IICD’s health projects are principally aimed at improving the health of populations in small urban centres and remote rural areas through ICT. It is predominantly in these areas, where a vicious circle of poor health, inequality and social exclusion prevent people from participating in other aspects of society that can improve their quality of life. Improving health in the community, rural access to resources and the qualitative improvement of basic medical services that are needed to tackle t more...

IICD’s education projects are primarily focussed on enhancing the competencies of the teacher, improving the quality of learning materials, developing young people’s learning skills and an overall improvement of the learning process through ICT.

Operating through partnerships with international organisations, government agencies, ministries, schools, teachers, civil society organisations and the private sector, IICD has worked to develop and implement programmes that incorporate a broad more...

Digital Abuja is about the state of Computer, Information Technology and ICT Development, training and services in Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Is Digital Abuja about digital dreams or digital reality? Abuja, the capital city of Nigeria, located in the heart of the country is known as a “planned” city. Is Abuja planned with knowledge economy consciousness? Digital concepts are important because the ICT driven world is our reality. If we want to operate at our best in today’ more...

The handbooks provide advocacy, guidance and training materials on the benefits and risks of women's ICT enterprises; how to set up such enterprises; how to improve such enterprises; and how to support such enterprises. They include case examples, advice sheets, and analysis tools.
The handbooks are available in English and also Bengali, Hindi, Indonesian, Kannada, Luganda, Luo, Spanish, and Tamil.These are products of the DFID-funded 'Women's ICT-Based Enterprise for Development' project, coo more...

The CyberVolunteers Programme recruits, trains and coordinates volunteers with information and communication technology skills for development. Volunteers participate in local, regional and international projects for a period of several weeks or months, offering their skills in areas such as web or software development, system administration and content generation.

The Programme values in particular South-South exchanges, but also includes South-North and North-South cooperation, with Project more...

The Experience with Community Telecentres presents the results of a series of studies that examined the setting, operations and effects of community telecentres. The studies reported in this book were planned and conducted as evaluative research to make a contribution towards illuminating the relationship of ICTs and development in the continent. The rationale for the studies was the consolidation of learning from telecentre and telecentre-type projects in Africa, in order to share this learning more...

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.

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

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...

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...