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March 30, 2007
Debate 8: Should ICTs be seen as a viable tool of development for developing countries?
If you search on this blog for 'ICT4' you'll come up with aome resources re ICTs and development and digital divide. Ditto for 'WSIS'. Search on "Vision Impossible' and there will be an article written by Marita Moll and I on WSIS.
There is a vast literature on this. Here are some web resources:
The Drum Beat's
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) National Policies & Case Studies.
The Global Knowledge Partnership
International Development Resource Centre (Ottawa)
How do the poor use their phones
From WSIS, ICT for Development Platform, Geneva 2003
United Nations Development Program ICT for Development
Millennium Development Goals - MDGs
UNDP Human Development Report 2001
International Telecommunications Union ICT Statistics by country and region
See:
Robin Mansell, Ambiguous connections: entitlements and responsibilities of global networking, Journal of International Development, Volume 18, Issue 6: 901-913.
Posted by shade at March 30, 2007 10:16 AM