India and ICTs for development
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- Minimally Invasive Education approaches in India
- S. Jha; S. Chatterjee / Hole-in-the-Wall Education, 2005
- This paper examines the Minimally Invasive Education (MIE) project in Madangir, New Delhi, India. The project involved installing computer learning stations in an open, outdoor location, and encouraging children to learn on their own,...
- Results from the Hole-in-the-Wall learning project in India
- Hole-in-the-Wall Education, 2005
- Over the 4 year research phase (2000-2004), HiWEL has extensively studied the impact of Learning Stations on children. Hole-in-the-Wall Learning Stations were installed in diverse settings, the impact of interventions was monitored an...
- Research reports and toolkits on how ICTs can improve service delivery for the poor
- G. Sharma; N. Raj; B. Shadrach / Knowledge and Research Programme on Disability and Healthcare Technology, DFID, 2006
- This report and toolkit focuses on how ICTs can improve the effectiveness of public service delivery to the poor and vulnerable. The report highlights the results of an action research project that took place between January 2004 and ...
- Do literacy programmes for indigenous people ignore gender?
- Nitya Rao; Anna R. Pant / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
- Adult education programmes developed for or by indigenous communities rarely address gender inequalities. Programmes often aim to promote indigenous people’s rights, including bringing together communities who are actually differ...
- Literacy empowers women in Bihar
- Mora Oommen / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
- India’s Total Literacy Campaign (TLC) used a new system by making local administrators and community organisations – not central bureaucrats – responsible for implementation. What has been TLC’s lasting impact on t...
- Evaluation of urban slum project to improve quality of education in India
- A. Banerjee; S. Cole; E. Duflo; L. Linden / National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2005
- This paper presents the results of two experiments conducted in Mumbai and Vadodara, India, designed to evaluate ways to improve the quality of education in urban slums. The authors argue that resources alone may not be sufficient to ...
- Reflections on research and fieldwork processes of women's ICT-based enterprises in Kerala
- R. Heeks; S. Arun; S. Morgan / Women's ICT-Based Enterprise for Development, 2005
- The paper reports on, and draws lessons from, experiences in researching a group of ICT-based enterprises (mainly doing data entry, IT training, and hardware assembly work) run by cooperatives of poor women in Kerala state, India. The...
- Gender, politeness and email writing style in India
- K. Asha; K. Vaibhavi / Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2005
- Research shows that electronic communication has affected written language significantly. The increasing importance of use of Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) in organisations has multiple implications for use of written language...
- Information and communciation technologies may hold the key for women's empowerment in India
- B. Shadrach / Digital Opportunity Channel, 2005
- This editorial makes a case for encouraging women in India to become technologically able, arguing that this will help to make women more powerful as agents of social change. The author argues that growth in the informal sector throug...
- ICTs are socially deterministic, and must promote gender equality: case studies from South India
- S. Arun; R. Heeks; S. Morgan / Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2004
- Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are increasingly used by developing countries in strategies that see the new technology as having the potential to deliver economic growth, employment, skills generation and empowermen...
- The Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore
- The Centre for Internet and Society will critically engage with concerns of digital pluralism, public accountability and pedagogic practices, in the field of Internet and Society, with particular emphasis on South-South dialogues and exchange.
- Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies
- Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies (CSDMS) formerly known as Centre for Spatial Database Management and Solutions, is a Non Governmental Organisation (NGO), located at Noida, near India’s capital city of New Delhi. CSDMS is committed to advocacy and developing solutions for under-privileged societies through the use of innovative and effective Information and Commun...
- Delhi Science Forum
- Delhi Science Forum (DSF) was constituted in the year 1978 as a Public Interest Organisation registered under Societies. The primary aim of the forum was to work on the science and society interface including popularizing science and science & technology policies.
- Computer Society of India Special Interest Group on eGovernance
- Computer Society of India ( CSI ), has implemented the concept of “Special Interest Groups” to promote activities and research in few focused areas. Special Interest Group on e-Governance ( SIGeGov) has been formed accordingly. The basic objective has been to focus on an important area where Information Technology can be leveraged and bring like minded professionals together to add val...
- Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, India (DA-IICT)
- Training and research institute in India focusing on Information and Communication Technology
- Nalsar University of Law, Hyderabad, India
- University conducting research on law-related issues
- Network of Women in Media
- Network connects women in media professions across India
- i4d Journal
- Online magazine for ICT in Development
- Digital Opportunity Channel
- One World ICT site
- Center for Knowledge Societies, India (CKS)
- Bangalore based organisation focusing on ICTs and GIS for rural development
