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Digital Inclusion
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Digital Divide, Digital Inequalities
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Telecommunication Infrastructure
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Electronic Commerce
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ICT Industries & Markets
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Digital Economies & Markets
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Freedom of Expression Online, Internet Freedom
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Digital Media Markets
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Civic Engagement, Citizen Participation, Civil Society & Digital Communication
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ICT / Internet Projects (Development Aid)
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United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
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Economic Development: Role of ICTs & Media
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Internet & ICTs in Rural Areas
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Cybersecurity, Digital Safety, Privacy, Right to Privacy
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Digital Healthcare & Information, Mobile Health, E-Health, Telemedicine
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Educational Use of ICTs / Internet
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ICT Policies
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ICTs and Poverty Reduction
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ICT Development Assistance: Donors
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Civil Society
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Conflict-Sensitive Digital Technology Use & Social Media in Prevention & Transformation
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Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
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Media Assistance: Digital Journalism & Social Media
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Digitalization, Environment & Sustainable Development
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ICT4D: Evaluation, Monitoring, Impact Assessment
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Millenium Development Goals (MDG)
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Governance & Accountability: Role of Digital Communication
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Digital Financial Services, Mobile Banking, Mobile Payphone Business
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Digitalization, Digital Transformation
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ICT Effects & Impact
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Information Society
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Microcredits, Microfinance, Small-Scale Loans
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Climate Change Communication, Climate Journalism
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Internet Governance, Internet Policies
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Project Impact, Project Effects, Project Effectiveness, Project Efficiency
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Internet Bandwith, Broadband & Backbone Networks
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Mobile Phones, Smartphones
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Mobile Phone Use for Social Purposes, Mobiles for Development
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Open Data
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Digital Activism, Cyber Advocacy
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Empowerment
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Agriculture & ICTs, e-Agriculture
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Digital & Social Media Use, Internet Use
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Digital & Social Media Use: Youth
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Communication Rights
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Digital Media Censorship, Control & Filtering, Internet & Social Media Censorship
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Digital Rights
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Community Development: Role of Communication & Media
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Community Radios
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Participatory Communication
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Telecentres, Community Telecentres, Internet Cafés
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Conflict Areas: Media Systems, Media Landscapes, Role of Media
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Information For All Programme (IFAP/UNESCO)
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Internet
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Social / Digital Media and ICTs in Disaster & Humanitarian Crisis Management & Prevention
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Online Learning, E-Learning
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Female ICT Sector Personnel / Professionals
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Mobile Phone Markets
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World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
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Information Exchange
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Information Transfer
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Media, Mass Media
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Small States: Media Systems & Media Landscapes
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Human Rights Protection
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Scaling
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Deaf & Hard of Hearing People
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Parliaments
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Media Effects
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Social Aspects
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Informatics
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Förderung von Digitalisierung in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit. Antwort der Bundesregierung auf die Kleine Anfrage der Abgeordneten Markus Frohnmaier, Stefan Keuter und der Fraktion der AfD
Deutscher Bundestag, 19. Wahlperiode (2019), 31 pp.
More Digital, More Impact: How Digital Transformation Boosts Impact of Projects in the Asia, Pacific, Latin America, and the Caribbean Regions
Bonn; Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2019), 25 pp.
SDG Digital Investment Framework: A Whole-of-Government Approach to Investing in Digital Technologies to Achieve the SDGs
Geneva: ITU (2019), 134 pp.
"This paper sets out an SDG Digital Investment Framework which is intended to be the start of a new dialogue with the digital investment community, building on the global Call to Action presented at the UN General Assembly in 2018. It encourages a whole-of-government approach and sets out to help go
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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.
BMZ Toolkit 2.0: Digitalisierung in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
Key Guidance
Bonn, Berlin: Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) (2019), 221 pp.
Digitalisierung für Entwicklung
Bonn: Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) (2019), 16 pp.
Pooling Aid Sector Demand for Digital Public Goods: Lessons from Sizing Mobile Channel Demand in Sub-Saharan Africa
Digital Impact Alliance (dial);Altai Consulting (2019), 38 pp.
"We started by performing fieldwork in five countries, covering the four main SSA regions: the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Ghana, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda. We then conducted 116 interviews across 78 organizations, covering the overall ecosystem: mobile network operators (MNOs), aggreg
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Tech for Good: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen digitaler Instrumente in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit von Nichtregierungsorganisationen
Berlin: Verband Entwicklungspolitik deutscher Nichtregierungsorganisationen (VENRO) (2019), 39 pp.
