ICTlogy

Use of ICTs in development cooperation models

• More efficacy, based on knowledge-intensive projects
• Usefulness must drive the implementation of ICTs, not hype
• ICTs for a better nonprofit performance and for better project results
• Learn from ICT adoption in developing countries and apply them in developed ones
• ICTs challenge the traditional design of the nonprofit sector
• Capacity building a must for nonprofits to benefit from ICTs
• Usability, accessibility, content, sustainability
• e-Governance to enhance citizen engagement

Networked cooperation

• A necessary response to the Network Society
• Shift from hierarchy to horizontal interaction
• Human networks boosted by technological networks
• Knowledge sharing
• Project-centered cooperation, enabling inclusion
• Multistakeholder partnerships
• Decentralized networks for collaboration, while keeping autonomy
• Centralized networks still useful for certain actions
• Networking requires (network) managing skills
• The network must be properly designed, in transparent ways, making its goals explicit, lead it through confidence
• Network design and building as investment in research, development and innovation

ICTs in the Spanish Development Cooperation

• Great advances in the last times that draw an optimistic future
• Networking to seek harmonization between organizations
• Quality fostering
• ICTs to achieve leadership/excellence in development cooperation
• Effort to share both experiences and capabilities

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