Content update - Information and Communication Technologies for Development on the dgCommunities

Community Content records
1. Information and communication technology for poverty alleviation
This publication describes several examples of how ICTs have contributed to poverty alleviation, to a greater or lesser extent. Several case studies are given at the end. Some lessons learned from the examples are synthesized and it is shown how implementation efforts have to take into account the w...
Date: Sep-07-2008
Contributed by: Moushumi Biswas

2. 2006 e-Government Strategy, Responsive Government: A New Service Agenda
This New Service Agenda builds on the momentum and achievements in the previous strategy (Better Services, Better Government), taking into account lessons learnt, to deliver an even more coordinated and citizen-driven focus to the government's e-government initiatives. It is about strategically ap...
Date: Sep-04-2008
Contributed by: Moushumi Biswas

3. Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS) Quota
The Agricultural Market Information System Quota project is an electronic information communication system, which contributes to better handling of import tariff quotas at preferential rates administered by the Directorate General for Agriculture & Rural Development....
Date: Sep-04-2008
Contributed by: Moushumi Biswas

4. Doing Business: An Independent Evaluation
'Doing Business (DB), an annual World Bank-IFC publication launched in 2004, is one of the Bank Group's flagship knowledge products. It measures the burden of selected business regulations in 178 countries and ranks the countries on 10 dimensions. The program's stated objective is to advance the Wo...
Date: Sep-04-2008
Contributed by: Najmee Chowdhury

5. Telecentres Share the Tools of the Information Age
As international development agencies increasingly come to recognize the correlation between the adoption of information and communications technologies (ICTs) and economic development, we need to understand that a social investment is required for the services available in a telecentre to take root...
Date: Sep-03-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

6. Young power in social action and Bangladesh NGO network for radio and communication
The project is developing a community multimedia centre (CMC) from an existing telecentre in the Sitakund sub-district in Bangladesh. It aims to raise awareness in the community of the potential benefits of a community multimedia centre and to train the local community in community media skills; it ...
Date: Sep-03-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

7. Resources about Women & Gender
Dimitra is an information and communication project which aims to highlight rural women's contribution to their community and their country. It is implemented by the Gender and Development Service (SDWW), of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The project is coordinated in B...
Date: Sep-03-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

8. OrphanIT Remote Services
The OrphanIT website showcases some of the best resources on the Internet if you are a budding ICT entrepreneur and want to get an IT related project up and running fast. Most of the resources are completely free and are easy to use. OrphanIT assists ICT projects and entrepreneurs by providing ment...
Date: Sep-03-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

9. Indian Telecentre Forum
A conference and workshop programme has been conceptualised to bring the international and Indian practitioners in a platform for learning and sharing the experiences, and to address critical issues of content, collaboration, sustainability and up-scaling. Further, issues relating to monitoring proj...
Date: Sep-03-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

10. Using the Internet and Other Media to Promote Democracy
The Centre for International Private Enterprise's Virtual Business Association helps business association leaders develop both the necessary skills for managing voluntary organizations and an understanding of the basic principles of the market and democracy. CIPE is expanding the reach of the VBA in...
Date: Sep-03-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

11. telecentre.org Americas Workshop Report
The telecentre.org Americas workshop was held at the Wosk Centre for Dialogue coinciding with the end of the Pacific Community Networking Association (PCNA) summit. The opening exercises were followed by a presentation on early (and quickly evolving) thinking about telecentre.org. Based on a request...
Date: Sep-03-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

12. Sustaining The Community Telecentre Movement
This paper examines the area of interest in telecentre operation and puts an accent on training and sustainability. Download the paper by following this link: http://ip.cals.cornell.edu/commdev/documents/ictpaper-uk.doc...
Date: Sep-03-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

13. Choosing a Platform for the telecentre.org Network
Introduction: 'Telecentre.org has outlined plans for a distributed network of telecenter network sites around the world, which will include a site for Telecentre.org itself. Mark Surman, author and Managing Director of Telecentre Support Networks at the International Development Research Center (IDR...
Date: Sep-03-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

