You
can hear me now: how micro-loans and cell phones
are connecting the worlds poor to the global
economy
Bangladeshi villagers sharing
cell phones helped build what is now a thriving
company with more than $200 million in annual
profits. But what is the lesson for the rest of
the world? This is a questi...
New
issue of ICT Update: Coping with climate
change
Developing countries will suffer
far more from the impacts of global warming than
the big polluters in Europe and North America.
In this issue of ICT Update, a few of such
pioneering activities in AC...
Womens
literacy and information and communication
technologies: lessons that experience has taught
us
The past decade has witnessed an
explosion in projects that have applied ICTs to
support socioeconomic development. Thus every
sector has been involved- government, academia,
large corporations, inte...
New
website: African Development Information
Services
AfDevInfo is a one-stop shop for
structured data on the political and economic
infrastructures of Sub-Saharan Africa drawing
together all publicly accessible data on
organisations and people and pres...
India's
New One- Stop Education Portal
The
Ministry of Human Resource Development in India
recently introduced Sakshat, an education portal
that provides answers to education queries and
allows users to participate in real time virtual
cl...
East
African universities to gain from web tools
deal
A software deal signed between
universities in East Africa and the US-based
internet giant Google will improve access to
web-based communications for staff and students.
Commonwe
alth of Learnings resource CD-Rom
The
Commonwealth of Learning (COL) has updated its
CD-ROM of most popular resource publications,
news and software.
Towards
an African e- Index: How small and medium sized
enterprises in Africa cope with ICTs
A
group called Research ICT Africa! (RIA) has
published a new chapter in its 2006 report
'Towards an African e-Index: SME e-Access and
Usage Across 14 African countries'. The survey
carried out betwe...
Fighting
poverty with profit; the BiD Challenge 2007 is
opened!
Will you make poverty reduction
YOUR business? The 3rd edition of the Business
in Development (BiD) Challenge starts on April
2th and challenges everyone to write a business
plan for an enterprise in...
Calling
for ideas! The ICT Best Practices Forum: West
and Central Africa
If all of the IT
innovations of various African countries were to
be integrated into one single country, it will
be the 12th most advanced country in the world
with respect to the use of technology. ...
The
important role of telecentres and/or community
ICTs in Zambian rural development
This
article is an effort to provide some inputs
towards opening dialogue and initiate meaningful
discussions among the Zambian civil society that
may lead to concretizing efforts towards
promotion, ...
ITIF
Releases Digital Prosperity
The
Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
today released a report that finds that
information and communications technologies (IT)
have been the primary engine of economic growth.
