ICT for development

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• ICT4D: Past mistakes, future wisdom

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 705
  While there has been great excitement and buzz around various ICT4D projects in recent years, it is also true that many projects started with a bang and later died with a whimper. In short, they have not been scalable or sustainable in the long run. What makes an ICT4D project fizzle? What are the common mistakes ...
  2 weeks ago

• ICT4D for Women: Opportunities and Risks

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 705
  As digital technologies open up new spaces and possibilities, there is a lot of optimism about empowerment of women, and alleviation of gender disparity. According to the ITU, the UN agency for ICT issues: Information and communication technologies (ICTs) can be used to close the gender gap by creating new jobs ...
  3 weeks ago

• M-banking: Going where no bank has gone before

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 705
  Millions and millions of low-income, unbanked people stand to benefit (and maybe prosper?) from the development of mobile financial services in the next years. Many people already transfer payments and remittances through mobile phones, and even store and save money on them as a virtual bank. And the number of people ...
  3 weeks ago

• Disaster Management and the role of ICTs (Part 2)

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 705
  In the first post of this series, we saw how various citizen-coordinated initiatives came into play during natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina or the Indian Ocean Tsunami , to help in the response and recovery and even function as disaster management systems. In this post, we will examine some more ICT ...
  3 weeks ago

• Indias tryst with e-health: A healthier future for its rural millions?

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 705
  About 700 km away from Bangalore, across a couple of remote villages in the Bidar district, a quiet revolution has been going on. No, not a political one, but a remarkable pilot project in telemedicine . Local pediatricians are using the iPhone to connect with experts in Bangalore for screening and diagnosis of a ...
  4 weeks ago

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