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Search by Keywords: Advanced Search In Numbers Charts and graphs on how internet usage and spending on information and communication technologies have changed in developing countries- click here. ICT at the Development Gateway AiDA - Projects dgMarket - Tenders dgCommunities – ICT for Development About this Report This Special Report provides a forum for diverse perspectives on the Information Society and what's ahead for ICT as a development tool. Participating in this Special Report are our online communities focused on: Afghanistan Reconstruction Culture & Development E-Government E-Learning Environment  Food Security Foreign Direct Investment Gender and Development HIV/AIDS ICT for Development Indigenous Issues Iraq Knowledge Economy  Microfinance  Non-Governmental Organizations Poverty Space Applications Trade and Development Urban Development  Water Resources Management Youth for Development       Please take our online survey for the next Special Report "Online Education: What Can It Deliver?" coming in March 2006. Become a Development Gateway member, and you will be notified of our upcoming reports. Sign-up! See previous Special Reports here. Special Report The requested resource (/editor/default/) is not available What Tools and Applications Can Benefit Developing Countries? The use of information and communication technologies (ICT) is pervasive and successful applications can be found in many fields including agriculture, education and health. In recent years, lower costs and increased awareness about ICT has resulted in increased usage. Read how ICT tools are helping the poor. (NEW) Microfinance Prodem Fondo Financiero Privado: Providing Rural Bolivians with Access to Banking Prodem’s automated teller network, using smart card technology and voice applications, enables rural Bolivians to overcome language and literacy barriers to reliably save their money and gain access to loans. While urban areas have easy access to banks and savings accounts, the vast majority of Bolivia’s population has been unable to use banking services. Forty percent of Bolivia’s population, a multilingual society, resides in rural areas, with an illiteracy rate of 29 percent. More  Water Resources Management ICT Applications for Water Resources Management Information technologies present innovative solutions to land and water management challenges. The question is how to deliver options to policy makers and water managers that are economically viable, socially acceptable and environmentally sustainable. More  Food Security Making ICT Work for Food Security Knowledge and information are important factors for accelerating agricultural development by increasing agricultural production and improving marketing and distribution. ICTs can enhance the integration and efficiency of agricultural systems by opening new communication pathways and reducing transaction costs, giving greater accessibility of information on prices, transportation, and production technologies. More  Culture and Development Online Archive of World Music Harnesses Internet for Cultural Exchange Launched by the Smithsonian's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage in February 2005, Global Sound includes online Radio Global Sound; a digital catalogue indexing music according to language, country, instrument and ensemble; and royalty policies to protect intellectual property rights of musicians around the world. More  Indigenous Issues Internet Projects Aimed at Indigenous Connectivity Featured at WSIS An array of internet activities aimed at connecting the world's indigenous people will be featured at WSIS in Tunisia. The Global Forum of Indigenous Peoples and the Information Society will focus on connectivity for indigenous peoples in an urban context, e-government, and gender. More  Urban Development Wired Cities Advance Online Services and Products for Urban Poor The World Summit of Cities and Local Authorities on the Information Society, a WSIS prepcom in Bilbao, Spain, focused on the role of local government in advancing the information society. Among the events convened leading to Bilbao were a series of special conferences, each one called "W2i Digital Cities Convention". Thirteen cities are currently participating in an initiative called "Digital Communities" led by a consortium of corporate partners that includes Intel, Cisco, Dell, IBM, and SAP. The project is pushing hard to encourage civic leaders to deploy innovative and useful high-speed wireless networks.More  HIV/AIDS Enable, Educate and Empower: How The eApproach Can Help Tackle The HIV/AIDS Epidemic Currently, India has the second highest number of people infected by the HIV virus in the world. At the same time, the country has a rapidly growing customer base of mobile telephone and personal computer users – as well as a large resource pool of information technology professionals. How is the information technology boom being used in India’s attempts to control the HIV epidemic? More  E-Learning How E-Learning Can Be Used to Create EmplThe requested resource (/editor/default/) is not availableoyment and Business Oportunities From the ability to offer and pursue courses in business and entrepreneurship to using ICTs to post and respond to jobs to using ICTs to build networks that ultimately result in the creation of jobs, e-learning is a powerful tool that helps facilitate all aspects of job and business creation in new and interesting ways. In addition e-learning itself has spawned a new industry employing web developers, instructional designers, graphics specialists and e-learning specialists. More  ICT for Disadvantaged Groups Women and ICTs for open and distance learning Women, Poverty and ICT: Mediating Social Change Assistive Technologies The Mgbala Agwa Youth Forum Has the Internet Increased Government Transparency for Indigenous People? Attavik: Setting a Foundation for Inuktitut Computing   ICT in Health, Education and Environment GIS Water Resources Consortium UN Humanitarian Early Warning Service ICT in the Dairy Farming System ICT in Agriculture: Perspectives of Technological Innovation Water Evaluation and Planning (WEAP) software PATH program in Thailand - Teens on Smart Sex KZN AIDs link JIVA Teledoc Access to ICTs for Agricultural Development Recommended Websites Application of Government Best Practices Africa: The Impact of Mobile Phones ITU: ICT Success Stories dgCommunity: E-Learning dgCommunity: E-Government The requested resource (/editor/default/) is not available Email this page Sign-up Sponsored by: From Our Members How did Development Gateway members respond to our Information Society Survey questions?: Has ICT been an effective tool for development?  What are good examples of how ICT has worked for the poor?  How do you use ICT for development? (NEW) E-Leadership: What Role Can it Play in Development? Nagy Hanna, e-Leadership Institute Peter Knight, Telemática e Desenvolvimento Ltda Read Civil Society How Can ICT Contribute Most? M.S. Swaminathan, India Shafika Isaacs, South Africa Yahya Tabesh, Iran Cornelius Hopmann, Nicaragua Read Development Banks Do they Promote Knowledge Societies Daan Boom, Asian Development Bank Pierre Guislain, World Bank Danilo Piaggessi, IADB Read Case Study: How ICT has Transformed India Kiran Karnik, NASSCOM Sam Pitroda, World-Tel Limited Read WSIS  How Can WSIS Facilitate Development? Despite advances since 2003, the digital divide still exists Read Blogs and Wikis  Citizens Usher in an Era of Change New tools for citizens are changing ICT Read In Country  Putting ICT to Work for Development Examples from Africa and South Asia Read ICT Awards  Recognizing Leaders and Pioneers Promoting ideas through competitions Read Partners Global Events Nov 3, Fill-the-Gap!, Netherlands  Nov 9-Nov 11, World Summit of Cities and Local Authorities and the role Information Society, Spain  Nov 10 -11, Libraries and the Information Society in Action, Egypt Nov 13-15, Past, Present and Future of Research in the Information Society Nov 16-18, World Summit on Information Society, Tunisia  Nov 17, Creating Transformations: Intel at WSIS, Tunisia  Nov 28-Nov 30, IEEE International Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Technologies in Education, Japan  Nov 28 - Dec 5, GKP/MSSRF South-South Exchange Traveling Workshop 2005, India May 25 – May 26, First International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, USA

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