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Monitoring and evaluating information and communication for development (ICD) programmes
Department for International Development, UK, 2005These gudelines were written for DFID staff in need of advice on the monitoring and evaluating Information and Communication for Development (ICD) programmes.DocumentFinancing ICT for development: the EU approach
Department for International Development, UK, 2005This paper offers a brief overview of European Union financial support to ICT for development programmes, and relates this to the MDG process.It notes that:most EU members support this approach, and ICT forms a significant part of many EU funded projects.DocumentOn the evolution of the spatial economy with multi-unit/multi-plant firms: the impact of IT development
Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organisation, Tokyo, 2005This paper examines how the decline of communication costs between management and production facilities within firms and the decrease in trade costs of manufactured goods affect the spatial organization of a two-region economy with multi-unit/multi-plant firms.DocumentDo governments actually believe that ICT can help alleviate poverty?: a perspective from Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs)
Asia-Pacifiic Development Information Program, 2005This note examines the treatment of ICT in PRSPs of Asia-Pacific countries.DocumentEditorial: mainstreaming ICTs for gender mainstreaming in development
Digital Opportunity Channel, 2005This 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 through globalisation has actually often had a negative affect on women, creating more work for the same, or less money.DocumentFree/Open Source software localization primer
Asia-Pacifiic Development Information Program, 2005This primer provides a broad perspective on the localization of Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) for the benefit of policy- and decision-makers in developing countries.DocumentFree/Open-Source software: guide to localization
Asia-Pacifiic Development Information Program, 2005This guide covers all the steps involved in the localisation process starting from fundamental topics such as locale, character encoding and fonts creation to advanced topics including input methods, gettext framework and translation guidelines.The guide takes some FOSS applications such as KDE, GNOME, OpenOffice and Mozilla(Firefox) as case-studies.DocumentTrade in telecommunication services: opportunities and constraints
Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2004The growing importance of services such as telecommunications in various countries resulted in a demand to bring services trade under a framework of multilateral trade rules. This paper brings together the issues that are relevant to the WTO negotiations specific to telecommunication services from an Indian perspective.DocumentAbsent voices, missed opportunity: the media’s silence on ICT policy issues in six African countries
Rhodes University, South Africa, 2005This study was conducted to gauge the quality of media coverage of contemporary ICT policy issues in policy-influential media in Africa.Media was evaluated based on interest in ICT policy issues, what the approach is in coverage of these issues, i.e.DocumentICT initiatives, women and work in developing countries: reinforcing or changing gender inequalities in South India?
Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2004Information 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 empowerment.Pages