ICT for development
- Sustainable Community Development Services (SCODE)
- SCODE is a national NGO whose aim is to enable people in Kenya especially the poor, to improve their quality of life by adopting technologies and approaches that are environmental friendly and contribute towards sustainable development.
- 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 (GenARDIS) has offered small grants fo...
- 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, developing country governments and ...
- 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 female-led enterprise. This paper looks...
- 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 document the uptake and impact of ICTs in sm...
- 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 community survival and local income-gen...
- Theorising ICT and development by applying a livelihoods approach
- R. Duncombe / Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2006
- This paper seeks to provide a contribution to theorising ICT and development by applying a livelihoods approach as a suitable framework of analysis, taking rural micro-enterprise as an important potential area of ICT application in a ...
- Will meeting the Bangladesh MDG targets on ICTs really benefit the poor?
- A. Raihan; M. Hasan / Development Research Network, 2005
- This paper provides a critique of the current agenda for achieving the MDG as regards ICT in Bangladesh. The MDG target, which focuses on connectivity (by measuring phones, computers and internet per 100 people) is completely on ...
- Do ICTs enhance rural livelihoods?
- D. Richardson / Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, 2006
- This summary report provides an outline of the main issues and trends in agricultural extension, as they relate to ICTs, with a special emphasis on improving rural livelihoods. The report draws on the presentations, case studies and d...
- Research findings on the use and importance of telecommunications technology for rural livelihoods
- D. Souter / Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation, 2005
- Aimed at a policy audience this paper looks at the use of various communications technologies in villages in Gujarat, Mozambique and Tanzania. It reveals that in all three research countries: telephones are the preferr...
- 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 (GenARDIS) has offered small grants fo...
- 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, developing country governments and ...
- 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 female-led enterprise. This paper looks...
- 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 document the uptake and impact of ICTs in sm...
- 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 community survival and local income-gen...
- Theorising ICT and development by applying a livelihoods approach
- R. Duncombe / Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2006
- This paper seeks to provide a contribution to theorising ICT and development by applying a livelihoods approach as a suitable framework of analysis, taking rural micro-enterprise as an important potential area of ICT application in a ...
- Will meeting the Bangladesh MDG targets on ICTs really benefit the poor?
- A. Raihan; M. Hasan / Development Research Network, 2005
- This paper provides a critique of the current agenda for achieving the MDG as regards ICT in Bangladesh. The MDG target, which focuses on connectivity (by measuring phones, computers and internet per 100 people) is completely on ...
- Do ICTs enhance rural livelihoods?
- D. Richardson / Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, 2006
- This summary report provides an outline of the main issues and trends in agricultural extension, as they relate to ICTs, with a special emphasis on improving rural livelihoods. The report draws on the presentations, case studies and d...
- Research findings on the use and importance of telecommunications technology for rural livelihoods
- D. Souter / Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation, 2005
- Aimed at a policy audience this paper looks at the use of various communications technologies in villages in Gujarat, Mozambique and Tanzania. It reveals that in all three research countries: telephones are the preferr...
- Communication and information services for poor rural communities
- R. Chapman; T. Slaymaker; J. Young / Research and Policy in Development, ODI, 2003
- This report looks at the of information in livelihoods, and makes recommendations on how agencies can capitalise on and integrate the best elements of traditional communication methods and the ICT revolution technologies within the li...
- Sustainable Community Development Services (SCODE)
- SCODE is a national NGO whose aim is to enable people in Kenya especially the poor, to improve their quality of life by adopting technologies and approaches that are environmental friendly and contribute towards sustainable development.