14. Last Mile Initiative Training Materials
This document identifies essential training needs of Last Mile Initiative operators such as info-kiosk operators, telecenter staff and micro-telcos as well as existing training materials related to public access center management and organized these materials in a useful manner. Download this articl...
Date: Sep-03-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

15. Resources for Internet Trainers
Being an effective Internet and ICTs trainer requires more than just being familiar with the tools. Developing a good training programme takes careful planning and an understanding of the organization's and individual learner's needs and context. The site draws on the ItrainOnline partners' experien...
Date: Sep-03-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

16. Social Signal
Social Signal are experts at turning site visitors into site contributors. Their practice is based on extended research into online participation, experience in online campaigning, and years of collective wisdom on social marketing, strategy and communications. They put knowledge that work for build...
Date: Sep-03-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

17. Telework New Zealand
This site provides links to a number of resources that could be useful to individuals and companies intending to implement telework programmes. Telework is about people, how they work, how they interact, and how they prepare for an increasingly uncertain future. And it's about flexibility: flexible ...
Date: Sep-03-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

18. Quick Guide to Resources and Work on Telecentres in International Institutions and Donor Agencies
The site is a guide to resources and work on telecentres in international institutions and donor agencies. Telecentres have received a great deal of support and attention from international donor organizations and non-governmental organisations, NGOs in the past decade; the International Development...
Date: Sep-03-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

19. Telecentre management: a perspective on energy from renewable resources
ICS aims at implementing a multi year programme on ICT for sustainable rural development, which should act as a hub within the network of UNIDO ongoing programmes and Technology Centres. ICS would give support in different terms e.g. by attracting requests and providing services and tools in the fie...
Date: Sep-03-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

20. Patriensa: Asante Akim Multupurpose Community Telecentre
The Asante Akim Multipurpose Community Telecentre, AAMCT employs computer-equipped training facilities to provide education and health-related training to the people in the district. It is an exercise to empower rural communities and promote the social, cultural and economic growth of the people in ...
Date: Sep-03-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

21. The Denmark Telecentre
The Denmark Telecentre is a local community centre equipped with modern computers and IT facilities. Telecentres are independent incorporated bodies owned by the communities in which they operate. Denmark Telecentre provides services which stimulate the creative use of telecommunications and compute...
Date: Sep-03-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

22. The Northcliffe Telecentre
The Northcliffe Telecentre is a community Internet and computing centre, providing services to a small rural town in the south west forest and farming area of Western Australia. It is a member of the WA Telecentres Network supported by the State Government of Western Australia. The Telecentre has a ...
Date: Sep-03-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

23. Communication and Information Technology Centre Resources
To learn more about various online directories of hardware and software technologies appropriate for and relevant to community telecentres worldwide, visit the UNESCO Communication and Information site here: http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=15281&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=-473.html...
Date: Sep-03-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

24. CyberVolunteers
The CyberVolunteers Programme recruits, trains and coordinates volunteers with information and communication technology skills for development. Volunteers participate in local, regional and international projects for a period of several weeks or months, offering their skills in areas such as web or ...
Date: Sep-03-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

25. ICA Supports Regional Telecentre Network in Latin America and the Caribbean
The Institute for Connectivity in the Americas (ICA) is pleased to announce its support for phase two of the 'Digital Inclusion: Telecentre Network in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)' project. Phase o­ne of the project (1999 - 2001), sponsored the creation of the Somos@Telecentros Network ...
Date: Sep-03-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

26. Women's Information Resource Electronic Service (WIRES)
The Story Background and context: Rural Uganda is a difficult place for women. Many women are the primary providers for households, either responsible for doing much of the agriculture work, or running a small business. Despite this role as providers, men, not women, usually have access to credit...
Date: Sep-03-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

27. Open Source & More IT for African Business
it@asiait@ab releases a series of advanced e-learning courses on Information Technology (IT)- 'Open Source & More IT for African Business' focussing on the needs of business related IT consultancy in Africa. ...
Date: Sep-03-2008
Contributed by: Balthas Seibold

28. Central Vigilance Commission Website: A Bold Anticorruption Experiment
'The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) in India has begun to share with citizens a large amount of information related to corruption. The CVC website has published the names of officers from the elite administrative and revenue services against whom investigations have been ordered or penalties imp...
Date: Sep-03-2008
Contributed by: Najmee Chowdhury

