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...

'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...

The 3rd World Electronic Media Forum (WEMF3) will start this Monday at Kuala Lumpur. bring together broadcast executives, policy makers, academics, journalists, visionaries and decision makers from around the world. They will look at the fundamental changes taking place in the global information society, and discuss how these will affect the role of the electronic media as well as the dissemination of knowledge, economic and business practices, political engagement and other aspects of society. more...

The Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka will highlight its commitment towards being active change agents in the developmental industry worldwide by supporting the Third Global Knowledge Conference (GK3), a GKP Event on the Future. Themed “Emerging People, Emerging Markets, Emerging Technologies”, GK3 will be held at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre from 11 to 13 December 2007.

GK3 will be a dynamic GKP Event focused on the Future. GK3 will explore concrete sol more...

Selon cet article publié par le Fonds Mondial de Solidarité numérique, le Ministre des Affaires étrangères sénégalais S.E. Cheikh Tidiane Gadio a récemment plaidé en faveur de la contribution du «1% de solidarité numérique»: "Réuni à Séoul du 3 au 5 septembre 2007 pour sa 3ème Session plénière, le Groupe Pilote sur les contributions de solidarité en faveur du développement a désigné le Sénégal à sa Présidence. Après la France, le Brésil, la Norvège et la Corée, c more...

According to this article published by Reuters, EBay, the world's largest online auctioneer and payments company, launched on Wednesday a Web site allowing ordinary investors to buy securities aimed at improving conditions in the world's poorest countries: "MicroPlace, located at http://www.microplace.com, will allow people to invest as little as $100 to support development in impoverished areas.

So-called microfinance is the supply of loans, savings, insurance and other basic financial servi more...

Everyclick.com is a search engine that lets users search the web and benefit the charity of their choice. According to the project, so far Everyclick.com has raised £312,779* for charities. All you need to do is to select the charity you would like to support and then search the web as normal, there's absolutely no charge for users and the charities involved.

PEOPLink/CatGen is now seeking support and partnerships to launch this initiative offering totally free e-commerce (software, hosting, user support) to SMEs worldwide by the end of 2007.

CGAP, a global resource center for the microfinance industry housed at the World Bank, has undertaken a major expansion of its promotion of the use of technologies such as mobile phones and card-based networks to enable the poor to obtain financial services. The $26 million technology program is co-funded by a four-year, $24 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Most of this funding will support demonstration projects to expand access to financial services with technology sol more...

The digital solidarity label created by the Global Digital Solidarity Fund (DSF) is awarded to any public institution or private business that makes a substantial contribution to reduce the digital divide, namely by adopting and/or applying the “1% digital solidarity” principle. The digital solidarity label demonstrates an active commitment to a more equitable information society, based on universal access to information and knowledge, through harnessing information and communication technol more...