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Digitalisierung: Zugpferd für Entwicklung?
Weltnachrichten, issue 1 (2021), pp. 4-31
"Digitale Technologien sind wichtige Hebel zur Erreichung der Globalen Ziele für nachhal tige Entwicklung. Die Digitali sierung betrifft die drei Dimen sionen Soziales, Umwelt und Wirtschaft der Agenda 2030 gleichermaßen. Österreichs Freiwilliger Nationaler Bericht zur Umsetzung der Nachhalti gen
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Integrating Cyber Capacity Into the Digital Development Agenda
The Hague: Global Forum on Cyber Expertise Foundation (GFCE); Digital Development Partnership (DDP) (2021), 85 pp.
"This report aims to bridge two communities – the broader development community and the cybersecurity capacity building community – to achieve more resilient outcomes by ensuring incorporation of cybersecurity and digital resilience into digital development activities. This report is a product o
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Emerging technology trends: Artificial intelligence and big data for development 4.0
Geneva: ITU (2021), xv, 87 pp.
"Intended as a guide for policy-makers and other stakeholders in crafting a national AI and data strategy for development, the report highlights opportunities and outlines good policy and regulatory practices for implementation, while also flagging key challenges and offering hands-on suggestions in
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"What are the impacts of expanding mobile broadband coverage on poverty, household consumption and labor market outcomes in developing countries? Who benefits from improved coverage of mobile internet? To respond to these questions, this paper applies a difference-in-differences estimation using pan
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Digitalisierung als Innovationstreiber in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
Bonn: Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) (2021), 16 pp.
"Wir leben in einer zunehmend digitalen Welt. Weltweit nutzen über vier Milliarden Menschen das Internet – seit 2011 hat sich die Zahl fast verdoppelt. Nach aktuellen Schätzungen werden im Jahr 2023 weltweit rund 30 Milliarden Geräte an das Internet angeschlossen sein. Die fortschreitende Digit
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Mobile for Development: Reducing Inequalities in Our World
London: GSMA (2020), 31 pp.
Continuing the Conversation: Lessons from APC's Subgranting Experience
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
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Building Smart Villages: A Blueprint. As Piloted in Niger
Geneva: ITU (2020), xiv, 57 pp.
"This Smart Village Blueprint, piloted in Niger, has been conceived as a practical tool for establishing smart villages. It contributes to the implementation of the Niger 2.0 Smart Villages project, which aims at providing broadband infrastructure to improve Internet access in rural and remote parts
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Digital Strategy 2020-2024
Washington, DC: USAID (2020), 58 pp.
"The digital strategy centers around two core, mutually reinforcing objectives: improve measurable development and humanitarian assistance outcomes through the responsible use of digital technology in USAID’s programming; and strengthen the openness, inclusiveness, and security of country-level di
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ICTD Research in Latin America: Literature Review, Scholar Feedback, and Recommendations
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
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Making Open Development Inclusive: Lessons from IDRC Research
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2020), xiv, 498 pp.
"Making Open Development Inclusive: Lessons from IDRC Research focuses on the connection between openness and inclusion in global development. It brings together the latest research that cuts across a wide variety of political, economic, and social arenas - from governance to education to entreprene
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A Valuing Impact Toolkit for ICT Investment
NEF Consulting; Digital Impact Alliance (dial) (2020), 124 pp.
"ICT4D projects are known for having social, economic, and environmental impacts that are difficult to capture. Investments in digital infrastructure and innovation often have high up-front costs with largely medium-to-long-term benefits, not quick, short-term outcomes desired by policy makers. The
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Using Big Data for Evaluating Development Outcomes: A Systematic Map
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
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"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
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Intervention or Collaboration? Redesigning Information and Communication Technologies for Development
Deep Insights
Amsterdam: Pangea (2020), 359 pp.
"This thesis describes the search for and the design of a field-based approach to ICT4D. Ten years of field and action research in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Ghana have led to a practical approach that guides design and development of information systems. It fosters knowledge exchange between people fr
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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), 107 pp.
"There are 8 conclusions we discuss in this report:
(1) There is justified excitement and proven benefits in the use of new digital data sources, particularly where timeliness of data is important or there are persistent gaps in traditional data sources [...]
(2) In many cases, improvements in a
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ICT4D 3.0? Part 1—The Components of an Emerging “Digital-For-Development” Paradigm
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
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