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Livelihoods and ICT

Information and communication technology (ICT) can support livelihoods in several ways: by providing access to information needed by the poor in order to pursue their livelihood strategies; and by supplying information to inform the policies, institutions and processes that affect their livelihood options. More..

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GenARDIS 2002-2010: Small grants that made big changes for women in agriculture
( Gender, Agriculture and Rural Development in the Information Society (GenARDIS) , 2010)
What is being done to bridge the gender digital divide? Since 2002, the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) fund: Gender, Agriculture and Rural Development in the Information Society (Gen...
Recommendations on the use of ICT in enhancing the livelihoods of the rural poor
( K. McNamara / infoDev , 2008)

The rural poor, one billion of whom are defined as those living on less than a dollar a day, have been by-passed by developments in ICT. This is despite substantial investment by the private sector...

The Sustainable Livelihoods approach applied to women's participation in ICT

( S. Arun;R. Heeks;S. Morgan / Women's ICT-Based Enterprise for Development , 2004)
Given the compelling evidence that persistent gender inequalities lead to slow development and impede poverty reduction, this paper argues that there is a clear need to focus on the potential of femal...

The contribution of ICT to development and poverty reduction

( C. O’Farrell / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations , 2003)

This report looks at the ways in which ICTs can contribute to development and poverty reduction. It explicitly reviews and builds upon research conducted by the FAO in 2001, which sought to documen...

Technology-based vocational skills training for marginalized girls and young women in Indonesia
( G. Dunkley;C. Haddad (ed) / UNESCO Bangkok , 2008)
In most impoverished communities, there has long been a heavy reliance on self-help mechanisms and micro-enterprise development (especially among women) in the informal economy for household and commu...
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