eDevelopment, eCooperation: connecting the worlds of information and development
Title:
eDevelopment, eCooperation: connecting the worlds of information and development
Author:
Ballantyne, Peter
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Volume 32 (2002) nr. 3 pages 365-379
Year:
2002-10-01
Contents:
As concerns with knowledge move closer to the development mainstream, donors, governments, the private sector and civil society are hastening to include information and communications technologies (ICTs) in their portfolios. On the ground implementation is beginning to throw up lessons and conclusions familiar to anybody working in development for a year or more. Blinded by the technologies perhaps, existing development principles and lessons are being rediscovered and disseminated in any number of international task forces and reports. This paper introduces some recent trends in international development cooperation, arguing that applying these to ICT projects would likely accelerate their impact - making them more e-ffective, e-mpowering, and e-fficient. It would also free up effort and learning to examine the unique characteristics of ICTs and their impacts on development, if such exist. The current strategy of the International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) is presented to illustrate the application of these development principles to an ICT-oriented organisation.
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