This publication describes several examples of how ICTs have contributed to poverty alleviation, to a greater or lesser extent. Several case studies are given at the end. Some lessons learned from the examples are synthesized and it is shown how implementation efforts have to take into account the wide variety of factors that are critical for success. Published by the United Nations Development Programmer’s Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme (UNDP-APDIP) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.(pdf more...
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This New Service Agenda builds on the momentum and achievements in the previous strategy (Better Services, Better Government), taking into account lessons learnt, to deliver an even more coordinated and citizen-driven focus to the government’s e-government initiatives. It is about strategically applying ICT to improve and reform underlying government processes. Publish by Department of Finance and Administration, Australia.(pdf:46)
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The Agricultural Market Information System Quota project is an electronic information communication system, which contributes to better handling of import tariff quotas at preferential rates administered by the Directorate General for Agriculture & Rural Development.
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'Doing Business (DB), an annual World Bank-IFC publication launched in 2004, is one of the Bank Group's flagship knowledge products. It
measures the burden of selected business regulations in 178 countries and ranks the countries on 10 dimensions. The program's stated objective is to advance the World Bank Group's private sector development agenda in four ways: motivate reforms through country benchmarking; inform the design of reforms; enrich international initiatives on development effectiven more...
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As international development agencies increasingly come to recognize the correlation between the adoption of information and communications technologies (ICTs) and economic development, we need to understand that a social investment is required for the services available in a telecentre to take root and offer benefits in the developing world.
Telecentres offer a promising route for rural communities of the developing world to break out of their isolation.
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The project is developing a community multimedia centre (CMC) from an existing telecentre in the Sitakund sub-district in Bangladesh. It aims to raise awareness in the community of the potential benefits of a community multimedia centre and to train the local community in community media skills; it also intends to increase the amount, quality and diversity of local content production and local distribution in Sitakund. It will pay particular attention to poor and marginalized youth, indigenous p more...
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Dimitra is an information and communication project which aims to highlight rural women's contribution to their community and their country. It is implemented by the Gender and Development Service (SDWW), of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The project is coordinated in Brussels, with support from Rome and Accra, and relies on the active cooperation of a large network of local partners in Africa and the Near East.
The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and its network ar more...
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