Abstract: 'At the Group of Eight Industrialized Nations (G8) Summit in Okinawa, Japan (July, 2000), the Heads of State acknowledged that Information and Communications Technology (ICT) 'is one of the most potent forces in shaping the twenty-first century'. However, the ever-widening gap between the world's information 'haves' and 'have-nots' - the 'digital divide' - is hindering development and growth.

To address the problem, the G8 generated the Okinawa Charter on the Global Information Soci more...

The 'Telecentre in a Box' is a robust, user-friendly, 'turnkey' configuration of several networked PCs providing a variety of Internet utilities/applications, instant access to practical e-commerce utilities, easy to use local administration tools, and globally accessible administration and information tracking tools (extremely useful for evaluation purposes).

The 'telecentre in a Box' is designed for installation and applications in rural areas of developing countries, and can be administere more...

El martes 5 de agosto la Alcaldía de Medellín, TIGO, Medellín Digital, Crea-me y TecnoParque Colombia hicieron la presentación oficial del Nodo Medellín Digital, como unidad especializada en el área de Tecnologías de la información y las comunicaciones (TIC) en la ciudad de Medellín
El lanzamiento de este proyecto y su implementación hace parte de los diferentes esfuerzos para superar la brecha digital en la ciudad, liderados por el programa Medellín Digital y respaldado por diferent more...

It is hard to imaging the 'environmental impact' of e-commerce. After all, it doesn't emit any pollutants or use much energy and natural resources. It would also be hard to imagine it connected to the now familiar topics of sustainability such as climate change, and biodiversity and habitat losses. But their environmental impacts are there. And the impacts are not only significant, their nature and magnitude are such that the ways to resolve them are by no means evident or familiar to us.

'Rolf Janke of SAGE Reference reports back on some of the e-book and e-reference discussions at the London Book Fair.'
Research Information: June / July 2008.

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.

"Telecenters are a noble approach to democratizing the benefits to ICT. However most of them struggle for sustainability precisely because they target users of limited means. The key to their viability, however, is providing services to relatively prosperous enterprises in any community. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are increasingly feeling the necessity to establish an on-line presence and are willing and able to pay a small amount ($10 per month for example) for hosting and also purc more...

This series published by UNCTAD falls under its "Investment, Technology and Enterprise Development" program. It currently contains the following titles: Investment and Technology polocies for competitiveness, Electronic Commerce and Music Business Development in Jamaica: a portal to the new economy ? Changing dynamics of global computer software and services industry:implications for developing countries. Partnerships and networking in Science and Technology for Development.

This is an online portal for connecting buyers and sellers of Intellectual Properties (ip). Indian technology and e-commerce company Embitel and its German counterpart DMC have launched the portal. The portal offers directory listings of Video codec, image codec, audio codec, speech codec, wireless software, embedded software frameworks, RTOS, device drivers, designs, patents and more. It seeks to enables individuals or companies to meet their need for technology solutions by bringing them with more...

The International Federation for Information Processing Working Group 9.4 focuses on the Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries. This link provides access to all papers presented at their recent conference in May 2007 in Brazil . The papers cover a broad spectrum of topics relating to ICT4D.