Resources and websites about ICT in developing countries
The GATEWAY to International
Development Jobs
and Consultancy Assignments --- DEVNETJOBS
The
Global Knowledge Partnership ICT4D
Platform @ WSIS Geneva 9-13 December 2003
'Bio-village
concept worthy of emulation'
The Hindu, Feb. 10, '04.
HIV/AIDS
Advice Hotline Digitaldividend.com.
Rural
Life Insurance Digitaldividend.com.
Chalta
Flirta Rickshaw Mobile Phones Digitaldividend.com.
Asian IT ministers call for standardisation in ICT
Express Computer, Jan. 26, '04.
IT
for e-powerment? The
Hindu, Jan. 22, '04.
Land
offices to be automated Business
Standard, Jan. 24, '04.
Microsoft rolls out IT literacy project in Andhra T. of India, Jan. 15, '04.
Technology and Social Inclusion Rethinking the Digital Divide The MIT Press, February 2003
'e-chaupal mixes social goals with profitability' The E. Times, Jan. 14, '04.
Gene Campaign http://www.genecampaign.org/
World Summit on the Information Technology Geneva 2003 -Tunis 2005
corporate
training and consulting organisation, set up in 1999, based in Bangalore
(and on the Web!).
http://www.navgati-india.com/
World Resources Institute Digital Dividend http://www.digitaldividend.org/
India - General Information http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles/index.asp?iso3=IND&lang=en
Summit adopts plan of action on technology ABC News Online, Dec. 15, '03.
DigitalGovernance.org Initiative http://65.110.68.184/artman/publish/index1.shtml
Open Knowledge Network http://www.openknowledge.net/
The Markle Foundation http://www.markle.org/news/_news_pressrelease_072200.stm
United Nations Development Program Initiative http://www.sdnp.undp.org/it4dev/ffICTe.pdf
Swedish
International Development Agenct (Sida) initiative to produce country ICT Surveys
for four countries
Rwanda, Tanzania,
Mozambique and Sri Lanka.http://www.sida.se/Sida/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=321&a=9481
MOSAIC,
a consortium of universities has
done case study and self assessments for some 25 countries:
http://som.csudh.edu/fac/lpress/gdiff/index.htm
http://som.csudh.edu/fac/lpress/gdiff/gdiffprojects.htm
Harvard
University's Center for International Development has a methodology which
is available on the web:
http://www.cid.harvard.edu/cr/gitrr_030202.html
http://www.readinessguide.org/
Its
Connected Community Guide to Electronic Commerce Readiness is available at
http://www.connectedcommunities.net/assessment_guide.htm
The
Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation has produced an "E-commerce
Assessment Readiness Guide",
http://www.ita.doc.gov/td/industry/otea/ecommerce/apec/
which
has been applied in Hong Kong:
http://www.info.gov.hk/digital21/eng/ecommerce/ec_assessment.html
The
Information Society Commission has produced "Benchmarking Ireland in
the Information Society":
http://www.isc.ie/cgi-local/publications.cgi?f=exec&id=39
Top infoDev
"A toolkit for
Networking Progress in Developing Countries":
http://www.infodev.org/projects/internet/400networkingrevolution/analysystoolkit.ppt
Pyramid
Research report on Information Infrastructure Indicators:
http://www.infodev.org/projects/internet/375pyramid/
The
World Bank has produced an useful Knowledge Assessment Matrix Interactive
website.
http://www1.worldbank.org/gdln/kam.htm
Comparative
estimates of E-Readiness are available at http://www.idate.fr/an/publi/revu/num/n41/kenny_a.html
McConnell International data for 42 countries: http://www.mcconnellinternational.com/ereadiness/default.cfm
The World Times publishes a Information Society Index: http://www.worldpaper.com/home.html
The
Economist Intelligence Unit Business E-Readiness
Assessments http://www.ebusinessforum.com/index.asp?layout=rich_story&doc_
id=367&country_id=VN&channelid=6&categoryid=20&title=Introducing+the+EIU%27s+e%2Dbusiness%2Dreadiness+rankings+World
http://www.ebusinessforum.com/index.asp?layout=rich_story&doc_id=367&country_id=PL&channelid=6&categoryid=20&title=Introducing+
the+EIU%27s+e%2Dbusiness%2Dreadiness+rankings+World
The
European Survey of Information survey of Information Society Projects and
Actions:
http://europa.eu.int/ISPO/esis/default.htm
The US Agency for International Development assessments for 13 countries. http://www.usaid.gov/info_technology/ied/
The
Leland Initiative :Assessments for 21 countrieshttp://www.usaid.gov/leland/countries.htm
Measuring E-readiness of agencies
cooperating with its programs in African countries:
http://www.usaid.gov/regions/afr/leland/enduser.htm
The International Telecommunications Union Case Studies: http://www.itu.int/ti/casestudies/
The
United Nations Research Institute for Social Development series on Senegal:
http://www.infodev.org/ereadiness/methodology.htm
A list of countries participating in the Development Gateway
initiative can be found at http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/137849/cs-docs?d_id=1
The UK "Mapping e-commerce" website http://www.e-envoy.gov.uk/estatmap/estatmap.htm
The UN Economic Commission for Africa : http://www.uneca.org/aisi/nici.htm
The Internet Economy Indicators web site:http://www.internetindicators.com/
The A.T.Kearney/Foreign Policy Magazine Globalization Index:http://www.foreignpolicy.com/issue_janfeb_2001/atkearney.html
Larry Press on indicators for the
Internet
http://www.cisp.org/imp/november_2000/press/11_00press.htm
http://www.cisp.org/imp/march_2001/press/03_01press_column.htm
ASEAN Readiness Indicators for the Digital Economy and IT Developmenthttp://itmatters.com.ph/indicators/indicator.html
CISCO Systems has a Net Ready guide for businesses:http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/779/ibs/netreadiness/
PriceWater House, E-business Readiness Survey http://www.ereadiness.pwcglobal.com/
The Association for the Development of Education in Africahttp://www.adeanet.org/publications/wghe/tert_disted_en.pdf
WITSA International Survey of E-Commerce http://www.witsa.org/papers/EComSurv.pdf
Digital Planet 2000 indicators:http://www.witsa.org
European Survey of Information Society Projects and Actionshttp://europa.eu.int/ISPO/esis/default.htm
The UCLA Internet Project about the impact of the Internet:http://ccp.ucla.edu/pages/StudyDescription.asp
E-Cities Internet Readiness Self-Assessment http://www.iplaninc.com/BOISE/boiasmnt.htm
The
Center for Research on Information Technology in Organizations (CRITO) of
U.C Irvine
http://www.crito.uci.edu/frameset-ie.htm
2001
National Technology Readiness Survey http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/pr/NTRS.doc