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Promoting Democracy with New Media: Challenges and Opportunities of Development Cooperation

Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2011), 2 pp.
"New fields of action have emerged for those working in Germany’s development cooperation activities that are focused on media. Development cooperation can help new media become an established instrument used by civil society actors who are informed and monitoring political developments. This form ... more
"Examines the actors, structures and themes that shaped the WSIS with a particular focus on the role played by civil society. The book investigates how civil society self-organization has continued post-WSIS through the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) and other policymaking venues, and reflects on w ... more

Information Society Policies: Annual Report 2009

Paris: UNESCO, Information for All Programme (2009), 61 pp.
"The IFAP Annual World Report 2009 offers an overview of major international and national policy documents and highlights the most important trends of the information society during the last year. Information Society Policies. Annual World Report 2009 was written by researchers from the Information ... more

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.
"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 t ... more

Development Through Electronic Networks: Information and Communication Technologies in Africa

Berlin: German Bundestag, Office of Technology Assessment (2009), 268 pp.
"Following an initiative of the Committee on Economic Co-operation and Development, the Office of Technology Assessment (TAB) at the German Bundestag (i.e. the German parliament) has carried out a project on the relevance of the Internet and other new information and communication technologies (ICTs ... more

ICT4D: Learnings, Best Practices and Roadmaps from the Pan Asia ICT R&D Grants Programme

Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) (2009), xii, 148 pp.
"This unique book presents extensive analysis and discussion from the Pan-Asia ICT R&D Grants Programme covering 56 projects in 18 countries across Asia-Pacific. In addition to inputs from the ICT4D project heads, the book features insights from 6 ICT experts who personally visited these projects fo ... more

ICT4D: Information and Communication Technology for Development

Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press (2009), xiv, 386 pp.
"ICT4D provides an authoritative account of the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in contemporary development practice. It combines theory with practical guidance – including both a conceptual framework for understanding the rapid development of ICT4D. Case studies provide d ... more

Digital Review of Asia Pacific: Feedback and Assessment

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2009), 86 pp.
"Mobile phones have already been used widely around the world for activism, social and economic development, and new cultural and communicative forms. Despite this widespread use of mobile phones, they remain a relatively un-theorised and un-discussed phenomenon in community and citizen’s media. T ... more
"This paper begins by analyzing the trends and technologies comprising new media. Social networking sites, new mobile phone technologies, and online broadcasting sites like YouTube are assessed to show how they can be incorporated in media assistance projects. The second section continues to examine ... more
"Entwicklungsländer und moderne Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien (IKT): Wie geht das zusammen? Dieses oft diskutierte, aber selten detailliert untersuchte Thema wird in diesem Buch vor allem anhand Afrikas südlich der Sahara behandelt, einer Weltregion mit erheblichen Entwicklungshemmn ... more

Move Over Bangalore, Here Comes ... Palestine? Western Funding and "Internet Development" in the Shrinking Palestinian State

In: Global Communications: Toward a Transcultural Political Economy
Paula Chakravartty; Yuezhi Zhao (eds.)
Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield (2008), pp. 263-284

HIVOS – IICD Strategic Partnership 2003-2006: Evaluation Report

Hivos;International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) (2007), 108 pp.

Options for Terrestrial Connectivity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2007), 50 pp.
"This report makes an inventory of existing transmission backbones in Sub-Saharan Africa, and discusses issues related to solutions for improved utilization of such networks. Mobile GSM operators in Sub-Saharan Africa are rapidly covering most populated areas with telephone services. To reach new ar ... more

Acacia Prospectus 2006-2011

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2006), 57 pp.
"Acacia’s mission is very straightforward; it is to support research on ICTs that improve livelihood opportunities, enhance social service delivery, and empower citizens while building the capacity of African researchers and research networks. Towards that end, Acacia has identified three core res ... more