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Pamela McLean
| | Posted on Thursday, January 23, 2003 - 01:04 am: | |
I would like some examples of good practice that can help us to enable community development. I am particularly interested in the effective use of ICT to help us spread information and opportunites for self-help. (I support Oke-Ogun Community Development Agenda 2000 Plus, a grassroots project in rural Nigeria. My work is voluntary, mainly using my home computer Internet access on behalf of the team. Oke-Ogun in beyond the reach of telephone network so there is no local Internet access.) |
Emmanuel Asomba
| | Posted on Saturday, January 25, 2003 - 07:31 am: | |
Hi Pamela,
The links below should provide some ideas in terms of best practices:
*Interview with Nancy Hafkin on ICT and Gender.
http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/docview?docid=346156
*IICD supported project: Gender Evaluation Methodology for ICT Initiatives.
http://www.iicd.org/base/base_index?project_id=89
*Improved healthcare and Education through Shared ICT Resources. 'Presented within the nigeria context, in the kafanchan area'.
http://www.fantsuam.com/Healthpro.htm
*Outline of Engendering ICT Study initiated by the World Bank.http://www.worldbank.org/gender/ict/
*ICT for Social Enterprise and Sustainable Development.
http://www.hcln.net/socent/ppt/archives.htm
*Helping Non-Profit Sector and Rural Communities Bridge the Digital Divide.
http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/133831/sdm/docview?docid=359102
Hope that these info will be useful.
Cheers -- -- Emmanuel. |
Mark Hammersley
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 29, 2003 - 10:30 pm: | |
World Bank Development Gateway (www.developmentgateway.org/ict) has many resources listed and you can subscribe to a weekly email summarising new additions.
I looked briefly at a new handbook from Oxfam Canada -- it looks promising and I would be interested to know what others think of it:
SHARING KNOWLEDGE HANDBOOK
http://www.oxfam.ca/publications/SharingKnowledge.htm
"Sharing Knowledge is a handbook written by Dr. Kingo Mchombu for men and women working in villages, towns and rural areas who wish to transform their communities through information sharing." |
Ana Maria Harkins
| | Posted on Monday, February 10, 2003 - 09:53 pm: | |
A few more helpful links:
The Association for Progressive Communications is a great window to many tools:
http://www.apc.org/english/capacity/index.shtml
http://www.apc.org/english/news/fulltext.shtml?sh_itm=fb4233129c7e8ce07b210ffee8 6226f7
OneWorld, based in the UK has a wealth of ICT information and best practice- you just have to take the time to wade through it all:
http://www.oneworld.net/
Bridges, based in South Africa is doing good work trying to document best practices as well as who is doing what for ICT and Development:
http://bridges.org/
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j cravens
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 11, 2003 - 09:06 am: | |
There are ever-growing resources on the web focused specifically on your query regarding "opportunites for self-help." A good starting place is Human Service Information Technology Applications (http://www.husita.org/). Their resources can help point you in the right direction.
Also, you noted in your posting that "My work is voluntary, mainly using my home computer Internet access on behalf of the team." That makes you an online volunteer! There are resources that can help you on the UN Volunteer's Online Volunteering Service hosted by NetAid, http://www.netaid.org/ov -- even if you don't find your online volunteering opportunity via NetAid, the information there should be helpful to you in your online volunteering activities. If you would like to submit a story to UNV and NetAid regarding your online volunteering experiences, we would love to hear from you! Please submit your story to volunteers@netaid.org
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Maja Andjelkovic
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 11, 2003 - 10:05 am: | |
You can visit our Projects and Policy sections at http://www.YCDO.net to find some excellent examples of ICT uses for community development. Please keep checking back (especially over the next couple of months) as many more projects will be added to the database. |
Natasha Udu-gama
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 11, 2003 - 12:36 pm: | |
I am a Masters student in Disaster Management at Cranfield University, UK interested in learning a about community-based information strategies post-disaster phase and how those strategies for awareness are integrated within long-term development plans. Are there any systems for developing and disseminating disaster information from the relief phase to recovery and rehabilitation? I would be most appreciative of any help provided. |
Alain PEYRE
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 12, 2003 - 10:05 am: | |
Related to the same, an interesting post from ID21 mailing list Also a point for AWN?!
******** Evaluating websites as a method for disseminating development research How can we find out if a website is effective? What are the characteristics of an effective website? How can websites be improved to make them more accessible to an international audience? http://www.id21.org/society/s4bjt1g1.html
Email request: GET http://www.id21.org/getweb/s4bjt1g1.html Further Information: Jon Taylor, INTRAC, PO Box 563, Oxford, OX2 6RZ, UK Tel: +44 (0)1865 201851 Fax: +44 (0)1865 201852 Email: jutaylor@tinyonline.co.uk |
Carolin Bothe
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 12, 2003 - 12:21 pm: | |
Attached you can find a quite good collection of experience in this field: Collecting and Propagating Local Development Content [pdf 603kb]
Also I suggest to have a look at www.kabissa.org . They provide webspace for african NGOs and to my knowledge have several partners who do not have direct internet access. |
Kate Kroeger
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 12, 2003 - 01:57 pm: | |
One site where you can find lots of information and examples of best practice is infoDev.
