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Resources Institute Digital Dividend |
The Digital Dividend "goal
is to identify and promote business solutions to the global digital
divide—sustainable models that will allow ICT-for-development to
"go global," creating social and economic dividends in
poor communities around the world." The Website includes a well
designed data base on ideas, project, materials, press articles and
case studies. |
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Global Information and Communication Technologies Department |
This merger of IFC and Worldbank's
telecommumications groups (January 2000) fights digital disparities
in a joint effort. One recent initiative is the Summit of the
Americas ("Bridging the Digital Divide in the Americas").
The website offers examples for ICT applications worldwide. |
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Digital Opportunity Task Force |
The institutional set-up of the
G8-members, joining forces under the Okinawa Charter on the Global
Information Society. The 'Dotforce' includes members from the public,
private and not-for-profit sectors and participants from developed
and developing countries. Its website is a work-in-progress activity
that contains all relevant documents and links for 'digital divide'
activitists and practitioners. UNDP and the Worldbank provide the
Secretariat for the 'Dotforce'. |
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Bridging the Digital Divide |
The programme by DFID/UK was launched in
recognition of the potentials of ICTs to reach development targets
for poverty alleviation and enterprise development. It aims to
address key barriers to access ICTs that keep a great scepticism
among policy makers until present. At enterprise level, the
programme sees many opportunities for small entrepreneurs to gain
access to timely and valuable information as a key intangible
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Digital
Forum |
The OECD-Forum "Digital Opportunities for
Poverty Reduction. Addressing the International Digital Divide" was organised in response to the
Digital Opportunity Taskforce
in March, 2000. Integration of ICT in existing development efforts,
assistance for developing countries to develop ICT-strategies and training,
local content and languages as keys for success were among the main
goals/conclusions of the forum. |
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Digital Opportunity Initiative |
The DOI is a partnership between the UNDP,
Accenture (a
US$10 billion global management and technology consulting under the
Anderson Group) and the Markle
Foundation (a not-for-profit philantrophy working on emerging
communications media and information technology). DOI has compiled a
substantial report on ICT for development ("Creating a
Development Dynamic", July 2001) in which it establishes five
key differentials for a dynamic ICT-for-development scenario, i.e.
infrastructure; human capacity; policy; enterprise; content and
applications. |
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Towards E-development in Asia and the Pacific |
A strategic approach of the ADB
to assist the member countries benefit from ITCs. It contains three
strategic thrusts: Creation of an enabling environment, build-up of
human resources, development of ITC applications and information
content
Country: Asia, general |
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Digital Opportunity Initiative |
The PPP-Initiative examined the
experiences of the deployment of ICT in a broad range of developing
nations Country: Malaysia, India |
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Simputer Trust |
Simputer, a non-profit organization,
provides a low cost portable alternative to PCs that can be shared
by a community.
Country: India |
ICT International
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Department for International Development (DFID) |
The UK Department for
International Development (DFID) adopted in its recent studies on
ICTs a broad coverage of technologies "…used for the
collection, processing and transmission of information." It identifies four functional areas for ICTs and enterprise
operations:
ICTs as an enterprise output;
ICTs as a primary
processing technology; other ICT-related support activities;
ICTs as a secondary processing technology. |
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Entrepreneurship Education on the Web |
Entrepreneurship Education
Resource for students, professors and entrepreneurs, made available
by St. Louis University |
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GTZ - e-business
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A research project on e-business of the German Agency of Technical
Co-operation, mainly focused on the question how e-business
influences the development of small and medium enterprises.
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iConnect online: Applying Knowledge to Development
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iConnect is is hosted by the IICD, funded by DFID, DGIS, and the SDC,
and (as described in its web page) seeks "to promote the
effective exchange of knowledge and learning on the use of ICTs (and
knowledge more generally) in development."
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Institute of Development Studies |
The ICT Working Group of IDS
is a multidisciplinary group established to promote a poverty
focussed, sustainable approach to the use of ICT in DFID’s
activities. The use of ICTs is already very widespread in DFID
programmes e.g.distance learning, information systems, remote
healthcare, connectivity, ID21 |
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Information and Communications Technologies for Development |
UNDP's ICT-Programme looks at the
potential gains of using ICTs for faster delivery and a more adapted
content of technical assistance for people in hitherto unreached/underserviced
areas and sectors. The programme assists in awareness raising,
increased connectivity, and human and social capacity building. It
conducts pilot projects to test feasible ICT-approaches / tools, and
enters partnerships to put more weight into research and
infrastructure development. The web site of this program is a 'work-in-progress'
resource tool meant to capture activities and trends in the ICT area
(UN and non-UN initiatives). |
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International Telecommunication Union - E-strategy |
ITU fosters the deployment of secure,
cost-effective and sustainable IP-based infrastructure and
value-added services in developing and least developed countries by
(1) putting in place a comprehensive action plan, (2) enabling
public and private sector entities to participate in the development
of the core infrastructure through the use of value-added e-services
and (3) encouraging the participation of various types of partners
through a technology neutral and non-exclusive framework. |
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International Institute for Communication and Development |
IICD (established 1997 by
the Netherlands Minister for Development Co-operation) assists
developing countries to realise locally-owned sustainable
development. IICD's strategy bases mainly on a series of integrated
Country Programmes: (1) Facilitation of Roundtable Processes in developing countries for formulation of
ICT-supported
policies and projects; (2) Organisation of
Capacity Development activities to develop the skills identified by the local partners; (3) Drawing on the IICD
global network to provide information and advice to the local
partners, fostering local information exchange networks on the use
of ICTs for development. |
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