29. Boyup Brook Telecentre
The Boyup Brook Telecentre is a community owned and managed non-profit organisation. The management committee is made up of elected Telecentre members. Their role is to represent the Telecentre in the community and also present the needs and views of the community, provide a forum for new initiative...
Date: Sep-02-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

30. Analytical Synthesis of Training Programmes
Here's an interesting article on the importance of ICT not only in teaching and learning, but also in management, online collaboration and communication. To learn more, visit the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO website here: http://www2.unescobkk.org/educat...
Date: Sep-02-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

31. HELP Resources - Health-Education-Livelihood-Participation
Abstract: 'HELP is an acronym denoting our commitment to committing human and technical resources to achieve Health, Education, Livelihood and Participation for all. HELP Resources is a local NGO, with a focus on rural and grassroots communities. HELP Resources is well networked across Papua New Gui...
Date: Sep-02-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

32. Winrock International
Winrock International is a nonprofit organization that works with people around the world to increase economic opportunity, sustain natural resources, and protect the environment. By linking local individuals and communities with new ideas and technology, Winrock is increasing long-term productivity...
Date: Sep-02-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

33. The European Regional Information Society Association
The main aims of the IANIS+ program are: A) to further develop inter-regional networking; * providing more effective mechanisms to facilitate sharing information, experience and good practice between regions – both by face-to-face meetings and virtual exchanges; * to build a bridge betw...
Date: Sep-02-2008
Contributed by: John Daly

34. Ten Guiding Principles for E-government
A number of guiding principles for e-government have appeared in recent years. They can be broadly classified into two categories: (i) recommendatory, and (ii) prescriptive. The recommendatory guidelines are comprehensive and useful guidelines but not binding on stakeholders. The prescriptive guidel...
Date: Sep-02-2008
Contributed by: Dr DC Misra

35. SDI-Africa - GIS & remote sensing news in Africa - September 2008
Spatial Data Infrastructure — Africa (SDI-Africa), published by the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) Association, is a free, electronic newsletter for people interested in GIS, remote sensing, and data management issues in Africa. Each issue highlights recent activities, provides details ...
Date: Sep-02-2008
Contributed by: Kate Lance

36. FOSS Business Models Materials by It@InWEnt
The use of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is not only becoming more and more common by companies and administrations worldwide, it is also becoming a method for innovative IT-companies to achieve higher turnover. According to studies, more than 60.000 companies are already building their busin...
Date: Sep-02-2008
Contributed by: Balthas Seibold

37. First Working Group on Cyber Law in India
On public request, a "Working Group on Cyber Law in India" is in the process of being constituted that would take care of the legal enablement of ICT systems in India. The same would consist of leading Organisations, Institutions, Industrial and Professional Bodies, Members of Civil Society and ...
Date: Sep-02-2008
Contributed by: Kunal Koel

38. ICT Training to Improve Health Care of Rural Populations
Abstract: 'Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has seen tremendous unprecedented growth in the last decade. Its impact has been felt in almost all sectors. But the impact of ICT on health care is lagging behind in developing countries like Bangladesh. A training program in Bangladesh trai...
Date: Sep-01-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

39. Aspiration: better tools for a better world
Aspiration connects nonprofits to software solutions that help them more effectively meet their missions of positive global change. We connect and strengthen physical communities of nonprofit users and software developers by convening and facilitating innovative technology events. We connect and str...
Date: Sep-01-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

40. Reinventing Universities to Support Telecentres
Abstract: 'The following article is a paper that was written in May earlier this year by Dr. Nguyen Tuan Anh of the Thai Nguyen University of Agriculture and Forestry (Vietnam) and Dr. Royal D. Colle of the Cornell University (USA). It was written in an effort to address a combination of issues with...
Date: Sep-01-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

41. Newfoundland to Africa: Poverty the Connection
He oversaw the creation of the first telecentre in Canada. He has done it all – he is an entrepreneur, sociologist, author and educator. Artwell Dlamini asked Richard Fuchs what these far-flung ways-of-life have in common with rural development. To learn more about telecentres have promoted ele...
Date: Sep-01-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

