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Digital public goods platforms for development: the challenge of scaling
The information society, volume 38, issue 5 (2022), pp. 364-376
"In this article we consider the notion of digital global public good and articulate our understanding of it. Against this conceptual foil, we examine the development of DHIS2 (District Health Information Software Version 2), a global health platform inspired by public goods, focusing on the paradox...
At the confluence of digital rights and climate & environmental justice: a landscape review
Engine Room; Ford Foundation; Ariadne; Mozilla Foundation
(2022), 90 pp.
"The aim of this report is to provide a landscape scan of how an extremely diverse set of communities and movements are working at intersections of technology, digital rights, environmental justice and climate justice. The report’s primary audiences are grantmakers and practitioners working in or ...
Revisiting digital inclusion: a survey of theory, measurement and recent research
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Manchester:
Centre for Digital Development
(2022), 50 pp., bibliogr. p.42-50
"Focusing on the internet as a foundational technology, this paper begins by summarising recent developments in digital inclusion theory, particularly as this relates to developing countries. It sets out a framework of core components of digital inclusion - including access/use, quality of access/us...
Digitalisierung als Innovationstreiber in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
Bonn:
Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ)
(2021), 16 pp.
"Wir leben in einer zunehmend digitalen Welt. Weltweit nutzen über vier Milliarden Menschen das Internet – seit 2011 hat sich die Zahl fast verdoppelt. Nach aktuellen Schätzungen werden im Jahr 2023 weltweit rund 30 Milliarden Geräte an das Internet angeschlossen sein. Die fortschreitende Digit...
From digital divide to digital justice in the Global South: conceptualising adverse digital incorporation
Manchester:
Centre for Digital Development
(2021)
"The connection between digital and inequality has traditionally been understood in terms of the digital divide or of forms of digital inequality whose core conceptualisation is exclusion. This paper argues that, as the global South moves into a digital development paradigm of growing breadth and de...
Making open development inclusive: lessons from IDRC research
Cambridge, Mass.:
MIT Press; International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
(2020), xiv, 498 pp., index
ISBN 978-0-262-53911-1 (pbk); 9781552505953 (ebook)
CC BY
"Making Open Development Inclusive: Lessons from IDRC Research focuses on the connection between openness and inclusion in global development. It brings together the latest research that cuts across a wide variety of political, economic, and social arenas - from governance to education to entreprene...
ICT4D 3.0? Part 1—The components of an emerging “digital-for-development” paradigm
Electronic journal of information systems in developing countries (EJISDC), volume 86, issue 3 (2020), 15 pp.
"What has changed in the decade or so since the ideas of a new “ICT4D 2.0” phase were first mooted? This paper reviews those changes, based on a new framework model. At a foundational level, it looks at recent and current trends in digital technologies, data, processes and the implications these...
ICT aid flows from China to African countries: a communication network perspective
International journal of communication, volume 14 (2020), pp. 1-25
"The challenge in evaluating China’s foreign aid has always been the unavailability of reliable data sets. This study constitutes the first analysis of the AidData data set from a communication network perspective. It examines China’s development aid to Africa in the ICT sector from 2000 to 2014...
Checklist for the development of portals for international development
Knowledge management for development journal, volume 14, issue 1 (2019), pp. 83-94
"This guideline has been developed by the authors in a collaborative manner over the period May 2018-May 2019 in consultation with the Knowledge Management for Development (KM4Dev) community. It is designed to provide guidance for development organizations who are setting up portals –also known as...
Technologies of choice? ICTs, development, and the capabilities approach
Cambridge, Mass.:
MIT Press
(2013), xii, 267 pp., bibliogr. p.235-250, index
ISBN 978-0-262-30551-8 (ebook); 978-1-299-18464-0 (print)
"Drawing on Amartya Sen's capabilities approach to development - which shifts the focus from economic growth to a more holistic, freedom-based idea of human development - Dorothea Kleine examines the relationship between ICTs, choice, and development. Kleine proposes a conceptual framework, the Choi...
Digital review of Asia Pacific 2009-2010
Montréal; Ottawa; New Delhi et al.:
Orbicom; International Development Research Centre (IDRC); Sage
(2009), xxvii, 391 pp., abbrev. p.xv-xxvii, index
ISBN 978-81-321-0084-3 (pbk); 978-1-5255-0456-7 (ebook)
"The biennial Digital Review of Asia Pacific is a comprehensive guide to the state-of-practice and trends in information and communication technologies for development (ICTD) in Asia Pacific. This fourth edition (2009-2010) features 30 economies and four subregional groupings. The chapters provide u...
Banking on mobiles: why, how, for whom?
Washington, DC:
Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP)
(2008), 27 pp., illustr., tables, bibliogr. p.24
"This paper examines how banks can translate the potential of mobile phones into greater financial access for poor people. Although mobile phone operators have been able to use the mobile phone for mobile remittance and bill payment services in several countries, banks have had little success in usi...
Compendium on impact assessment of ICT-for-development projects
Ottawa:
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
(2008), iii, 155 pp., illustr., tables, bibliogr. p.114-155
CC BY-SA
"Billions of US dollars are invested each year by the public, NGO and private sectors in information-and-communication-technologies-for-development (ICT4D) projects such as telecentres, village phone schemes, e-health and e-education projects, e-government kiosks, etc. Yet we have very little sense ...
Acacia prospectus 2006-2011
Programm and Partnership Branch International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
(2006), 57 pp., illustr., bibliogr. p.39-41
"Acacia’s mission is very straightforward; it is to support research on ICTs that improve livelihood opportunities, enhance social service delivery, and empower citizens while building the capacity of African researchers and research networks. Towards that end, Acacia has identified three core res...
Local information networks: social and technological considerations
New Delhi:
UNESCO
(2006), 82 pp., illustr.
ISBN 81-89218-08-5
"This publication aims at understanding the nature and importance of various configurations of social and technological networks in community settings that combine to form a Local Information Networks (LIN). In this study LINs are conceptualised as comprising of two very different elements: one soci...
