WSIS Stocktaking and Golden Book

Launched, respectively, in October 2005 and February 2006, both the Report on the WSIS Stocktaking and the Golden Book project gather projects around ICT4D, the MDG and all the goals of the WSIS.

The Report on the WSIS Stocktaking gives a brief summary of the many projects and initiatives being implemented at the local, national and international levels around the world, with a special focus on multi-stakeholder partnerships as an important means of mainstreaming ICTs in all aspects of life.

The Golden Book project […] complements the WSIS Stocktaking exercise, but focuses specifically on new projects conceived or undertaken during the Tunis Phase and new financial commitments for activities related to WSIS implementation. The intention is to mobilise and promote commitments, an raise awareness of them and their profile in the media.

I guess the best resources — as usual — are both databases. BTW, they don’t have the same information, though one might think that the Stocktaking database should include the Golden Book database.

[first seen, in part, in the DG]

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Millennium Development Goals links

Looking for some information on the MDG, I found plenty of “official” sites. Being unable to discriminate the best amongst them, here they go:

If this list updated, that’ll happen in the Millennium Development Goals page in the ICT4D Wiki.

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Open Access at UOC

Max and I are organizing an informal meeting next Thursday to start something the like of a debate on open access and free software issues at UOC.

We are inviting Xavier de Pedro (Grup pel Coneixement lliure a la UB, Projecte UniWiki d’Innovació Docent) so he can explain us his/their experiences in fostering open access in learning materials, research publications, and so, and see wheter this can be followed in our university.

The rendez vous is at CometaCinc restaurant, March 16th, at 19:00. If feel like coming, just drop me a line.

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ICT4D Journal: Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries

The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries (EJISDC) strives to become the foremost international forum for practitioners, teachers, researchers and policy makers to share their knowledge and experience in the design, development, implementation, management and evaluation of information systems and technologies in developing countries.

The table of contents of their last issue looks interesting enough :) All articles provided with abstract and full text in free to download PDF files.

[thanks Aina for the tip]

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Book: Access, Empowerment & Governance: Creating a World of Equal Opportunities with ICT

Abdul Rahim, R., Siegenthaler Muinde, G. & Waldburger, D. (2005). Access, Empowerment & Governance: Creating a World of Equal Opportunities with ICT. Kuala Lumpur: Global Knowledge Partnership.
Retrieved March 07, 2006 from http://www.globalknowledge.org/gkps_portal/view_file.cfm?fileid=3502

Categories:
Digital Inclusion | e-Government | Participation

Abstract:

This book argues that Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) can play a decisive role in both. Drawing on current research, learning and experience from concrete projects, the authors show that ICT provide an overarching enabling platform for development processes. Because of their generic and transformative power, ICT can not only contribute to the achievement of specific development objectives in areas such as health or education, but are also key enablers of sustainable human development in a more general sense.

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Book: Village Phone Replication Manual

If “yesterday” I wrote about Wireless Networking in the Developing World, now’s the time for Village Phone’s initiatives.

Famous — and well deserved — due to the work of the Grameen Foundation, the Village Phone programme bases its ICT4D policy in mobile phones instead of desktops with Internet access, and its best asset is the sustainability of the project itself.

The Village Phone Replication Manual

is a guideline for replicating the Village Phone program in a new country. It draws on the experience Grameen has had in both Bangladesh and Uganda and establishes a template for creating sustainable initiatives that simultaneously bring telecommunications to the rural poor, create viable new businesses for micro-entrepreneurs, and expand the customer base of telecommunications companies.

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