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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.

Series: Development Informatics. Working Paper Series, 42

ISBN 978-1-905469-11-6

"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 them largely as passive consumers, ICT4D 2.0 sees the poor as active producers and active innovators. Three overarching questions for this next phase therefore emerge. How can the poor be producers of digital content and services? How can they create new incomes and job through ICTs? And how can we recognise and scale the ICT-based innovations they produce?" (Page 29)