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The state of broadband 2013: universalizing broadband
The Broadband Commission, 2013Affordable broadband connectivity,services and applications are essential to modern society, offering widely recognized social and economic benefits. With this Report, the Broadband Commission expands awareness and understanding of the importance of broadband networks, services, and applications for generating economic growth, and for achieving social progress.OrganisationBroadband Commission for Digital Development
The Broadband Commission for Digital Development was set up by ITU and UNESCO.DocumentUnderstanding what is happening in ICT in South Africa: a supply- and demand-side analysis of the ICT sector
Research ICT Africa Network, 2013While the South African information and communication technology (ICT) sector continues to demonstrate dynamic growth, particularly as driven by the mobile sector, the growth has not met the national objective of affordable access to the full range of communication services.DocumentDoubling digital opportunities: enhancing the inclusion of women & girls in the information society
The Broadband Commission, 2013ICT policy development is often seen merely as a technical issue with little relationship to other development areas. At the same time, many national gender-centered policies do not take into consideration the use of ICTs or broadband as key enablers to expand the reach of those policies to accelerate progress.DocumentEmpowering women through ICTs
Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions, 2012Following a 2008 gender, ICT, and development workshop organised by The Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions (SPIDER), applications were encouraged from partner universities for concept submissions in collaboration with partners in developing regions.DocumentInnovation and best practice in mobile technologies for development
Economic and Private Sector PEAKS, 2013Mobile adoption in developing countries has increased dramatically over the last decade. This paper is a review of innovation in the ICT entrepreneurship / mobile internet/mobile related applications space. The paper aims to identify best practice in stimulating innovation in developing countries.DocumentThe role of public sentiment and social media in the evolving China–Africa relationship
South African Institute of International Affairs, 2013The demands of public diplomacy have shifted with the development of social media technologies. Increasingly, governments are required to gauge and respond to public sentiment over and above the one-way communication of broadcast media.DocumentICT facts and figures
International Telecommunication Union, 2013Produced by the ICT Data and Statistics Division of the International Telecommunication Union in Geneva, this document presents gender- and regional-disaggregated data showing various aspects of mobile and internet penetration up to 2013.DocumentThe big deal about the network age: political economy conversations from the CITIGEN project
IT for Change, 2013Profound and rapid changes, ushered in by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), pose new challenges, as well as opportunities, for the feminist project. Understanding the processes that create and reinforce structural exclusions in and through digital space, and framing an appropriate politics of resistance, is both a theoretical and practical imperative at this juncture.DocumentThe future of employment: how susceptible are jobs to computerisation?
Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology, 2013Over the past decades, computers have substituted for a number of jobs, including the functions of bookkeepers, cashiers and telephone operators. More recently, the poor performance of labour markets across advanced economies has intensified the debate among economists about technological unemployment.Pages