• The Internet brings on the participative video in Burkina Faso
• Web 2.0 in the service of participatory democracy
• Ipath as an electronic pathology
• Technology is making a difference, yes but related challenges abound
• Open Source technology opens to Zambians

Capacity.org: Accountability relationships for development success
In this issue of Capacity.org the focus is on the question: what initiatives citizens can take to hold decision makers, service providers and development practitioners accountable to their commitment...

AirJaldi: empowering communities through wireless networks
High speed Internet access has changed the world immeasurably. A dazzling array of divides have been bridged - from educational and political to cultural and linguistic. Some gaps have not been narro...

The ABC of ICT4D: How best to understand information and communication technologies for development
Through experience we know people who earn as little as R1000 a month and who also have a cell-phone. Living on this amount a month means people are living above the poverty line of R14 (US$2) a day....

ICT Success Stories website
This portal is designed to highlight some of the ongoing and successful ICT development projects taking place around the world. You will find links to specific overviews on how ICTs, and internet in ...

Measuring the information society: ICT indicators for development
UNCTAD member States recognize that it is crucial to assess the state of use and impact of ICTs in developing countries. By using comparable and reliable data and indicators on their information soci...

NationMaster statistics
NationMaster is a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. NationMaster is a vast compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD. You...

KM4Dev Journal: Stewarding technologies for collaboration, community building and knowledge sharing in development
This edition of the Knowledge Management for Development Journal explores how international development practitioners find new ways to work together using Internet technologies. The lens used in all ...

Tanzania: City Launches Own Local Internet Exchange Point
Arusha has just become the first non-capital urban center in East and Central Africa to have its own Internet Exchange Point, a physical infrastructure that allows different Internet Service Provider...

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Access to Learning Award; Accepting Applications for 2008 Award
The Access to Learning Award honors innovative organizations that are opening a world of online information to people in need.

Web portal standards for Uganda
Uganda has become the first country in the region to launch the East African Community (EAC) quality Web portal on standardization, quality assurance, metrology and testing (SQMT).

Theories and models of and for online learning
For many years, discussion of online learning, or e-learning, has been pre-occupied with the practice of teaching online and the debate about whether being online is 'as good as' being offline.

New issue of ICT Update on refurbished computers: an opportunity not to be wasted
Specialist charities and businesses, and increasingly computer manufacturers, are taking old computers and shipping them out to organizations in developing countries whose budgets do not stretch to t...

Scaling Telecenters for Development: Extensive interview with Barbara Fillip and Mark Surman
Barbara Fillip from the Academy for Educational Development (AED) and Mark Surman from Telecentre.org, accepted to answer questions in a very complete and extensive interview for the ICT4D dgCommunit...

Wireless Networking in the Developing World
A practical guide to planning and building low-cost telecommunications infrastructure. According to WNDW, by applying Wireless technology in areas that are badly in need of critical communications in...

Mobile phones change the media landscape in Africa
AfricaNews (www.africanews.com) starts working with mobile phone reporters. The mobile reporters cover current events in their area, using the mobile phones to produce video footage, written reports ...

Maps help manage Zambian water resources
Zambian water authorities are using information from satellite images to improve management of water resources in the country.

Digital Poverty: Latin American and Caribbean Perspectives
This book represents the first publication of the Regional Dialogue on the Information Society (DIRSI), a regional network of leading researchers concerned with the creation and dissemination of kn...

AfricaNews starts working with mobile reporters; Mobile phones change the media landscape in Africa
AfricaNews (www.africanews.com) starts working with mobile phone reporters. The mobile reporters cover current events in their area, using the mobile phones to produce video footage, written reports ...

Global Young Social Entrepreneurs' Competition deadline extended to 9 September 2007
The most famous social entrepreneur today is 2006 Nobel prize winner Mohammad Yunus. Less famous, but equally inspirational are young up-coming social entrepreneurs - over 500 have so far applied und...