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Digital Ecosystem Country Assessment (DECA): Colombia

Lauren Bieniek, Kate Dimsdale, Craig Jolley, Fernando Maldonado

USAID, Digital Frontiers Project (2020), 43 pp.

"[...] The DECA is a decision-making tool to help USAID Missions, their partners, and other relevant stakeholders identify the opportunities, maximize the benefits, and manage the risks associated with digital technology. The goal is to help USAID’s partner countries along their journey to self-re ... more

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Threat Modeling Guide: How to Identify Digital Risks in International Development Projects
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Daniel Moßbrucker

Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2020), 52 pp.

"Each section of this guide will explore another dimension of digital security—assets, attackers, risks and likelihood—and address these key questions: What do I want to protect? Who are my attackers? Is my attacker able to succeed? How likely is it that my attacker will succeed? Threat modeling ... more

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Continuing the Conversation: Lessons from APC's Subgranting Experience

Alan Finlay

Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2020), 52 pp.

"Subgranting is a readily accessible source of short- to medium-term financial support for organisations. It offers a flexibility in disbursing funds that is not often found in donors. It catalyses change in organisations. It can serve as “seed funding”, allowing new organisations to become know ... n in an advocacy space. It allows for experimentation, innovation, and unpredictability. It allows organisations to strengthen the work they are already doing, and empowers them to seek funding elsewhere based on new experiences and knowledge. • Transparency in deciding how funds are disbursed is essential. APC has tried different models for subgranting, including a centralised decision-making model, which offers autonomy for member organisations to decide on a project’s focus within a broad framework of shared objectives; a decentralised model with a thematic focus, working with members and new partners; and a collective decision-making model, that is issue based, working with a network of like-minded activists. There is no one-size-fits-all approach, and the most appropriate mechanisms for transparency might depend on the size of the project or initiative, and the overall objectives of the subgranting work. • Clear communication is necessary for meeting concrete deliverables, for growing a community or network, and for transparency. Make sure meanings are aligned and shared, even in like-minded networks. This streamlines the process, avoids disappointment, and ensures clearer outcomes. • Subgranting can be used effectively for outreach to meet and work with new organisations at the local level, growing a network or membership base, and increasing the profile of an organisation at the grassroots level. • Thematically focused or issue-based subgranting programmes can encourage a greater level of interaction between organisations, and allow cross-border advocacy with the potential of amplifying advocacy impact. However, collaboration needs to be created – it does not happen on its own. It requires processes and specific considerations, such as the type of decision-making structure to follow, thatcreate the context for cooperation to happen." (Key lessons from APC’s subgranting work, pgae 50) more

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Using Big Data for Evaluating Development Outcomes: A Systematic Map

Francis Rathinam, Sayak Khatua, Zeba Siddiqui, Manya Malik, Pallavi Duggal, Samantha Watson, Xavier Vollenweider

Centre of Excellence for Development Impact and Learning (CEDIL) (2020), vi, 104 pp.

"Spatially and temporally relevant ‘big data’ that does not require data collection in the field has the potential to provide insights into people’s economic, social, behavioural and political lives, and hence could be used in measuring key development outcomes. Big data consists of humangener ... more

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Mobile for Development: Reducing Inequalities in Our World

London: GSMA (2020), 31 pp.

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ICT Aid Flows from China to African Countries: A Communication Network Perspective

Rong Wang, François Bar, Yu Hong

International Journal of Communication, volume 14 (2020), pp. 1-25

"The challenge in evaluating China’s foreign aid has always been the unavailability of reliable data sets. This study constitutes the first analysis of the AidData data set from a communication network perspective. It examines China’s development aid to Africa in the ICT sector from 2000 to 2014 ... more

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Road Map for Digital Cooperation: Implementation of the Recommendations of the High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation

United Nations General Assembly (2020), 20 pp.

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ICT4D 3.0? Part 1—The Components of an Emerging “Digital-For-Development” Paradigm

Richard Heeks

Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries (EJISDC), volume 86, issue 3 (2020), 15 pp.

"What has changed in the decade or so since the ideas of a new “ICT4D 2.0” phase were first mooted? This paper reviews those changes, based on a new framework model. At a foundational level, it looks at recent and current trends in digital technologies, data, processes and the implications these ... more

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Digital Ecosystem Country Assessment (DECA): Kenya

Molly Dean, Kwasi Donkor, Amy Paul, Olu Olutolak

USAID, Digital Frontiers Project (2020), 42 pp.