The link is: http://www.infodev.org/
Here is an extract from their mission statement:
"infoDev began in September 1995 with the objective of addressing the obstacles facing developing countries in an increasingly information-driven world economy. It is a global grant program managed by the World Bank to promote innovative projects on the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for economic and social development, with a special emphasis on the needs of the poor in developing countries"
Kate Kroeger
Senior Manager
World Schoolhouse
NetAid
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Mark Hammersley
| | Posted on Friday, February 14, 2003 - 09:27 pm: | |
Global Knowledge for Development (GKD) is a mailing list established to facilitate broad discussion of the role and impacts of knowledge, including information/communications technologies (ICTs), for sustainable development. With over 2,500 members from over 100 countries, GKD offers a major forum for the exchange of experience and knowledge. GKD examines a range of themes related to the use of ICTs for development:
* Policies, strategies, tools, and partnerships to improve access to and use of information resources by the poor in rural and urban areas alike
* Case studies, best practices, and other examples of activities that have expanded access to information and knowledge throughout developing countries
* Success stories of efforts, including public-private partnerships, to build "knowledge for development" capacity in developing countries
* Research findings related to information/communications technologies (ICTs) and development
http://www.edc.org/GLG/gkd/ |
Anthony Dioka
Guest
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 18, 2003 - 03:56 pm: | |
The Human Development Report 2001 dealth with the theme of 'Making new technologies work for human development' and is a good reference material on how ICT can aid rural development. Search our website - http://www.undp.org for the document on-line. |
Ana Maria Harkins
Guest
| | Posted on Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 09:21 pm: | |
I have one more good resource guide related to ICTs and community development:
A handbook written by Dr. Kingo Mchombu for men and women working in villages, towns and rural areas who wish to transform their communities through information sharing. The author is the Head of the Department of Information and Communication Studies at the University of Namibia and a leading scholar on information and rural development. Sharing Knowledge is published by the Oxfam Horn of Africa Capacity Building Program with the support of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).
URL: http://www.oxfam.ca/publications/SharingKnowledge.htm
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Sylvia O. Inciong
Guest
| | Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2003 - 05:49 pm: | |
The following resources - also online - might contain helpful information:
* The UNITeS Knowledge Base for ICT Volunteers in Development has been prepared to help ICT volunteers working in developing countries. It contains information on software, hardware, Web design, community technology centers, and other related resources.
http://www.unites.org/Html/Resource/knowledge/index.htm
* The Sharing Knowledge Handbook is a handbook for men and women working in villages, towns, and rural areas who wish to transform their communities through information sharing.
http://www.oxfam.ca/publications/SharingKnowledge.htm
* The World Bank's Indigenous Knowledge Database provides users with quick access to a collection of indigenous/traditional practices searchable by
country, activity, and technology.
http://www4.worldbank.org/afr/ikdb/search.cfm
Hope this will be useful. Best regards.
Sylvia |
Bharat Kunwar
Guest
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 03, 2004 - 02:22 pm: | |
Hello peeps, how u doin! What is this forum about. Whats all those crap stuffies u have got there! Just found this page while I was visiting google and searched for "ICT in Community" coz i needed some help on my ICT Project where u have to write about how people use ICT in community to do stuffs... |
Zulfiqar Khan
Guest
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 22, 2004 - 06:55 am: | |
I think, we should brainstorm on the fact that as developing countries making a move towards economic development, digital divide where few people control the information and hence the decision making process may become a hard reality for all of us. I believe inequities are expected to grow with this approach unless greater clarity on the application of IT and positive initiatives are taken and learnt across, especially by those who are involved in the development of the most vulnerable.
Recently, I have come across an interesting ICT project, developed jointly by GO/NGO in Indian state of Gujarat from the point of enabling rural communities access usable data for decision making. In other words, it is developed to help the villagers to solve many of their dilemmas and problems and arrive at proper decisions. The user friendly software developed under the project contains primary information pertaining to various facets of rural life demography, education, health, basic amenities, markets, government and other development efforts, key persons in the village etc. The databank has been linked to the maps of the three blocks to make it more meaningful and helps ascertain the spatial implications of the information collected. This is followed by use of satellite images of the region to ascertain the land use patterns, water bodies, vegetation, distances and areas. The Census data is the third databank used in the information bank. Simple pre defined queries has been developed to satisfy various sets of users.
Since, we have been deliberating on the application of ICT for community development, I think this case would help us in developing further innovative ideas that would ultimately facilitate in reducing the information gap between have and have not. I will appreciate, if people involved also share some of other successful cases. |
Titus Tossy
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Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Friday, October 14, 2005 - 12:07 pm: | |
I am student at Coventry University, I am doing my research on "The ICT as an effective Rural development accelerator", may you kindly help me to get materials on this topic, I will be very happy to receive your help on this. Hoping to produce valuable materials for developing countries. Help me |
Eniayewu omobolanle
Guest
| | Posted on Friday, December 16, 2005 - 03:06 pm: | |
please i am a student carrying out a research on self help projects and its impact on community development in rural areas in Nigeria. would be grateful for your assistance. thanks |
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