Open Access lowering the costs of international bandwidth in Africa
This APC issue paper, written by Mike Jensen, looks at the cost and availability of bandwidth in Africa.

Online African Studies Thesaurus launched
The African Studies Centre (ASC) Leiden, the Netherlands, has presented its new African Studies Thesaurus at www.ascleiden.nl/Library/Thesaurus/.

Content Divide: New Challenge for Rural ICT Initiatives
The challenge to overcome the digital divide has been deepening in recent times in most developing countries, specifically with regards to the challenge of the availability of local content.

Mobile phones in Africa: Buy, cell, hold
A plan is afoot to create a pan-African market based on mobile phones.

Empowering communities through the use of technology
If Industry, Technology Energy and Commerce Minister, Phillip Paulwell, has his way, Jamaicans in every corner of the island will have access to computer technology, including high-speed Internet, se...

New ITU head has no ambitions to run internet
The new head of the United Nations' telecoms agency said he has no plans to increase his body's role in the governance of the internet. He would prefer the current coalition of groups running the int...

Networking for learning: The human face of knowledge management?
This Policy Management Brief has been designed to summarise and complement electronically shared materials and to foster debate on aspects of evidence-based communications and learning.

Empowering the Poor
Information and Communications Technology for Governance and Poverty Reduction - A Study of Rural Development Projects in India. It is widely believed that information and communications technology (...

GTP represented in UN Steering Committee on Global Alliance for ICT and Development
The Joint Program Manager of the Global teenager Project, Ms. Titi Akinsanmi has been selected as a member of the first ever United Nations Global Alliance for ICT and Development (UN-GAID). The Stee...

Regional Development Fair: the Karid?ce project selected for innovation awards by the World Bank
On 14-15 November 2006, Association Songtaab- Yalgr?ASY) from Burkina Faso confirmed its leading position in the shea (karite) industry by winning three major awards in a competition that attracted...

Encouraging life-long learning through formulating ICT4D projects
Six to eight weeks after a Round Table workshop, IICD's training partners in Africa or Latin America take participants through the 'Life-Long Learning' intensive short course. The training helps make...

Easy Guide to the Internet in Uganda
Increasingly the Internet has become a fact of everyday life for vast numbers of Ugandans who use it explicitly, or even implicitly, as they go about their everyday lives. Users and usage alike are i...

La VoIP au Burkina
Le samedi 09 decembre 2006 s'est tenu a Splendide hotel un seminaire organise par l'Institut International pour la communication (IICD) en partenariat avec ZCP informatique sur le theme : �..

ICT helps to improve agricultural sector in Jamaica
The agricultural sector in Jamaica employs approximately 19% of Jamaicas labour force and accounts for more than one-tenth of its merchandise exports. The sector currently faces the challenge of i...

ICTs for Whose Development?
A critical analysis of the discourses surrounding an ICT for Development Initiative for a group of micro- enterprise entrepreneurs operating in the Jamaican tourism industry: Towards the development o...

Another award for article on ICT4D by Burkina Faso network
Again a price is awarded to a journalist from Burkina Faso NTIC, the national network on information and communication technology (ICT) and development in Burkina Faso. Roukiattou Ouedraogo received ...

Un reporter de Burkina NTIC prim�
Dans le cadre du projet "les m�dias Ouest-africain et les enjeux des NTIC", une formation annuelle par pays est pr�vue au B�nin, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, S�n�gal, Togo.

The Global Teenager Project: Gender and online collaborative learning
The Global Teenager Project (GTP) is an inter- classroom exchange of information and ideas. Originally established in 1999 by the International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) it ai...

Puppet goat newsreader covers food security, grain prices
Every month, people across Burkina Faso stop what they are doing to watch TV Koodo, a TV show broadcasting market prices for cattle and cereals. The programme's host is the �Charming Ch�vrina� � as everyone calls her.