42. School-Based Telecenter Monitoring And Evaluation Tools
This is a comprehensive set of monitoring and evaluation tools for School-Based Telecenters aimed at supporting SBT continued performance improvement and sustainability. The tools are flexible in nature and may therefore be self-administered or used as interview guide for telecenter manager/staff. ...
Date: Sep-01-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

43. Information & Communication Technologies (ICTs) Servicing Farm Radio: New Contents, New Partnerships
The following link will bring you to a list of papers presented at the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) International Workshop on Farm Radio Broadcasting help in Rome, Italy in February 2001. The theme: 'Information & Communication Technologies (ICTs) Servicing Farm Radio: New Contents, New ...
Date: Sep-01-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

44. Evolution of a Regional Telecentre Network
Abstract: 'No telecentre can be an island. Experience and common sense tell us that telecentre sustainability, defined as social, cultural, political, technological, and financial can not be achieved without networking and knowledge sharing among telecentres. To make the work of telecentres more eff...
Date: Sep-01-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

45. Commercial Cybercafés: A Useful Weapon Against the 'Digital Divide'?
'In some countries of the developing world, cybercafés are by far the main way to connect to the Internet and to interact with computers. This is the starting point of this interesting analysis on the role of Internet in less developed countries.' To read the remainder of Ana María Fernández-M...
Date: Sep-01-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

46. Telecentre Sustainability: The Need for Multi-stakeholder Partnership
This PowerPoint presentation recognises importance of Telecentre Sustainability and suggests strong need for multi-stakeholder partnerships. K.A.M. Morshed makes the case that donor supported telecentres are continually at risk of closing down once the support is withdrawn and that a lack of market ...
Date: Sep-01-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

47. Telecentre Workshop convenes in Egypt
Introduction: 'The telecentre.org program in association with Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC) recently hosted a telecentre stakeholders' consultation workshop. The event was part of the ongoing telecentre scoping study the program commissioned to document telecentre ...
Date: Sep-01-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

48. Community Telecentres - Telecoms Prominent in Push for Greater Prosperity
'Telecoms operators in mainland Europe may be pulling up phone boxes, télécabines, Telephonhaüschen and cabinas telefónicas by the thousand, but in the developing world it is a very different story. Home to two thirds of the world's population, the nations of Africa, northern and south-east A...
Date: Sep-01-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

49. Setting up 1,500 Telecentres in Nepal during Tenth Plan Unlikely
Establishment of 1,500 telecentres in various communities within Nepal within the Tenth Five Year Plan is unlikely given the current pessimistic pace of implementation. One and a-half years of the Tenth Plan have passed and it is amazing that only four telecentres have been established. Insecurity, ...
Date: Sep-01-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

50. BARRIONET: An Urban Development Alternative
Abstract: 'BarrioNet's main objective is to interconnect electronically marginal communities that share common problems such as, lack of services, environmental degradation and violence by using information technology and communication strategies. In other words, it gives these communities a socia...
Date: Sep-01-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

51. Partnerships for e-prosperity for the poor
Abstract: 'Partnerships for e-Prosperity for the Poor (Pe-PP) is designed to bring existing resources and knowledge together to assist and empower poor communities to utilise information and communication technologies (ICT) for their access to basic social services and economic activities, thus cont...
Date: Sep-01-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

52. What it looks like when funders work together
To learn more about international telecentres, building global capacity in civil society, and how funders can collaborate more effectively, visit charityvillage.com to read the following interview between Mark Surman and Gillian Kerr: http://www.charityvillage.com/cv/research/rtech54.html...
Date: Sep-01-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

53. African Telecentre Networks - An Insider Perspective
The first wave of telecentres in Africa started in the late 1990s in Mali, Uganda, Mozambique, Tanzania and South Africa. It was the aftermath of the first ever Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) conference in Toronto, Canada and the rise of digital divide initiatives. The telecentre approach prese...
Date: Sep-01-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

54. Experiences in the Philippine Government's Multipurpose Community Telecenter Pilot Projects
The Department of Science and Technology, through the Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (DOST-PCHRD), in 1999, facilitated the implementation of four pilot barangay multipurpose community telecenters (MCTs; www.barangayconnect.ph) in Mindanao (Tubod and Kapatagan in Lanao del N...
Date: Sep-01-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