"Kenya’s digital ecosystem has significant strengths not yet fully leveraged: • Political interest in digital technology at national and county level: The Government of Kenya’s (GoK) digital economy blueprint, ICT Masterplan, and eCitizen (government service platform for Kenyan citizens and re ... more

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Drivers of data for development: Exploring the factors that enable availability and utility of open data for development in Africa

Amos Simche Lansana, Claude Migisha, Dickson Minjire et al.

Africa Open Data Network (AODN) (2020), 83 pp.

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Releasing the power of digital data for development: A guide to new opportunities

London: Frontier Technologies;Department for International Development (DFID) (2020), 170 pp.

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ICTD Research in Latin America: Literature Review, Scholar Feedback, and Recommendations

Caroline Stratton, David Nemer

Information Technology for Development, volume 26, issue 4 (2020), pp. 692-710

"Reviews of the ICTD literature have noted a scarcity of studies about Latin American countries. We investigate (1) what are the alternatives to ICTD and English-language ICTD publication venues researchers utilize to disseminate their work and why they may do so, and (2) what methodological, theore ... more

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Digital Defenders Partnership: Strategy 2020-2023

Hivos (2020), 36 pp.

"Seven years since the establishment of the Digital Defenders Partnership by the Freedom Online Coalition, the challenges to Human Rights and Internet Freedom globally have mounted, while the movements in their defence remain diverse, creative, and resilient. In this context, DDP has evolved to beco ... more

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Information and Communications for Development 2018: Data-Driven Development

Washington, DC: World Bank (2019), xxi, 152 pp.

"This report shows how governments in developing countries can enhance their use of data to provide better services to citizens. It also shows how the business sector is starting to capitalize on data for competitive advantage. For citizens, the report argues that new tools can allow them to take mo ... more

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Sustainable Digitalization: Guidelines for a Digitalization We Need for the Future We Want

Berlin: German NGO Forum on Environment and Development (2019), 8 pp.

"If digitalization truly is an element of great social change, it has to be sustainable, fair, and relevant to all people and working for the common good. Without proper discussions on benefits or risk, without democratic control and regulations, technologies have the potential to lead to more and n ... more

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Was Bits und Bäume verbindet: Digitalisierung nachhaltig gestalten

Anja Höfner, Vivian Frick (eds.)

München: oekom Verlag (2019), 144 pp.

"Knapp 2.000 Menschen zog die ‹Bits & Bäume› im November 2018 an die Technische Universität Berlin. Dieser Zuspruch verdeutlicht die Lücke, die wir mit unserer Veranstaltung gefüllt haben: Digitalisierung und Nachhaltigkeit als zwei wesentliche aktuelle Herausforderungen unserer Gesellscha ... more

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Checklist for the Development of Portals for International Development

Sarah Cummings, Nancy White, Michiel Schoenmakers, Victor van Reijswoud, Martine Koopman, Chris Zielinski, Cavin Mugarura, Ramin Assaand, Srividya Harish

Knowledge Management for Development Journal, volume 14, issue 1 (2019), pp. 83-94

"This guideline has been developed by the authors in a collaborative manner over the period May 2018-May 2019 in consultation with the Knowledge Management for Development (KM4Dev) community. It is designed to provide guidance for development organizations who are setting up portals –also known as ... more

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Impact Report 2017-2019: Make-IT in Africa. Successfully Promoting Tech Entrepreneurship and the Innovation Ecosystems of Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria and Tunisia

Bonn; Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2019), 71 pp.

"Make-IT started as a "laboratory" for new types of partnerships between development organisations, business, finance and entrepreneurs. After 2 years of implementation experience, we can proudly say that we have successfully combined the strengths of the public and private sectors to promote digita ... more

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Tech Trendscouting Toolkit: Or How to Become a Tech Trendscout for Digital Innovation with Social Impact in Africa

Asmaa Guedira, Geraldine de Bastion, Tolu Agunbiade, Yatan Blumenthal-Vargas

Bonn; Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2019), 44 pp.

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Glossar: Digitalisierung in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit. Fachbegriffe aus der digitalen Welt für die Entwicklungszusammenarbeit

Bonn, Berlin: Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) (2019), 108 pp.

Threat Modeling Guide: How to Identify Digital Risks in International Development Projects Key Guidance

Threat Modeling Guide: How to Identify Digital Risks in International Development Projects
Key Guidance