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Social Tech Ecosystems in Sub-Saharan Africa
Top Insights
Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute (M-ITI) (2018), 86 pp.
"Around the world diverse actors are working to develop technology that directly improves social conditions. This report refers to these types of technology as ‘social tech’. Examples of social tech include anti-corruption systems for citizens to report bribes; communications platforms for refug
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Action Steps: A Decade of Civil Society Advocacy in the Information Society. A Baseline Review of the Global Information Society Watch Country Reports (2007-2017)
Association for Progressive Communications (APC);International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2018), 80 pp.
"This review looks back over 11 years of civil society advocacy in the information society – a total of 510 country reports published in Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch) from 2007 to 2017. It covers a period of important global shifts, from the exponential growth and influence of social
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Experiences of ICT Use in Shared, Public Access Settings in Philippine Slums
Development in Practice, volume 28, issue 3 (2018), pp. 358-373
"This article examines how privacy is understood, lived, and negotiated by youth users of information and communication technology (ICT) in slum communities in the Philippines. In the context of shared and public access arrangements prevalent in many low-income communities in the Global South, the a
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Reflecting the Past, Shaping the Future: Making AI Work for International Development
USAID (2018), 97 pp.
"This document aims to inform and empower those who may have limited technical experience as they navigate an emerging ML/AI landscape in developing countries. Donors, implementers, and other development partners should expect to come away with a basic grasp of common ML techniques and the problems
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Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D)
Top Insights
London; New York: Routledge (2018), xviii, 410 pp.
"The first three chapters set out the foundations of ICT4D: the core relation between ICTs and development; the underlying components needed for ICT4D to work; and best practice in implementing ICT4D. Five chapters then analyse key development goals: economic growth, poverty eradication, social deve
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Empowerment as Development: An Outline of an Analytical Concept for the Study of ICTs in the Global South
In: Handbook of Communication for Development and Social Change
Jan Servaes (ed.)
Singapore: Springer (2018), 19 pp.
"It is a certainty that the proliferation of ICTs (mobile phones in particular) has opened up a range of possibilities and new avenues for individuals, aid agencies, and NGOs. However, overviews of communication supposedly for development reveal a field based on economic understandings of developmen
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Reclaiming Information and Communication Technologies for Development
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2017), viii, 226 pp.
"ICTs undoubtedly have the potential to reduce poverty, for example by enhancing education, health delivery, rural develop and entrepreneurship across Africa, Asia and Latin America. However, all too often, projects designed to do so fail to go to scale, and are unsustainable when donor funding ceas
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Data for Development: What’s Next? Concepts, Trends and Recommendations for German Development Cooperation
Bonn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ);Institute of Development Studies (IDS);World Wide Web Foundation; (2017), 83 pp.
"In this report, we look at the state of digital data for development and emerging trends. We aim to support German development cooperation in integrating and prioritising data approaches and investments in their work. In this study we focus on four data categories: big data, open data, citizen-gene
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Terminaux et environnements numériques mobiles dans l'espace francophone
Paris: L'Harmattan (2016), 240 pp.
World Development Report 2016: Digital Dividends
Washington, DC: World Bank (2016), xxiii, 330 pp.
"Digital technologies have spread rapidly in much of the world. Digital dividends—the broader development benefits from using these technologies—have lagged behind. In many instances digital technologies have boosted growth, expanded opportunities, and improved service delivery. Yet their aggreg
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Technology and Society as Embedded: An Alternative Framework for Information and Communication Technology and Development
Media, Culture & Society, volume 38, issue 1 (2016), pp. 107-118
"An emerging topic in the development field is how information and communication technology (ICT) can be used for economic and social development. The general approach relies on technological determinism, whereby the discussion revolves around how and to what extent will ICT support development. It
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A Framework for the Adoption of Information and Communication Technology in Faith-Based Organizations in Kenya: A Case of Comboni Missions
Nairobi: Strathmore University, Master Thesis (2016), viii, 60 pp.
"This research covers the adoption of ICT in Comboni missions, a faith-based organization with operations in Kenya among other global countries. Comboni missions focus on less developed Kenya counties, and in economically challenged areas such as slums in Mathare, Korogocho, Kariobangi in Nairobi. R
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ICTs in Developing Countries: Research, Practices and Policy Implications
London: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), 192 pp.
"ICTs in Developing Countries is a collection of conceptual and empirical works on the adoption and impacts of ICT use in developing societies. Bringing together a wide range of disciplines and contributors, it offers a rich examination of digital divide and ICT for development both in terms of cont
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New Technologies in Developing Societies: From Theory to Practice
London: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), xii, 295 pp.
ICT4D Donor Agencies and Networks
In: International Encyclopedia of Digital Communication and Society
Robin Mansell; Peng Hwa Ang (eds.)
Chichester et al.: Wiley Blackwell (2015), pp. 323-30
SDG ICT Playbook: From Innovation to Impact
NetHope;Intel;Catholic Relief Services (CRS);Microsoft;CDW (2015), 66 pp.
"The playbook addresses ten technology areas and explores how each might be applied to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). We provide a basic overview of each, discuss benefits, trends and challenges and make recommendations for what nonprofits, governments and the private sector can do
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Open Innovation with Social Media: A Source Book for Policy and Decision Makers in International Cooperation
Bonn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2015), 22 pp.
Digital Divides: The New Challenges and Opportunities of E-Inclusion
Boca Raton et al.: CRC Press (2015), xxviii, 300 pp.
"The rapid development of the information society has accentuated the importance of digital divides, which refer to economic and social inequalities among populations due to differences in access to, use of, or knowledge of information and communication technologies (ICT). This book discusses the cu
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Small Island Digital States: How Digital Can Catalyse SIDS Development
UNDP (2014), 178 pp.
The Link Between ICT4D and Modernization Theory
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 4, issue 2 (2014), 22 pp.
"For some decades western institutions have shared an enormous enthusiasm for Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D). Nevertheless, despite the field’s ever-increasing importance, research on it remains fragmented and lacks a theoretical foundation. By establishing a li
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