55. Telecenter Sustainability e-conference
Abstract: 'Information and Communication Technologies have been accepted as key ingredients for poverty reduction and achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It is within this context that telecentres [to mean Community Technology Learning Centres (CTLCs) and Community Multi-media Ce...
Date: Sep-01-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

56. The Open University and local libraries are Bridging the Digital Divide
Introduction: 'The Open University has launched a new project aimed at encouraging OU students in 10 locations around the UK to gain access to new and advanced computer technology at participating libraries or online centres. Bridging the Digital Divide aims to ensure that students are able to be...
Date: Sep-01-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

57. APEC Telecenter Development Program
Abstract: 'In support of Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation APEC Economic Leaders' decisions, Chinese Taipei proposed the establishment of an APEC Digital Opportunity Center at the 11th APEC Economic Leaders' meeting in Bangkok in 2003. The APEC Telecentre Development Project is one of projects t...
Date: Sep-01-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

58. Telecentres in Rural Asia: Towards a Success Model
Abstract: 'The global digital divide threatens to deprive millions of people of the benefits that are attainable from having access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). Most of these people live in rural parts of developing countries and they are unlikely ever to own their own compu...
Date: Sep-01-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

59. Telecentre Evaluation: Issues and Strategies
Abstract: 'Telecentres are intended to meet the evolving information, communication and learning needs of their communities. It is therefore important to make a systematic effort to monitor the costs and usage patterns and to measure the impact of telecentre usage. Budget allocations for monitoring ...
Date: Sep-01-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

60. The Remote Community Service Telecentres of Newfoundland and Labrador
Abstract: 'The Remote Community Services Telecentre (RCST) project was originally envisaged as an initiative to develop and test the concept of a wireless multifunction telecentre for rural and remote communities in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada's easternmost province, with facilities spread a...
Date: Sep-01-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

61. On The Threshold of a Dream e-Bario: The End of the Beginning
Abstract: 'This report arises from a visit to Bario from 3 September to 10 September 2002 by the author. The visit began a day after the official opening of the Gatuman-B@rio telecentre by the Sarawak State Secretary Datuk Amar Abdul Aziz Husain. During the visit, the author conducted conversatio...
Date: Sep-01-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

62. Assessing Mobile Technologies in Child Protective Services: An Extended Pilot in New York City's Administration for Children's Services.
This project involved a large scale deployment of wireless laptops to CPS workers in New York City's ACS.The report shows the complexity of deploying technology into a well established profession. The study focused on mobility, productivity, and satisfaction, and includes a set of recommendations an...
Date: Sep-01-2008
Contributed by: Moushumi Biswas

63. Making Smart IT Choices: Understanding Value and Risk in Government IT Investments
This handbook is designed to help any government manager follow a well-tested methodology for evaluating IT innovations before deciding (with greater confidence) to make a significant investment....
Date: Sep-01-2008
Contributed by: Moushumi Biswas

64. Advancing Return on Investment Analysis for Government IT: A Public Value framework
This white paper publish by Center for Technology in Government University provides an analysis process that starts with a high level view of the IT investment and then drills down through successive steps to identify the specific measures and methods that will reveal and document public value.The f...
Date: Sep-01-2008
Contributed by: Moushumi Biswas

65. Banking the Unbanked: Technology's Role in Delivering Accessible Financial Services to the Poor
'How can microfinance have macro impact in the world such that billions of today's urban and rural poor gain access to financial services? By undertaking 3 pilot studies in Uganda, a consortium of private and public actors sought to determine the role technology could play in increasing the reach ...
Date: Sep-01-2008
Contributed by: Najmee Chowdhury

66. Department of Information Technology, India - Annual Report 2006-2007
Department of Information Technology India publishes their annual report. The report shows that the software and ITES exports from India grew from US$ 12.9 billion in the year 2003-04 to US$ 23.6 billion in 2005-06. It is estimated that total software and ITES exports from India will exceed US$ 31....
Date: Sep-01-2008
Contributed by: Moushumi Biswas

