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Regional good practices: Accelerating innovation, entrepreneurship and digital transformation in the Asia-Pacific region
Geneva: ITU (2021), viii, 80 pp.
"This report provides an overview of the innovation capacity of the Asia-Pacific region through ICT-centric innovation activity and offers an insight to how good practice can strengthen Member State capacity to integrate ICT innovation into development agendas.
Although the Asia-Pacific region has a
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Informal Youth Employment in the Mobile Industry in Sub-Saharan Africa
London: GSMA (2021), 48 pp.
Regional good practices: Accelerating innovation, entrepreneurship and digital transformation in the Arab States region
Geneva: ITU (2021), viii, 79 pp.
"This report provides an overview of the comparative innovation capacity of the Arab States region through ICT-centric innovation policy monitors, and an insight into how good practices can strengthen capacity to mainstream ICT innovation into national development agendas. It showcases a number of c
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Regional good practices: Accelerating innovation, entrepreneurship and digital transformation in the Americas region
Geneva: ITU (2021), viii, 70 pp.
"This report provides an overview of the comparative innovation capacity of the Americas region through ICT-centric innovation policy monitors and insights on how good practice can strengthen capacity to integrate ICT innovation into national development agendas.
Overall, the Americas region has sho
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Digital Entrepreneurship in Africa: How a Continent is Escaping Silicon Valley's Long Shadow
Cambridge: MIT Press (2020), 323 pp.
"In recent years, Africa has seen a digital entrepreneurship boom, with hundreds of millions of dollars poured into tech cities, entrepreneurship trainings, coworking spaces, innovation prizes, and investment funds. Politicians and technologists have offered Silicon Valley–influenced narratives of
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How We Worked from Home: Findings from the WFH Experience in Response to the COVID-19 Global Health Crisis in Malaysia
UNDP (2020), 41 pp.
"The findings from the study represent a mixed bag. There is much to celebrate—improved quality of life, enhanced productivity owing to factors such as reduced commute time, and, at scale, the evident reduction of the pollution load on the planet. Further, it sheds light on the possibility that gi
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Women in Tech: Inspiration, no Fairy Tales
Bonn: Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) (2019), 72 pp.
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
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Tech Trendscouting Toolkit: Or How to Become a Tech Trendscout for Digital Innovation with Social Impact in Africa
Bonn; Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2019), 44 pp.
Aufbruch im Silicon Wadi
welt-sichten, issue 12 (2019), pp. 61-63
"In der jordanischen Hauptstadt Amman blühen digitale Start-ups. Die hohe Arbeitslosigkeit lindert das kaum. Doch junge Leute bringen damit neue Ideen in Jordaniens Geschäftswelt." (Seite 61)
What Motivates ICT4D Champions?
Dar es Salaam: 15th International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries (ICT4D) (2019), 12 pp.
"The paper seeks to identify the factors that motivate a person who champions ICT4D initiatives. Given the important contributions of ICT4D champions to initiative success, better understanding of their motivations holds the potential to identify, develop and deploy such individuals more effectively
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From Russia with Code: Programming Migrations in Post-Soviet Times
Durham: Duke University Press (2019), xii, 373 pp.
"While Russian computer scientists are notorious for their interference in the 2016 US presidential election, they are ubiquitous on Wall Street and coveted by international IT firms and often perceive themselves as the present manifestation of the past glory of Soviet scientific prowess. Drawing on
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Women's Pathways to the Digital Sector: Stories of Opportunities and Challenges
Bonn: Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) (2017), 51 pp.
How to Teach Entrepreneurship to Communication and Creative Industries Students
Business Development Laboratory Study Module for Creative Industries (CreBiz);Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia (ISCTE) (2016), 40 pp.
"The objective of the Study Module is to enhance the business knowledge of undergraduate and graduate students of arts, humanities and media and communications, i.e. individuals, who have potential to be (self) employed after their graduation in the field of creative industries. Special focus in the
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Local Content Production and the Political Economy of the Mobile App Industries in Argentina and Bolivia
New Media & Society, volume 18, issue 8 (2016), pp. 1768-1786
"This article examines the targets and activities of mobile app developers in two Latin American economies – Argentina and Bolivia – analysing the political, social and economic conditions that connect or disconnect app developers and the interests of local users. Findings suggest that app distr
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Toward Entrepreneurial Behavior in Underserved Communities: An Ethnographic Decision Tree Model of Telecenter Usage
Information Technology for Development, volume 19, issue 3 (2013), pp. 230-248
"This paper investigates the decision-making process of community members who decide on using telecenters for entrepreneurial endeavors. A qualitative approach through interviews with telecenter staff and users is used to assess the barriers and enablers to economic activity through use of telecente
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Tunisia: From Revolutions to Institutions
Washington, DC: infoDev Information for Development Program (2012), 121 pp.
"The study “Tunisia: from revolutions to institutions” stresses how technology-oriented small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) can generate economic expansion and job growth, including in the economically-isolated interior provinces. Tunisian ICT companies are likely to find an attractive marke
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Information and Communications for Development: Maximizing Mobile
Washington, DC: World Bank (2012), xviii, 221 pp.
"Analyzes the growth and evolution of mobile telephony, including the rise of data-based services delivered to handheld devices through “apps” (applications) and other ways. Summarizing current thinking and seeking to inform the debate on the use of mobile phones to improve livelihoods, the repo
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The Digital Dump: Exporting Re-Use and Abuse to Africa
Seattle: Basel Action Network (BAN) (2005), 42 pp. + annexes
How to Set Up and Operate a Successful Computer Refurbishment Centre in Africa: A Planning and Management Guide. Prepared as Part of the Catalysing Access to ICT in Africa (CATIA) Programme, UK Department for International Development (DFID): Component 2a - Open Source Software and Low-Cost Computing
Cape Town: bridges.org (2004), 39 pp. + annexes
