e-Rural Development

Useful e-rural development sites

• ICT for Rural Livelihoods - knowledge map for enhancing the livelihoods of the rural poor through ICTs (RAPID and infoDev)
• ICT for Agriculture - informal group about how ICTs can support agriculture
• Agrifeeds - a "one-stop shop" on recent news and upcoming events related to agriculture
• FAO's materials:
  • e-Agriculture
  • capacity building portal
• ICT Update - a current awareness bulletin for ACP
• Agriculture International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
  • IFAD's contributions at WSIS
• www.iclei.org - local governments for sustainability
• First Mile Solutions
• ICTs and sustainable rural development (UNESCAP)
• Rural Development web-sites by Swiss developmentdotcom
• Big-World's list of ICT for rural development sites

Useful general material on rural development

• Rural Poverty Portal
• CGIAR - the Consultative Group on International Agricultural research
• Swiss platform on agricultural research for development
• GTZ's Rural Development theme

Africa

• PRIDE (Promotion of Rural Initiatives and Development Enterprises), a US non-profit company with regional offices in Nairobi, Kenya
• COFISA - using ICTs to optimise rural development in South Africa
• Busoga Rural Open Source and Development Initiative (BROSDI) in Uganda
• The African Agricultural Technology Foundation - a public-private partnership foundation to serve smallholder farmers
• Network for Eco-Farming in Africa

India

• e-Choupal - ITC's rural development programme
• Digital Green - a Microsoft Research project that disseminates agricultural information to farmers through digital video
• Rural Informatics from the Ministry of Rural Development
• Infochange India - development news channel
• Hole in the Wall - in both urban and rural areas
• M S Swaminathan Foundation working in rural areas
• Video on ICT for Rural Development based on experiences of the Self Employed Women's Association
• Anudip - helping to support disadvantaged people through the creation of local businesses and training people from rural areas in computer skills

Latin America

• The Latin American Network Information Centre
• Campo-Latino (in Spanish)
• Association of ecological producers in Bolivia (AOPEB) (in Spanish )

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