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Access and Inclusion
This section provides information relating to disparities in access to the Internet and challenges to implementing communications initiatives in developing countries. The potential presented by the adoption of appropriate and locally-adapted technologies is also addressed. Also see this section for relevant resources relating to capacity and infrastructure development and young people, civil societies and NGOs.What else would you like to see here? Suggest a resource / topic for inclusion on the ADG.
Digital divide & challenges to implementation
- Digital inclusion projects in developing countries
- Better connected: empowering people through communications technology
- The digital divide: barriers to e-learning
- Nepal wireless networking project
- Overcoming the barriers to ICT access
- Barriers to adopting ICT and e-commerce with SMEs in developing countries: Sri Lanka
- Who benefits from the digital divide?
- Information literacy in national ICT policies
- Negotiating the net
- Digital opportunity channel
- The Digital Divide: ICT Development Indices 2004
- Spanning the digital divide: understanding and tackling the issues
- Digital dividends for the poor
- The gap between those who are able to harness the power of the Internet and those who are not
- Bytes for All: making IT relevant to south Asians
Infrastructure development
- A digital inclusion advocacy toolkit: bridging the digital divide in municipal broadband projects
- Motivating community-based ICT infrastructure development
- Financing information & communication infrastructure needs in the developing world
- Internet infrastructure and e-governance in Pacific Islands countries
Gender
- ICT for women's socio-economic empowerment
- Gender in the information society: emerging issues
- Gender, information technology & developing countries: an analytic study
- Engendering ICT toolkit: challenges and opportunities for gender-equitable development
- The local-global connection in the information society: gender, development
- Gender in the information society: emerging issues
- Using the technology adoption model to analyse internet adoption and use in Indonesia
- Gender and ICT
- Gender assessment of selected e-business and strategies in Asia
- Gender evaluation methodology
- Gender and ICTs for development: a global sourcebook
- Gender equality and the empowerment of women through ICT
- Turning analog women into a digital work force: plugging women into the Asia-Pacific economy
Young people
Civil societies and NGOs
Rural access and telecentres
- Information & Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) - Nenasala Interim Survey, Final Report March 2008
- International community telecenter resource site
- Output-based aid in Mongolia : expanding telecommunications services to rural areas
- Rethinking telecentre sustainability: how to implement a social enterprise approach
- SMS helped check bird flu in Orissa
- Telecentre sustainability: financing ICTs for the poor
- Exploring the ICT and rural poverty reduction link: community telecenters in China
- Climate, communications & innovative technologies: radio & internet linkages in rural African communities
- Rural development and ICT case study: Solomon Islands
- ICTs for agricultural livelihoods
- Taking ICT to every Indian village: opportunities and challenges
- Connecting island communities: a regional approach to supporting the telecentre movement in the Pacific
- ICT4D: an integrated approach for village communities
- Telecentre handbook
- ICTs, e-learning & simulations: bringing knowledge-intensive management to Asian agriculture
- Making e-Learning work in the Asia Pacific: lessons learned
- Information and Communication Technology in rural development
- OrphanIT
Capacity development and empowerment
- Engaging with Aboriginal learners in ICT: resource kit
- Microsoft unlimited potential community technology skills program
- Supporting a community of trainers
- ICTs in education and training in Asia and the Pacific
- ItrainOnline
- ITrain: computer and Internet training manuals
- Training workshop: managing information using databases
Appropriate technologies
- FrontlineSMS
- Low-cost ICT devices: overview
- Quick guide to low-cost computing devices and initiatives for the developing world
- Participatory spatial information management and communication in developing countries
- The Open Knowledge Network: a proposal for local content creation and exchange
- Local content creation and ICT for development