ICT for development

Impact of mobile phones on SME supply chains in Nigeria

Can mobile telephony improve commercial supply-chains in developing countries? Informational challenges – absence, uncertainty, asymmetry – shape the working of markets and commerce in many developing countries. This paper is a case study of the impact of mobile telephony on SMEs in the clothweaving sector in Nigeria.

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Enhancing the potential of ICTs for advancing democracy and empowerment in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda: ( Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency , 2009); Access to and the strategic use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) have been shown to have the potential to help bring about economic development, poverty reduction, and democrat...
ICT and gender in Bangladesh: ( Development Research Network , 2009); ‘Digital Bangladesh’ became a key issue in the last election as the benefits of ICT became more well known. At the same time as this growing interest, Bangladesh was and still is in a time...
Examples of small technology that have a big impact: ( Academy for Educational Development, USA , 2009); This publication, based on AED’s experience, shows examples of the practical application of small technology that have a big impact around the developing world. The authors argue that technology...
Using mobile phone technology, millions of people could be reached with HIV prevention messages: ( IRIN PlusNews , 2008); As Uganda's HIV prevalence is rising again, policy makers are on the look for innovative ways of educating people about the virus. This article, published by PlusNews, reports on a pilot project in we...
The role of mobile phones in in the scale-up of global health systems: ( Richard Lester;Sarah Karanja / The Lancet Infectious Diseases , 2008); This article, published by The Lancet, argues that with mobile telephones reaching people in Africa’s cities, towns, villages, and countrysides more rapidly than anywhere else in the world, they...
The potential of mobile phones in improving global health: ( The Economist , 2009); This special report on health care and technology, published by The Economist, describes how developing countries are using mobile phones to provides personalised medicine. Drawing from experiences...
Open licenses promise significant value for funders, grantees and for the public good: ( P. Malone / Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University , 2009); This document examines the extent to which charitable foundations are aware of and have begun to use open licenses such as Creative Commons or the GPL. It highlights examples where found...
Producing internationally comparable statistics on the information economy: ( United Nations Asian Pacific Training Centre for Information and Communication Technology for Development , 2009); The demand for statistics on information and communication technologies (ICT) is continuously increasing as more countries seek to design, monitor and review national policies. This manual has...
The interconnected impact of the media in Africa: ( Z. Ismail;P. Graham / Afrobarometer , 2009); Democracies are assumed to rely on an informed and active citizenry. Freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and access to a variety of independent media sources are therefore considered essential el...
Can ICT foster social and political freedoms in the Middle East?: ( F. Shirazi / Electronic Journal on Information Systems in Developing Countries , 2008); This paper examines the extent to which ICT expansion is impacting social and political freedoms in ten countries of the Middle Eastern region, defined as non-democratic states. It investigates two pr...