Abstract: 'This paper examines the development, growth and potential sustainability of small business communication centres in cities in Ghana. It investigates the extent to which these enterprises are using modem communication tools to provide services and its impact on rural development. It describes the type of technologies available at these centres and demonstrates how these centres could be used to provide services to urban, rural and other underserved populations. Additionally, it draws a more...

Description: 'The idea of bringing the Internet to Bario was conceived as a research project to determine opportunities for social development available from the deployment of information and communication technologies within remote communities in Sarawak. Desirable results from pilot studies in other developing countries have encouraged the team to work among those communities in Sarawak to have equal access to ICTs, specifically the Internet that could precipitate significant improvements in t more...

INTERCOM-Ecuanex, founded in 1990, is an Ecuadorian and alternative non-for profit network, integrated by 17 major NGOs of the country. It uses the Communication and Information Technologies as a tool to offer integral solutions and projects to:

* Democratization of the communication and the knowledge;
* Facilitate the exchange between organizations working in the development fields;
* Strengthen the citizen participation.

As a result of the 2000 Strategic Planning, INTERCOM more...

Abstract: 'Commercial telecentres are fully sustainable in many urban areas where a number of specific conditions apply. In sparsely populated rural areas, sustainability is difficult to achieve because infrastructure may be lacking and because local demand is scattered and has limited purchasing power. Even in urban areas commercial telecentres cannot afford to provide public service goods, like informal adult or remedial education, to serve the special needs of low income people and disenfranc more...

Abstract: 'Performance indicators often refer more generally to how well a project is achieving its various objectives: this allows comparison of project performance with the targets and goals set out for it. Indicators are at the heart of any evaluation, and it requires considerable effort to first identify them, then refine them, and, ultimately, agree on them.

Indicators are measuring devices. They define concepts, such as telecentre user or improved emergency response in terms of the meas more...

InterAction's ICT Initiative is funded with a generous one-time seed grant from the Markle Foundation. Over the past two years, this program has grown into a resource for InterAction members, as well as a source of rigorous information for the community of ICT for development practitioners.

InterAction remains committed to helping its members incorporate technology into their work in a way that makes it more effective and more efficient. InterAction's ICT work will continue to investigate way more...

A report released at the World Summit on the Information Society identified a significant role for information and communication technologies (ICT) in strategies for African development. The report notes that NEPAD1 includes a strong focus on the dual strategies of ICT Development (ICTD) and ICT for Development (ICT4D).

In this paper we argue that universities in developing nations are potentially important players in both of these NEPAD strategies, and that the 'eReadiness' of universities i more...

'The APC Africa ICT Policy Monitor's primary goal project is to enable African civil society organisations to engage in information and communication technologies (ICT) policy development to promote an Information Society based on social justice and human rights. The ultimate aim being that governments and policy makers recognise that access to and the use of ICTs is a basic human right.

The project, initiated in late 2001, continues to research, collect, interpret, produce and disseminate IC more...

Copies of the conference proceedings containing papers presented at the International Federation for Information Processing, IFIP WG 9.4 2002 conference. This is a comprehensive resource, showcasing fifteen excellent papers on the progress of IT in all spheres of life.

Download the abstracts of full papers of conference proceedings from the Department of Information Systems of the London School of Economics by visiting this link: http://is2.lse.ac.uk/ifipwg94/pdfs/2002abstracts.pdf

The international telecenter movement is barely under way in Latin America (http://www.tele-centros.org). While the traditional and new, mercantile elites, awash in the current neoliberal rhetoric and blessed by multilateral development banks' structural adjustment programs, have assured Internet access and training for their children in the expensive private school system, public schools, urban and rural, languish without connectivity and social services have been curtailed across the board (vi more...