Documents tagged with ict4d

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ICT4D Seminar Invite 4 December 2009

Connectivity—whether the internet or mobile phones—is increasingly bringing market information, financial services, health services—to remote areas, and is helping to change people’s lives in unpre...
  • SAInnovationNetwork published this 12 / 02 / 2009
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Gaurang Desai_Activating Open Source Methodologies for Industrial Design

My Masters Thesis (early draft) identifies contextually relevant and appropriate forms of technology for developing countries and seeks to facilitate its design and development using Open Source me...
  • Gaurang Desai published this 11 / 08 / 2009
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Re-thinking Acute Emergencies Response through Communication Technology in African Peri-rural Commun

Paper prepared for the 3rd International Development Informatics Association Conference. 28-30th October 2009 Johannesburg; South Africa. Local rural communities frequently receive little assistan...
  • kdiga published this 11 / 06 / 2009
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GAID Series 1: Foundations of the Global Alliance for ICT and Development :: unpan032769

The Global Alliance for ICT and Development will contribute to transforming the spirit and vision of the WSIS into action and promote the use of ICT for the achievement of the internationally agree...
  • UNDESA - GAID published this 11 / 04 / 2009
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GAID Series 3: iGUIDE - ICTD Resources in Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area :: unpan03

The iGUIDE: ICTD Resources in Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area is the first-ever comprehensive resource directory of local ICTD initiatives. Its easy-to-use listings of vital informati...
  • UNDESA - GAID published this 11 / 03 / 2009
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Sustainable Urbanization in the Information Age :: unpan036083

This book summarizes the presentations and discussions held during the “Forum on Sustainable Urbanization in the Information Age” which took place in May 2008 in New York City. The Forum condensed ...
  • UNDESA - GAID published this 11 / 03 / 2009
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White Paper - Information Communication & Technology (ICT) in Education for Development - unpan034

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can be an extremely powerful enabler in efforts to bring positive and sustainable development to countries around the globe. Today, almost a full deca...
  • UNDESA - GAID published this 11 / 03 / 2009
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A Digital Shift: Youth and ICT for Development Best Practices unpan036084

A publication of the GAID Committee of eLeaders for Youth and ICT, In collaboration with TakingITGlobal and the Youth Unit of Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie This publication was ...
  • UNDESA - GAID published this 11 / 03 / 2009
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The Role of Mobile Infomediaries: A Bottom of the Pyramid Approach

Authors: M.S. Kiran, Jerry Watkins, and Jo Tacchi Abstract In this paper we explore an information and communication technology (ICT) initiative in the state of Orissa, India that provides asyn...
  • kiran_ms published this 11 / 01 / 2009
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ICTs and Food Security

Food security and hunger are global concerns. This Technology Watch Report examines some of the main ways in which information and communication technologies (ICT) can be used locally and globally ...
  • ITUtechwatch published this 07 / 30 / 2009
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FLOSS in Development Cooperation - Theory and Challenges

Agriculture in development regions is often characterized by rural and remote settings, poverty, low levels of education and high degrees of illiteracy. Against this background the theoretical fram...
  • martin_voss published this 07 / 14 / 2009
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Young Researchers Workshop - ICTD2009 - 12 final papers

“Young” Researchers’ Workshop at ICTD2009 Friday 17 April 2009 in conjunction with 3rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2009) 17 ...
  • kdiga published this 05 / 20 / 2009
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ICTD 2009 Proceedings

Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, held at Carnegie Mellon Qatar in Doha on April 17-19, 2009.
  • sunilonln published this 04 / 14 / 2009
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Sustaining Membership

benefits of ICGFM sustaining membership for companies
  • icgfmconference published this 04 / 06 / 2009
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ICTD Submission Final(2)

This paper describes my current ICT4D work as well as the struggles for young Africa scholars to move forward with their work in this multi-disciplinary field. kdiga
  • kdiga published this 03 / 21 / 2009
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