"ICT4D - the appropriate use of ICT to support poor and marginalised communities across the world; not just giving people ICT skills, but helping them use the potential of ICT to transform their lives"
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INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR DEVELOPMENT
Donors and agencies with particularly significant ICT4D programmes
- ACDI-CIDA (Canada)
- DFID (UK) - see also Imfundo
- Denmark
- France
- Italy
- Netherlands
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- USA
- The European Union
- UNDP's work on ICT4D
The Development Assistance Committee's Donor ICT Strategies Matrix provides information on strategies and includes links to all relevant donor documentation
Significant international and multilateral ICT4D programmes and activities
- Bellanet - using ICTs to promote collaboration
- CATIA - Catalysing Access to ICTs in Africa
- CYTED - Programa IberoAmericano de Ciencia y Tecnología para el Desarrollo
- Global e-Schools and Communities Initiative (GeSCI)
- iConnect Online - information on the application of ICT in sustainable development
- infoDev - promoting ICT for social and economic development
- One World - online Civil Society network
- Think Cycle - addressing design challenges for poor communities by doctoral students at the MIT Media Laboratory
- UN ICT Task Force
