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ICTs for development: from e-Readiness to e-Awareness

By Ismael Peña-López (@ictlogist), 20 November 2007
Main categories: Digital Divide, Digital Literacy, e-Government, e-Administration, Politics, e-Readiness, ICT4D
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Today I imparted a seminar belonging to the Executive Master in e-Governance organized by the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and partnered by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.

General information

I just want to thank the attendants to the course for being such an interesting audience and for making me think because of their witty questions.

Syllabus

Information and Communication Technologies for Development: ICT4D
  • Food or computers?
  • Efficacy, efficiency
  • Leapfrogging Development
  • Second Bests
  • Endogenous development
The concept of access and the measurement of the Knowledge Society
  • The Telecommunications Model: limitations
  • The Broadcasting Model: limitations
  • Access vs. Ownership: different solutions
  • Access vs. use
Digital Divide: a holistic approach
  • A five tier model
  • Old and new divides
  • Hardware
  • Software
  • The broadband divide
  • Informational Literacy
  • Content and Intellectual Property
  • e-Awareness and the leadership divide
e-Readiness and Web 2.0 for e-Governance in Developing Countries
  • e-Participation and e-Democracy
  • Censorship circumvention and freedom of speech
  • Transparency and accountability
  • Law enforcement
  • Open Access and access to knowledge

Slides

Recommended Bibliography

Center for International Development at Harvard University. (Ed.) (2000). Readiness for the Networked World. A Guide for Developing Countries. Cambridge: Center for International Development at Harvard University. Retrieved February 17, 2006 from http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/readinessguide/guide.pdf
Economist Intelligence Unit. (2007). The 2007 e-readiness rankings. London: EIU. Retrieved May 01, 2007 from http://graphics.eiu.com/files/ad_pdfs/2007Ereadiness_Ranking_WP.pdf
International Telecommunication Union. (2006). World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report 2006: Measuring ICT for social and economic development. Geneva: ITU.
International Telecommunication Union. (2007). World Information Society Report 2007. Geneva: ITU. Retrieved May 18, 2007 from http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/publications/worldinformationsociety/2007/WISR07_full-free.pdf
OECD. (2007). OECD Communications Outlook 2007. Paris: OECD. Retrieved October 10, 2007 from http://www.oecd.org/document/17/0,3343,en_2649_34225_38876369_1_1_1_1,00.html#HTO
Peña-López, I. (2007). “Jakob Nielsen’s Digital Divide: The Three Stages”. In ICTlogy, February 2007, (41). Barcelona: ICTlogy. Retrieved March 01, 2007 from http://ictlogy.net/review/?p=504
The World Bank. (Comp.) (2003). ICT and Development – Enabling the Information Society. Washington, DC: The World Bank. Retrieved May 17, 2005 from http://iris37.worldbank.org/domdoc/PRD/Other/PRDDContainer.nsf/WB_ViewAttachments?ReadForm&ID=85256D2400766CC78525709E005A9C6A&
Tongia, R., Subrahmanian, E. & Arunachalam, V. (2005). Information and Communications Technology for Sustainable Development. Bangalore: Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd.. Retrieved November 03, 2005 from http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rtongia/ICT4SD_Full_Book.pdf
World Economic Forum. (2007). Global Information Technology Report 2006-2007. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

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