"Längst hat der digitale Wandel auch die Entwicklungszusammenarbeit und die Humanitäre Hilfe verändert. Das Internet bietet die Chance, die Lebensbedingungen vieler Menschen durch Zugang zu Wissen und zu neuen Möglichkeiten der politischen und ökonomischen Teilhabe zu verbessern. Auch Nichtregi
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Empowerment as Development: An Outline of an Analytical Concept for the Study of ICTs in the Global South
In: Handbook of Communication for Development and Social Change
Jan Servaes (ed.)
Singapore: Springer (2018), 19 pp.
"It is a certainty that the proliferation of ICTs (mobile phones in particular) has opened up a range of possibilities and new avenues for individuals, aid agencies, and NGOs. However, overviews of communication supposedly for development reveal a field based on economic understandings of developmen
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Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D)
Top Insights
London; New York: Routledge (2018), xviii, 410 pp.
"The first three chapters set out the foundations of ICT4D: the core relation between ICTs and development; the underlying components needed for ICT4D to work; and best practice in implementing ICT4D. Five chapters then analyse key development goals: economic growth, poverty eradication, social deve
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Social Tech Ecosystems in Sub-Saharan Africa
Top Insights
Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute (M-ITI) (2018), 86 pp.
"Around the world diverse actors are working to develop technology that directly improves social conditions. This report refers to these types of technology as ‘social tech’. Examples of social tech include anti-corruption systems for citizens to report bribes; communications platforms for refug
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From Simple Fixes to Systemic Enablers: The Future of Digital Development
Brighton: Institute of Development Studies (IDS) (2018), 16 pp.
"Far too often the implicit theory of change in digital developments, as with technology for development more generally, is that importing technologies can fix development. This does not acknowledge the political and social transformations that are needed to address and overcome economic and power a
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Appropriating Technology for Accountability: Messages from 'Making All Voices Count'
Brighton: Institute of Development Studies (IDS) (2018), 30 pp.
"The most important messages on the roles technologies can play in enabling citizen voice and accountable and responsive governance are: 1. Not all voices can be expressed via technologies. 2. Technologies can play decisive roles in improving services where the problem is a lack of planning data or
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Donor Organizations and the Principles for Digital Development: A Landscape Assessment and Gap Analysis
London: Jigsaw Consult (2018), 39 pp.
"This study engages with a comprehensive spectrum of stakeholders within the development and aid sectors around the role of digital, and the ideals that guide that role. The Principles for Digital Development, stewarded by Digital Impact Alliance, and the community of endorsers present a key forum f
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Action Steps: A Decade of Civil Society Advocacy in the Information Society. A Baseline Review of the Global Information Society Watch Country Reports (2007-2017)
Association for Progressive Communications (APC);International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2018), 80 pp.
"This review looks back over 11 years of civil society advocacy in the information society – a total of 510 country reports published in Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch) from 2007 to 2017. It covers a period of important global shifts, from the exponential growth and influence of social
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Exploiter les opportunités du numérique au profi t du développement rural: Leçons tirées des projets de développement rural fi nancés par l’Allemagne
Bonn, Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2018), 105 pp.
Instrumentalising the Digital: Adolescents’ Engagement with ICTs in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Development in Practice, volume 28, issue 3 (2018), pp. 432-443
"In development agendas regarding children in low-income communities, both older and emerging media are typically ignored or assumed to have beneficial powers that will redress social and gender inequality. This article builds on a recent rapid evidence review on adolescents’ digital media use and
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Reclaiming Information and Communication Technologies for Development
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2017), viii, 226 pp.
"ICTs undoubtedly have the potential to reduce poverty, for example by enhancing education, health delivery, rural develop and entrepreneurship across Africa, Asia and Latin America. However, all too often, projects designed to do so fail to go to scale, and are unsustainable when donor funding ceas
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Digital Principles Into Practice
Dar es Salaam: Human Development Innovation Fund (HDIF) (2017), 15 pp.
"At HDIF, we want to share learning from our own experience to assist players in ICT4D to ensure we are not creating more stacks of unused hardware and limited viability which combine to create a larger wasteland of well-intended development projects. A broad set of donors and partners have combined
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