South Africa and ICTs for development
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- e-Governance: can it lead to better government?
- Richard Heeks / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- What is e-governance? Can information and communication technologies (ICTs) contribute to the achievement of good governance goals? What are the implications for development? Why, when there is so much promise, do many e- governance i...
- Importance of training and information on ICTs in Africa
- R. Molo Thioune / International Development Research Centre, 2003
- This book synthesises the results of the first ‘generation’ of pilot projects on the introduction of ICTS in poor communities. It highlights the opportunities and challenges that these communities face as they attempt to ado...
- Specialists linked with local doctors through ICTs
- Bridges.org, 2003
- This case study describes the Tygerberg Children's Hospital and Rotary Telemedicine Project in South Africa, which links specialists from Tygerberg Hospital to doctors at regional community or "district" hospitals to improve healthcar...
- A review of Southern African educational software
- N. Roberts; N. Butcher / Imfundo, 2003
- This document reports on an evaluation, the purpose of which was firstly to review currently available software in sub-Saharan Africa, with a specific focus on South Africa. Secondly, the intention was to model a process of reviewing ...
- How to establish a multi-purpose community telecentre in Africa - a manual
- M. Jensen; A. Esterhuysen / United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2001
- Although interest in Telecentres is widespread, they are a new concept, so there is a shortage of knowledge on how to establish and sustain them, especially in Africa. Most of the existing introductory texts, guidelines and manuals ha...
- Putting ICT into secondary schools
- A. Cawthera / Department for International Development, UK, 2002
- This research paper provides an overview of average cost of providing computers in schools. It then examines some of the arguments for the use of computers in schools in developing countries, before reviewing previous work undertaken ...
- How can the potential contributions of ICTs to democracy in the South best be harnessed?
- S. Fleming / Electronic Journal on Information Systems in Developing Countries, 2002
- This paper explores some of the potential and current reality of using ICTs to strengthen democracy development in South Africa. Focus is on a project of the Institute for Democracy in South Africa that has sought to make use of ICTs ...
- Results of a multi-national survey into e-governance initiatives
- H. Alamango; J. Zammit; E. Scicluna / United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2002
- The authors define the term Governance as the process by which society steers itself. In this process, the interactions among the State, Private Enterprise and Civil Society are being increasingly conditioned and modified through the ...
- 14 case studies of telecentres worldwide
- C. Latchem; D. Walker / Commonwealth of Learning, 2001
- This e-book provides provides a global overview of ICTs and telecentres, examining experiences to date and considering new directions and possibilities for telecentre development. Case study chapters detail telecentres' histori...
- How can ICT projects be improved in South Africa?
- World Economic Forum, 2002
- The paper presents the results of a survey of 34 active ICT projects in South Africa. Most of the projects surveyed were in schools, although a number were wider in their focus. The authors found that sustainability is a major ...
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