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Millennium Development Goals and Innovation: Understanding a Socially Entrepreneurial Venture in Rural Rajasthan
2013The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), meant to address verity of issues ranging from extreme poverty to environmental sustainability have been offering handful of help to the most deprived sections to combat there exclusion. Use of innovative technologies is given utmost priority in most of the world in order to acquire resources to tackle the aimed issues under MDGs approach.DocumentGovernment ICT Strategy - Strategic Implementation Plan
2011This plans is focused on standardising government ICT. In the past, government departments worked to their own requirements and often procured expensive bespoke ICT systems and solutions to meet them. As a result, departments have been tied in to inflexible and costly ICT solutions which together have created a fragmented ICT estate that impedes the efficiencies created by sharing and re-use.DocumentUse of ICT in improving governance and social accountability with a pro-poor approach: reflections from India
2012This study discusses the issue of digital divide is often discussed in terms of the outreach of information technology and communication infrastructure that provides electronic connectivity.DocumentICT Innovation and Sustainable Development
International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2012This is one in a series of papers being published by IISD’s Global Connectivity team to inform and stimulate discussion and debate on the relationship between information and communication technologies (ICTs), the Internet and sustainability, surrounding the UN Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012 (Rio+20), the UN Internet Governance Forum in Baku in November 2012 aDocumentIs there a future for e-government? Looking beyond the explanitory emptiness of the e-government concept
2011In this study author elaborated how e-government studies can benefit from three bodies of knowledge which have their off spring in social sciences, if e-government studies want to increase their explanatory power. In doing so, author has also presented number of research questions that will enable scholars of e-government to strengthen the explanatory quality of their research.DocumentHarnessing ICTs for local development: The case of Rural-Urban Partnership Programme in Nepal
2003The inventive march of human efforts in ICT in the “modern” and “post – colonial” era have shown new dimensions to the development work, knowledge and information exchange and many other networking facilities. Today, ICTs are no longer considered as merely a “technical appendix” for internal computational needs.DocumentConnecting for Health: Global Vision, Local Insight
2005Connecting for Health: Global Vision, Local Insight represents a starting point and an instrument for action, bringing together statistics in health, development and ICT to show the opportunities for eHealth in countries.DocumentStrategy Framework for Promoting ICT Literacy in the Asia-Pacific Region
UNESCO Bangkok, 2008This paper targets individuals and organizations engaged in providing ICT literacy education. The first section provides a situational analysis of ICT usage in the Asia-Pacific region, both to examine current dominant thrusts in ICT literacy education and to serve as background for the strategy framework presented in this report. The second section, then, details this framework.DocumentInformation and Communication Technologies in Social Work
2010Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are electronic tools used to convey, manipulate and store information. The exponential growth of Internet access and ICTs greatly influenced social, political, and economic processes in the United States, and worldwide. Regardless of the level of practice, ICTs will continue influencing the careers of social workers and the clients they serve.