This document proposes a five-year strategic plan for a new Program Initiative in the “Information and Communication Technologies for Development” (ICT4D) area in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), It will build on the lessons learned by these initiatives in previous programming cycles as well as build upon the LAC regional consultation, background papers and contributions of external reviewers and a variety of other consultative mechanisms.

ICT Update is a bimonthly printed bulletin, web magazine, and accompanying email newsletter focusing on the use of information and communication technologies in agriculture in African, Caribbean and Pacific countries. It is published in English and French, by CTA (Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation) in Wageningen in the Netherlands.

Policies making and their implementation is a governmental task. There is always a big gap between the desired policies and actual policies that are in existence. This, naturally, affects the Nation at large but its consequences are mostly borne by the citizens of that Nation. Although there are many policy lapses in India but the most glaring among them are those pertaining to Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

A working group of Association for Progressive communication (APC) members aims to bring environment higher on the ICT policy priorities of global civil society. Information and communication technologies are a powerful tool for civil society protecting environment. But more is needed to streamline ICT work of different groups and communities, and offer them access to the ICTs they need to secure environmental sustainability, a BlueLink/APC survey shows.

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...

The Alliance responds to the need and demand for an inclusive global forum and platform for cross-sectoral policy dialogue on the use of ICT for enhancing the achievement of internationally agreed development goals, notably reduction of poverty.

This Partnership aims to accommodate and develop further the different initiatives regarding the availability and measurement of ICT indicators at the regional and international levels. It provides an open framework for coordinating ongoing and future activities, and for developing a coherent and structured approach to advancing the development of ICT indicators globally, and in particular in developing countries

The World e-Parliament Report 2008 represents a first effort to establish a baseline of how parliaments are using, or planning to use ICT to help them fulfill their responsibilities and to connect to their constituencies. The Report also provides an opportunity for sharing lessons learned and good practices from different regions of the world.
The WePR 2008 is a joint product of UNDESA and the Inter-Parliamentary Union, prepared as part of the work of the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament.

eTransparency means the use of ICTs (information and communication technologies) to make public sector decisions and actions more open to scrutiny. It runs from just providing basic information about government up to enabling public control over civil servants.

The benefits of e-transparency are found by the Exchange to come in two main forms. There are process benefits (e.g. reducing costs for transparency; anywhere, anytime access to transparency information; and making better transparency- more...

Abstract: 'Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are playing an increasingly important role in Azarbaijan's social, economic and political development. At the present time, the ICT sector is one of the most rapidly developing in the country and is receiving growing attention from a number of national and international institutions.

Global experience clearly indicates that Information and Communication Technologies are an effective tool for assisting a country's successful developm more...