ''other'' development priorities were doing the rounds, a typical phrase would be – But email is no substitute for vaccines!! Thankfully, ICTD has moved from that conjuncture. I recall something from a research we recently publishe....
Sector: Civil society

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 ICTs in Education in Africa: a collection of PanAf newsletter’s articles
Country: Africa | Focus: Education
In this document you will find a collection of articles published by researchers of the “PanAfrican Research Agenda on the Pedagogical Integration of ICTs” (PanAf) during the two years of the project implementation. This document provides analysis, evidence of experiences in integrating technology i....
Sector: Civil society

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 Munich Personal RePEc Archive: ICT in Education: A Study of Public Health Education
Focus: Education, Education and disease prevention
Modern technologies such as Information Communication Technologies have helped many of the development sectors. One of the sectors it has lot of scope to develop is the Education. It is also evident from the experience that the benefits of these technologies have contributed much in the area of heal....
Sector: Academia

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 ODI: Mobile phones for development and profit: a win-win scenario
Focus: Wireless technologies, Entrepreneurship
As the number of mobile phone subscribers soars worldwide, this Opinion argues that increasing mobile penetration brings developmental benefits, but effective regulation is required to ensure fair competition and encourage roll-out to underserved areas.    The Opinion outlines  th....
Sector: Civil society

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 WEF: The Global Information Technology Report 2008-2009
Focus: Metrics and Stats
Denmark and Sweden once again lead the rankings of The Global Information Technology Report 2008-2009, released for the eighth consecutive year by the World Economic Forum. The United States follows suit, up one position from last year, thus confirming its pre-eminence in networked readiness in t....
Sector: Academia

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 WASET: Convergence of ICT and Education, by Raju Kumar
Focus: Education
Information and communication technology (ICT) has become, within a very short time, one of the basic building blocks of modern society. Many countries now understanding the importance of ICT and mastering the basic skills and concepts of it as part of the core of education. Organizations, experts a....
Sector: Academia

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 ITU: Confronting the Financial Crisis: Its Impact on the ICT Industry
Focus: Entrepreneurship
But what are the consequences for the global ICT industry? Telecommunications and the Internet are now vital service platforms, underpinning much of international trade and the global financial system, not to mention personal communications. ICTs are pervasive general purpose technologies. Even befo....
Sector: International Organization

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 IDRC: African Women and ICTs - Investigating Technology, Gender and Empowerment
Focus: Gender
The revolution in information and communication technologies (ICTs) has vast implications for the developing world, but what tangible benefits has it brought when issues of social inclusion and exclusion, particularly in the developing world, remain at large? In addition, the gender digital divi....
Sector: International Organization

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 IDRC: Telehealth in the Developing World
Focus: Health
Health care is primarily about people-to-people interactions. It is about understanding, diagnosis, physical contact, communication, and, ultimately, providing care. By bringing people together, telecommunication technologies have the potential to improve both the quality of and access to health....
Sector: International Organization

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 COL: Education for a Digital World
Focus: Education, Best practices and lessons-learned
Digital information technologies are transforming the way we work, learn, and communicate. Within this digital revolution are new learning approaches that transform hierarchical, industrial-based models of teaching and learning. The creation of this book employed the very principles it espouse....
Sector: Civil society

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 UNF: mHealth for Development: The Opportunity of Mobile Technology for Healthcare in the Developing World
Focus: Wireless technologies, Health, Health Tools for Consumers, Health Tools for Health Professionals, ICT for improving health systems, Surveillance and Geographical Information Systems, Telemedicine
This report examines issues at the heart of the rapidly evolving intersection of mobile phones and healthcare. It helps the reader to understand mHealth’s scope and implementation across developing regions, the health needs to which mHealth can be applied, and the mHealth applications that promi....
Sector: Civil society

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 GKP-OWSA: Fixing the Climate with ICT
Focus: Climate change
Produced by OneWorld South Asia in partnership with GKP, this advocacy guide is the result of the virtual GKP Forum on Climate Change held from 20 May – 9 June 2008 and captures in summary, key conclusions from discussions around the role ICT, partnerships and networks in promoting the creation ....
Sector: Civil society

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 Vital Wave Consulting: Landscape Analysis of Low-cost Computing Devices
Focus: Youth, Education, Science, technology and innovation
The information technology (IT) industry has an ongoing fascination with low-cost computing devices. The media and manufacturers alike have brought the topic to the public’s attention with new zeal every few years. This report reviews and analyzes the evolving landscape of low-cost computing d....
Sector: Private Sector

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 infoDev: Survey of ICT and Education in the Caribbean: Regional Trends and Analysis (Volume 1)
Country: Latin America and the Caribbean | Focus: Best practices and lessons-learned
This Survey provides a general overview of current activities and issues related to ICT use in education in individual Caribbean countries and territories. It is intended to address the information needs and interests of donor organizations as well as Caribbean education policymakers, strategists, a....

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 iConnect Online: Diffusion of information communication technology in selected Ghanaian schools
Country: Ghana | Focus: Education, ICT for improving educational systems
This research paper, written by Mr. Ebenezer Malcolm and Dr. Francis Godwyll from Ohio University, USA, explores the state of ICT integration in the educational system in Ghana. The emphasis is on how ICTs are currently being used in the education sector in Ghana, what is actually happening on the ....
Sector: Academia

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