67. School Telecentres - Supporting Resources for Training Materials
School Based Telecenters (SBTs) provides resources to schools to help them open their computer facilities for use as community telecenters. To access these resources, visit the School Telecentres website here: http://info.worldbank.org/etools/docs/library/91628/telecentres/telecentres/...
Date: Aug-31-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

68. The Volunteer Training Scene in Western Australia: A Resource Guide for Agencies
Abstract: 'The International Year of Volunteers in 2001 had a significant impact on raising the profile of volunteering in Australia. One outcome was a greater recognition of the importance of volunteer training. No matter what the size of an agency, or the kinds of volunteering experiences they pr...
Date: Aug-31-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

69. Keys to Human Resource Development: Capacity Building through Train-the-Trainer Programs and Universal Access through Affordable Wireless Technologies
Abstract: 'This paper presents timely, simple, and inexpensive means for an emerging nation to meet the development challenge: train-the-trainer programs for capacity building, and wireless -- HF/VHF/UHF radio data networks for rural, and spread spectrum for urban -- Internet connectivity, to meet t...
Date: Aug-31-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

70. Telecentres and the provision of community based access to electronic information...in the UK
Abstract: 'This paper presents research undertaken for a PhD between 1997 and 2000 in the United Kingdom. The study explored three themes, the use of electronic information in everyday life, the use of telecentres by local communities in everyday life and community involvement strategies in the desi...
Date: Aug-31-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

71. Rural telecommunication services and stakeholder participation
Introduction: 'This contribution is designed to help bridge the gap between practices of the communication for development practitioners and telecommunication experts who provide services to rural areas. Improvements in technology and reductions in costs have focused new attention on the provision o...
Date: Aug-31-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

72. TINA Remote Terminal Software Management Service
Abstract: 'This paper proposes a new application management service, in which the service provider assists small to medium size business to manage their software. The end user computers are pre-configured to dial into the access lines of the service provider, download and install the required softwa...
Date: Aug-31-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

73. Regional Seminar for Arab States on Community Telecentres
Abstract: 'This report documents a specific seminar which is part of a series of regional seminars on community telecentres organized by the ITU Development Sector (BDT) in collaboration with other Agencies. The seminar was hosted by the Tunisian Ministry of Communications and the Tunisian Internet ...
Date: Aug-31-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

74. Telecentre Sustainability: Theory and Practice in Mozambique
Polly's Sustainability Model suggests Telecentres combine entrepreneurial structures with services for the community and the poor; build a user base and incorporate paid-for services and realistic pricing. Download this presentation by visiting the UNESCO website here: http://www.unesco.org/web...
Date: Aug-31-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

75. ItrainOnline: Resources for Women
ItrainOnline is a joint initiative of eight organizations with exceptional expertise in computer and Internet training in the South. It is a single source on the web containing a selection of the best and most relevant computer and Internet training resources for development and social change. L...
Date: Aug-31-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

76. Review of telecenter sustainability criteria for the establishment of sustainable rural business
'Integrated Rural Development (IRD) covers all human activities in the rural environment and is based on the concerted development of all sectors such as agriculture, education, transportation, health care, etc. Access to adequate telecommunication services in rural and remote areas is a key to the ...
Date: Aug-31-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

77. Review of telecenter sustainability criteria for the establishment of sustainable rural business...
Abstract: 'This paper addresses the sustainability issue of telecentres. It draws from experience and research related to sustainability of telecentres that has been collected throughout the set-up of telecentre projects of different shapes and at different locations. The findings are integrated wit...
Date: Aug-31-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

78. Research for Telecentre Development: Obstacles and Opportunities
Conducting field research in the developing world is, under any circumstances, a complex affair, and the study of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in this context adds yet another series of special challenges. Nevertheless, telecentre research offers tremendous opportunity to unders...
Date: Aug-31-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

79. Information and Communication Technologies for Development in Africa
The Experience with Community Telecentres presents the results of a series of studies that examined the setting, operations and effects of community telecentres. The studies reported in this book were planned and conducted as evaluative research to make a contribution towards illuminating the relati...
Date: Aug-31-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

