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World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report 2010: Monitoring the WSIS Targets - a Midterm Review
Geneva: ITU (2010), xxxvi, 217 pp.
"The year 2010 marks the midpoint between the Tunis phase of WSIS (2005) and the deadline for achieving the WSIS targets (2015), in line with the target date of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report presents a mid-term review of the progress mad
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The Innovative Use of Mobile Applications in East Africa
Deep Insights
Stockholm: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2010), 100 pp.
"This report gives an overview of the current state of mobile phone use and services in East Africa. It outlines major trends and main obstacles for increased use as well as key opportunities and potential for upscaling mobile applications. The report draws on secondary data and statistics, as well
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ICTs and Development in Zambia: Challenges and Opportunities
London: Panos London (2010), 8 pp.
Measuring the Information Society: The ICT Development Index
Geneva: ITU (2009), viii, 96 pp.
"In the developing world, mobile phones have revolutionised telecommunication and have reached an estimated average 49.5 per cent penetration rate at the end of 2008 – from close to zero only ten years ago. This is not only faster than any other technology in the past, but the mobile phone is also
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Background Paper for Identifying the Best Practice of ICT Implementations in Asia and the Pacific
ESCAP (2009), 36 pp.
"Based on the above preliminary research on the current status of the digital divide, latest and emerging technologies, and ICT for development initiatives in Asia and the Pacific, this report concludes that the LDCs, LLDCs and SIDS still face numerous difficulties in terms of implementation of ICT
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Development Through Electronic Networks: Information and Communication Technologies in Africa
Deep Insights
Berlin: German Bundestag, Office of Technology Assessment (2009), 268 pp.
"Following an initiative of the Committee on Economic Co-operation and Development, the Office of Technology Assessment (TAB) at the German Bundestag (i.e. the German parliament) has carried out a project on the relevance of the Internet and other new information and communication technologies (ICTs
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Information and Communications for Development 2009: Extending Reach and Increasing Impact
Washington, DC: World Bank (2009), xix, 316 pp.
"This report analyzes the benefits of extending access to ICT in the developing world; of mainstreaming ICT applications, particularly in the area of e-government; and of trading services based on information technology. It also features at-a-glance tables for 150 economies of the latest available d
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The ICT4D 2.0 Manifesto: Where Next for ICTs and International Development?
Manchester: University of Manchester, Institute for Development Policy and Management, Development Informatics Group (2009), 33 pp.
"In conclusion and above all, we can see that ICT4D 2.0 is about reframing the poor. Where ICT4D 1.0 marginalised them, allowing a supply-driven focus, ICT4D 2.0 centralises them, creating a demand-driven focus. Where ICT4D 1.0 – fortified by the "bottom of the pyramid" concept – characterised t
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Mobiles for Development: How Mobile Technologies Can Enhance Plan and Partners in Africa
Helsinki: Plan Finland (2009), 44 pp.
"This guide provides an overview of relevant and innovative examples of how mobile telephones have been successfully integrated into development projects and processes; and a three stage process to help Plan staff and other development practitioners identify the key social, economic and technical fa
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Information and Communication Technologies for Women’s Socioeconomic Empowerment
Washington, DC: World Bank (2009), ix, 86 pp.
Final Report: Outcome Evaluation of the Information & Communications Technology for Development (ICT4D) Project of UNDP Multi-Country Office (MCO) Based in Samoa
Samoa: UNDP Multi-Country Office (MCO) (2009), ii, 61 pp.
"This report is an outcome evaluation of the UNDP MCO Samoa’s ICT for Development (ICT4D) project operating in the Cook Islands, Niue and Samoa from 2005-8. The consultant Robert Boase of Canada evaluated the project from November 18 to December 20, 2008 with one week missions to each country and
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Literature Review on the Impact of Public Access to Information and Communication Technologies
Seattle: University of Washington, Center for Information & Society (CIS) (2009), 25 pp.
"This report presents a review of empirical research on the impacts of public access to ICTs in order to document what is known about this approach to ICT service delivery. The results show that there is limited conclusive evidence on downstream impacts of public access to ICTs. The evidence that do
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Mobile phones and community development: A contact zone between media and citizenship
Development in Practice, volume 19, issue 4-5 (2009), pp. 585-597
"Mobile phones have already been used widely around the world for activism, social and economic development, and new cultural and communicative forms. Despite this widespread use of mobile phones, they remain a relatively un-theorised and un-discussed phenomenon in community and citizen’s media. T
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Virtual Change: Indicators for Assessing the Impact of ICTs in Development
Rome: FAO (2009), ix, 38 pp.
ICT4D: Information and Communication Technology for Development
Deep Insights
Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press (2009), xiv, 386 pp.
"ICT4D provides an authoritative account of the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in contemporary development practice. It combines theory with practical guidance – including both a conceptual framework for understanding the rapid development of ICT4D. Case studies provide d
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Information Society Policies: Annual Report 2009
Paris: UNESCO, Information for All Programme (2009), 61 pp.
"The IFAP Annual World Report 2009 offers an overview of major international and national policy documents and highlights the most important trends of the information society during the last year. Information Society Policies. Annual World Report 2009 was written by researchers from the Information
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