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Introduction
On this page you can read the stories selected by our expert panel of judges as finalists and winners based on the guidelines below and which they believe will most contribute to the understanding of the impact that ICTs can make on development. We would like to congratulate all story writers and we highly appreciate their valuable contribution. We hope they will serve to inspire others and teach lessons for future endeavours.
Judges Criteria for Selecting a Winning Story:
- The project involves important issues in the field of ICTs and development;
- The project uses ICTs in a new way: it may use state-of-the-art technology; basic ICTs in a creative way, or; a combination of ICTs and traditional media;
- The project has a significant effect on the sector it is applied to;
- The project serves as a model for other initiatives;
- The story gives a background of the project and describes the incentives for creating it;
- The story clearly specifies the challenges encountered during the project and describes how these challenges were overcome;
- The story includes advice for others.
(All stories below are listed in alphabetical order)
Winners of the ICT Stories Competition 2002
| I thoroughly enjoyed reading many of this year's entries online, and particularly this year's finalists. Judging was difficult, and choosing the top three was nearly impossible. |
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ICT Stories judge Layton
Croft
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Connecting India
Village by Village
Comments of the jury:
| - | A very interesting and successful example of e-government. I wish we could replicate this story in my own country. I think I will contact them to exchange experiences in the near future... |
| - | This is an important initiative that should be replicated. |
Kabissa - Space for change
in Africa
Comments of the jury:
| - | What I liked in Kabissa is the extraordinary collaboration the project got all over Africa. It should be a real lesson for most organizations working in this continent, most of them working in a fragmented way, spoiling resources instead of joining efforts to get better results! |
Marrying Radio with Internet in Nepal
Comments of the jury:
| - | It is amazing how the guy managed "to browse the Internet through the radio"! Well done! In my opinion it is a really innovative way of using ICT as a tool to get information to remote communities, and it deserves the first place. |
| - | Information society is key in the developing world and using radio in this innovative way holds out hope for many community radio stations the world over. |
Sole Comfort Dot-Com:
Bridging the Global Income Gap Through Hard Work, Quality Sandals, and ICTs
Comments of the jury:
| - | The perseverance and determination of the two founders, and what they then went on to build is fascinating and is testimony to how much the youth can contribute. |
Finalists of the ICT Stories Competition
2002
Bridging the gap: CONNECTIONS
Capacity-Building Programme in Cape Town, South Africa
Connecting India Village
by Village
Creation of job opportunities for the economically & socially deprived women in the IT Industry
Harnessing ICTs for Community
Health - The AfriAfya initiative
Health Information Project: Using Handheld Computers for Surveys
Internet Week: Bringing Internet
to the People of Bassar
Kabissa - Space for change in Africa
Kyrgyzstan Development Gateway: From a Single Site to the National-wide web portal
Marrying Radio with Internet in Nepal
Message in a Bottle: ICT project brings hope to the troubled Islands of Solomon
Nile Perch - Information at the Source of the River Nile; Lake Victoria
Rwanda Rural Rehabilitation Initiative
Sole Comfort Dot-Com: Bridging the Global Income Gap Through Hard Work, Quality Sandals, and ICTs
Technical and Commercial Information Centers of the Ecologic Agriculture Sector in Bolivia
Winners of the ICT Stories Competition 2001
AKASHGANGA - Using
simple but appropriate information technology,
to facilitate timely collection of milk and thereby generating higher
profits for the rural milk producers
Closing the Gap
Resurrecting the Dinosaur
The Bankilare Experience:
An Example of a Successful Collaborative Effort to Bridge the Digital
Divide
Finalists of the ICT Stories Competition 2001
AKASHGANGA
- Using simple but appropriate information technology,
to facilitate timely collection of milk and thereby generating, higher
profits for the rural milk producers
Banque
de Programme
Closing
the Gap
Enriching
Lives.com: Community-owned project enriching lives through online presence
Healthinf-ethiopia
and ethiohealth discussionforum
Information
Technology, Changing the Lives of People with Disabilities in the Americas
Resurrecting
the Dinosaur
Simple
ICT's Reduce Maternal Mortality
The
Bankilare Experience: An Example of a Successful Collaborative Effort
to Bridge the Digital Divide
The
impact of the Internet on technology transfer to developing countries
The 2000 Winning ICT Stories
NairoBits:
African Youth Online, www.nairobits.org
The African
Virtual Library Initiative (AVL-I): The strategy for information management
for the Sub-Saharan Africa
Computers and Cakes give Confidence and Cash to Peruvian Housewive
The Digital Village: Towards a sustainable community technology centre
Finalists of the ICT competition 2000
2000 Ghana environmental information network projectNairobits: African youth online, www.nairobits.org
A "Vaccine" of educational material - what the doctor orders
Anat's story: a hearing impaired child communicating and learning via Net-Schema
CESAR - The enterprise factory
Computers and Cakes give Confidence and Cash to Peruvian Housewive
Croation Sign Language on the internet
First online news publication storms Zambia, as two pioneering journalists brave hardships
ICT and peace - How could it work in Colombia
On-line Course on European Economic Statistics (CEES)
Street children project
TaniNet: An Internet-based System for the Agricultural Community
The African Virtual Library Initiative (AVL-I): The strategy for information management for the Sub-Saharan Africa
The Digital Village: Towards a sustainable community technology centre
The Gobi News and Information triangle
Women empower Women
The 1999 Winning ICT Stories
Children and the
Internet: an experiment with minimally invasive education in India
The Use of ICT in South African township schools
The Lessons of Quipunet learned on the Internet
The Virtual Souk: e-commerce for unprivileged Artisans