80. If you Have a Lemon, Make Lemonade
'This is intended as the starting point for helping to guide the development of new multipurpose community telecentres (MCT) in Africa. It is referred to it as a 'starting point' because it is the beginning of a formative process for distilling and sharing what the author already knows and what he l...
Date: Aug-31-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

81. India comes out with Draft Policy on Open Standards for e-Governance
The draft policy attempts to tackle difficult issues like vendor lock-in and attempts to provide a level playing field for all. It makes special provision for encouraging open standard work in Indian languages. It also lays down certain guiding principles for selection of standards. The policy will ...
Date: Sep-01-2008
Contributed by: Dr DC Misra

82. Customs and Trade Facilitation: from concepts to implementation
Trade facilitation is the simplification, harmonisation, standardisation and modernisation of trade procedures. It seeks to reduce trade transaction costs at the interface between business and government and is an agenda item within many customs related activities. These include WTO trade round nego...
Date: Sep-01-2008
Contributed by: Andrew Grainger, Dr

83. Corporate Law in India and E-Governance
The Techno-Legal Regulations have finally got the attention of a segment of Government of India, i.e. Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA). However, the media reports and the Ministry sources were totally clueless about the Information Technology Act, 2000 (IT Act, 2000) of India that is also the sol...
Date: Aug-30-2008
Contributed by: Kunal Koel

84. Maria del Rosario Blandon, a leading technology teacher!
Maria del Rosario Blandon is the leading technology teacher at the Pedro Octavio Amado School in Medellin. Her objective is to keep training again and again her students and the whole community so that they become real "athletes" of the ICTs. That is why everyday, she works hard on bringing new ...
Date: Aug-30-2008
Contributed by: Corporación Makaia Asesoría Internacional

85. Rosario Blandón: con la tecnología entre ceja y ceja
Esta mujer, día tras día, se levanta muy temprano y emprende un viaje desde su casa en Medellín hasta Altavista y teniendo aún el frío de la mañana entre sus huesos, inicia la labor diaria de formarse y capacitar a todos los interesados en el uso de los computadores y de la Internet como herra...
Date: Aug-30-2008
Contributed by: Corporación Makaia Asesoría Internacional

86. Digital inclusion agreement for the local entrepreneurs
Medellin Digital and the Cedezo (Local Centers of Entrepreneurship Development) signed an agreement for the installation in the 8 centers, of PCs and wireless Internet. This will help spread the use of ICTs among the entrepreneurs in the different neighborhoods of the city. Together with these new...
Date: Aug-30-2008
Contributed by: Corporación Makaia Asesoría Internacional

87. Pacto de inclusión digital para Emprendedores barriales
El 19 de agosto los Centros de Desarrollo Empresarial Zonal (Cedezo), en cabeza de su coordinadora María Constanza Ramírez, cerraron con Medellín Digital un pacto en el que además de entregar equipos de comunicación y cómputo, este programa se compromete a difundir el uso de las Tecnologías d...
Date: Aug-30-2008
Contributed by: Corporación Makaia Asesoría Internacional

88. Nanotechnology in Wireless Handsets
Nanotechnology establishes a ready resonance with wireless handset requirements due to the formidable engineering and business challenges that govern the selection of individual handset component materials. This Market & Technology Assessment Report on March 2008 presents the wireless handset compon...
Date: Aug-28-2008
Contributed by: Moushumi Biswas

89. ICT4D in the Americas
This document proposes a five-year strategic plan for a new Program Initiative in the "Information and Communication Technologies for Development" (ICT4D) area in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), It will build on the lessons learned by these initiatives in previous programming cycles as we...
Date: Aug-28-2008
Contributed by: Moushumi Biswas

90. Making the marketplace mobile
With internet and SMS TradeNet allows rural farmers to advertise their merchandise to an international market and find the fairest price for their crops...
Date: Aug-28-2008
Contributed by: Moushumi Biswas

91. Web Based Citizen-IT Interface (WebCITI): India
WebCITI provides a web based interface to citizens seeking services from the district administration. These include issuance of certificates such as death/birth, caste, rural area etc; licenses such as arms license, permission for conferences/rallies etc and benefits from socio-economic schemes...
Date: Aug-28-2008
Contributed by: Moushumi Biswas

