Tuesday, February 15, 2005

ICT for Poverty Reduction & Growth - Development Gateway

ICT for Poverty Reduction & Growth This page is listing useful resources exploring a great potential of ICTs to reduce poverty and empower the poor to help themselves. Please share some other useful links with our community! Or leave a comment! See also our special feature on ICT for Poverty Reduction & Economic Growth
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/ict/rc/BrowseContent.do~source=RCContentUser~folderId=3082

Infodev - The Information for Development Program

The Information for Development Program ( infoDev) helps developing countries and their international partners use information and communication broadly and effectively as tools of poverty reduction and sustainable economic growth. Housed at the World Bank, it is supported by more than 20 donors partners(recomendado por Rafael Capurro)http://www.infodev.org/

Internet Governance Project

Syracuse University
Georgia institute Of Technology
Center for Comparative and International Studies of the University of Zurich and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

The Internet Governance Project (IGP) is an interdisciplinary consortium of academics with scholarly and practical expertise in international governance, Internet policy, and information and communication technology. The Project is conducting research on and publishing analysis of Internet governance.
Some of the work is intended to contribute to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), and the United Nations Working Group on Internet Governance, as well as related debates at the international, regional and national levels.
http://www.internetgovernance.org/