e-Health is a facilitator not an alternative to conventional healthcare
Interview with Michael Clarke, Director, Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) at IDRC, Canada: I don't think the application of ICT in healthcare is the solution in i...

ICT in Education Toolkit Launched
InfoDev, UNESCO and partners announce version 2.0 to aid decisionmaking for policymakers, planners and practitioners on technology use in education.

Study on Internet use patterns amongst internationalizing Ghanian exporters
Export firms are critical to the success of developing economies like Ghana. The Internet presents export firms with organizational improvement options and ways by which their value chain activities ...

World Bank gives Africa $164.5 mln for internet connections
The World Bank has approved financing worth $164.5 million for Kenya, Burundi and Madagascar for high- speed internet connections, the bank said on Tuesday.

InfoDev and COL release second set of draft country reports on ICT use in education in Africa
InfoDev and the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) have released a second set of draft country reports from the on-going Survey of ICT and Education in Africa (www.infodev.org/en/Project.7.html), a comprehensive study surveying the current landscape of ICT in education initiatives in Africa.

Ghana Information and Knowledge Sharing Network: GINKS is blogging!
The Ghana Information and Knowledge Sharing Network (GINKS, www.ginks.org) is a constitution of a broad range of people drawn from various fields of...

e-Agriculture should focus on Information over Technology say respondents in recent global survey
A recent global online survey, conducted as a follow- up to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), indicates that improving information and communication processes should be the top prior...