Integrating Information and Communication Technologies in Development Programmes

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) can play a key role in development and poverty reduction. ICTs can help promote economic growth, expand economic and social opportunity, make institutions and markets more efficient and responsive, and make it easier for the poor to obtain access to resources and services. It can also make it easier to make the voices of the poor heard in the decisions that shape their lives. (FRom the Introduction)OECD (2003).

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Contributor: GRADE Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo
Published Date: August 6, 2005