ICT in poverty reduction

31.03.2006 A key component of e-governance is to provide governments with a citizen-friendly face.

30.03.2006 India has sent the maximum number of entries at the Stockholm Challenge 2006 competition that honours innovative ways of using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to improve people's lives.

30.03.2006 By the year 2010, every high school student will have first-hand experience with computers as information and communications technology (ICT) development will spread even to rural areas in Cebu province.

29.03.2006 VSNL and Sify will run the RailTel express cybercafes to be set up at 82 railway stations in the current year.

29.03.2006 An Israeli company is using the latest water-saving technology to grow fruit and vegetables in Angola, which imports much of its food after 27 years of civil war.

29.03.2006 Good communication is vital to small farmers who need better access to markets and to reliable information about prices, product quality and market conditions. Can new information and communication technologies (ICTs), especially the Internet, help? The First Mile is a two-year pilot project supported by the Government of Switzerland.

27.03.2006 Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) has launched a new youth programme designed to encourage young leaders to be a catalyst for positive change and to serve as role models in their societies. The Youth Social Enterprise Initiative (YSEI) is the only programme of its kind designed to support projects by young people between the ages of 17 to 30, who use innovative solutions to address social problems, specifically those using Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D).

24.03.2006 The use of e-commerce by businesses in developing countries is related to the potential benefits of participating in international value chains, increasing market access and reach, improving internal and market efficiency, and lowering transaction costs.

23.03.2006 India’s VSNL has selected Aperto Networks, developer of advanced WiMAX base stations, for the rollout of the carrier’s multi-service broadband wireless systems in over 65 cities across the country.

21.03.2006 Farmer-based organisations (FBOs) in the country are to benefit from a series of workshops to educate them on the use of cellular phones to access market information.

20.03.2006 Some 4,2 million Moroccans, which constitute 14.2% of the population, were poor in 2004, said the report on “Poverty, Human Development and Social Development in Morocco”, submitted this week by the High Commissioner for Planning, Ahmed Lahlimi.

13.03.2006 The role of information and communications technology (ICT) in development has been stressed by speaker after speaker at the World Telecommunications Development conference in Doha.

13.03.2006 For a country with a population of a hundred crore plus, India has only 4.26 crore taxpayers.

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09.03.2006 This paper discusses the topic of volunteering in the Information Society, and in particular, the role of volunteering in relation to information and communications technology (ICT) for human development.

09.03.2006 Information Technology based ‘Poultry Expert System’ (PES) is an user-friendly software developed in Visual Basic 6.0 and MS Access on the perceived information needs of commercial poultry farmers.

09.03.2006 "Together to Market" is a CD-ROM of a series of short radio programmes of "spots" which aims to stimulate interest among small farmers in farming groups to market their produce more effectively.

07.03.2006 The World Telecommunication Development Conference, which opens in Doha today, is to lay the foundation for ITU's role in achieveing the goals of the 'Doha action Plan' following the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and implementing its objectives.

06.03.2006 OneWorld South Asia held a six-day learning exchange programme for NGOs that gave participants a practical overview of various ICT initiatives in India. It also gave an insight into various models of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) being put to use in rural India. Achieving sustainability was the key to all the initiatives.

02.03.2006 An ICT (Information and Communication Technology)-based initiative in the Rajasthan desert by TERI is serving the rural population of about 90 villages, catering to their need for quality information and services. The project seeks to bridge the digital divide and information is provided to people, who are largely known as 'information have-nots'.