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20 January 2004

Removing barriers to poverty-focused ICT for development: the experience of the Building Digital Opportunities programme. This study is based on the Building Digital Opportunities programme (BDO), which aims to identify and help remove some of the key barriers to poverty-focused ICT for development. BDO has the following objectives: strengthen the [Eldis ICT for development newsfeed]
10:03:29 PM

The well-connected community. Kevin Harris reports on his Neighbourhoods blog publication of The Well-Connect Community by Alison Gilchrist. This is very much about networks - but the non-tech local type, based on Alison's time as a community worker, activist, and later researcher in... [Designing for Civil Society]
10:02:50 PM

The importance of seeing through the introduction of ICT in developing countries. Can information and communications technologies (ICT) make a valuable contribution to achieving development outcomes? If so, how can this best be done? The paper argues that ICT, used appropriately, has the potential to vastly improve [Eldis ICT for development newsfeed]
10:01:16 PM

Sida's policy on ICT for development in the areas of democratic governance and social development. This report outlines the strategy of the Sida Department of Democracy and Social Development (DESO) for integrating ICT as a tool for democracy and social development, from a rights-based perspective. DESO will primarily focus on [Eldis ICT for development newsfeed]
10:00:49 PM

Online development networks and social capital theory. The paper examines whether the concept of social capital can be applied to facilitate our understanding of online networks in development. The report: asks why knowledge and learning are important to development and [Eldis ICT for development newsfeed]
10:00:25 PM