92. ICT Update
ICT Update is a bimonthly printed bulletin, web magazine, and accompanying email newsletter focusing on the use of information and communication technologies in agriculture in African, Caribbean and Pacific countries. It is published in English and French, by CTA (Technical Centre for Agricultural a...
Date: Aug-28-2008
Contributed by: John Daly

93. ICT4D Social Enterprise Toolkit
Increasingly the model for sustainable development includes NGO programs started with seed funding with the aim to be self-sustaining after a set period of time. In the case of community Internet centers sustainability raises the issue of how the benefits from the project relate to the ability or wi...
Date: Aug-27-2008
Contributed by: telecentre.org library

94. 'The digital war on poverty'
'Thanks to market forces, even the world's poorest people are beginning to benefit from the flow of digital information.' Jeffrey Sachs, The Guardian, August 21 2008....
Date: Aug-27-2008
Contributed by: John Daly

95. Review: 'The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It'
This is a review of the book by Jonathan Zittrain, 'one of a group of technically literate legal scholars who have clarified what's at stake politically, economically, and culturally in choices about the architecture of the new media.' The review notes: 'At the core of his thinking is a distinction...
Date: Aug-27-2008
Contributed by: John Daly

Highlights records
1. World Conference on Agricultural Information and IT
This conference, held in Tokyo, Japan from 24 – 28th August, saw the coming together of the International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists (IAALD) and the Asian Federation of Information Technology in Agriculture (AFITA). Discussion was therefore very wide ranging, and covered...
Date: Sep-03-2008
Contributed by: John Daly

2. World Conference on Agricultural Information and IT
This conference, held in Tokyo, Japan from 24 – 28th August, saw the coming together of the International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists (IAALD) and the Asian Federation of Information Technology in Agriculture (AFITA). Discussion was therefore very wide ranging, and covered...
Date: Sep-03-2008
Contributed by: John Daly

News records
1. 'Internet traffic grows 53 percent from mid-2007'
Internet 'traffic grew 53 percent from mid-2007 to mid-2008, down from a growth rate of 61 percent in the previous 12 months.....Growth on long-haul lines in the U.S. was even slower, at 47 percent. The big increase came in regions where the Internet is less mature. Traffic between the U.S. and Lati...
Date: Sep-05-2008
Contributed by: John Daly

2. Google Announces Chrome, its new web browser
Google launched the beta version of Google Chrome on Tuesday, September 2 in more than 100 countries. The browser is to be open source. Google, which has collaborated with Mozilla in maintaining and improving the Firefox browser has recently signed an agreement to continue in that effort. A comic is...
Date: Sep-02-2008
Contributed by: John Daly

3. First Working Group on Cyber Law in India
'On public request, a "Working Group on Cyber Law in India" is in the process of being constituted that would take care of the legal enablement of ICT systems in India. The same would consist of leading Organisations, Institutions, Industrial and Professional Bodies, Members of Civil Society and...
Date: Sep-02-2008
Contributed by: Imran Uddin

4. Targeting and Retargeting in the U.S. Presidential Campaign in Cyberspace
Recent visitors to the online sports pages of the Boston Herald who had visited Barack Obama's Web site received as many as three Obama ads alongside the news. Readers who hadn't visited his site didn't see a single Obama add. Both presidential campaigns are reluctant to discuss the details of th...
Date: Aug-31-2008
Contributed by: John Daly

Events records
1. IEEE/ACM ICTs and Development '09 Conference
Conference paper submissions for the 3rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2009) are due by 22ND SEPTEMBER 2008. Submissions can be made via: http://ictd2009.confmaster.net/ Author instructions are available at: http://ictd200...
Date: Sep-04-2008
Contributed by: Richard Heeks

2. 2nd International Conference on Theory and Practice for Electronic Governance (ICEGOV2008)
The 2nd International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV2008) will take place in Cairo, Egypt during 1 - 4 December 2008, co-organized by United Nations University IIST Center for Electronic Governance, and German University in Cairo. The conference will continue purs...
Date: Sep-04-2008
Contributed by: adegboyega ojo