Courses on ICT4D across the world

• ICT4D at Royal Holloway, University of London - free course materials
• ICT4D Stream in Practising Sustainable Development Master's Programme at Royal Holloway, University of London
• Barbara Fillip's course on ICT4D: Knowledge for Development
• Information and Communication Technologies for Development at Centre for Development, Environment and Policy, SOAS
• An Information and Communications Technology Framework for Developing Regions at UC Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon
• Master's Programme in Communication for Development at Malmö University, led by Oscar Hemer
• ICT4D course in the Computer Science Department at the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa
• MSc in ICTD at the Atlas Institute, Univeristy of Colorado at Boulder

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International organisations involved in ICT4D

• Our list of Donors and Programmes involved in ICT4D
• GAID - the UN's Global Alliance for ICT and Development
• SPIDER - the Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions
  • PID - SPIDERS PhD Student Network
• @LIS (Alianza entre Europa y Latinoamérica en la Sociedad de la Información) - the Europe Latin-America cooperation portal on the Information Society
• FUNREDES - a NGO with head office in the Dominican Republic, and dedicated to the dissemination of new ICTs in developing countries, especially in Latin America and the Caribbean
• International Institute for Communication and Development
• International Development Research Centre
• Global Development Learning Network
• Development Gateway
  • Open Educational Resources
  • ICT for Development
• Global e-Schools and Communities Initiative (GESCI)
• The Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP)
• OneWorld
• Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GESI)
• Tactical Tech - an international NGO helping human rights advocates use information, communications and digital technologies to maximise the impact of their advocacy work
• UNESCO's Communication and Information Division
• Commonwealth of Learning
• UNDP's work on ICT4D
• IT for Change (ITfC) a network of development professionals engaged with the discourse on Information Technology for Development (based in India)
• Digital Opportunity Trust (DOT)
• ICTD program at the Center for Internet Studies in the University of Washington, Seattle, and designed to advance the role of universities in ICT4D
• Connectivity for Refugees - based in Melbourne and aimed at enhancing refugee integration in Australian society
• The TIER (Technology and Infrastructure for Emerging Regions) Group at University of California, Berkeley

The ICT4D Collective's student web-sites and bibliographical resources

This section of our site holds the web-sites and annotated bibliographies on various ICT4D issues prepared by undergraduates studying the ICT4D course at Royal Holloway, University of London since 2004. They have been specifically designed to be of benefit to poor and marginalised communities across the world.

Web-sites

• Eyes for development
• Yellow Fever in Africa
• Malaria in India
• Aids Support Awareness Project
• Waterborne disease advice centre
• Water purification, sanitation and hygiene
• Healthy Homes (2010)
• Cholera (2011)
• Dengue Fever Information Hub (2011)
• Empowering Energies (2011)
• Flood Relief: uniting women in raising awareness for the Pakistan flood crisis (2011)

Annotated Bibliographies

Annotated bibliographies on many different aspects of ICT4D prepared by students in

• 2004-2005
• 2005-2006
• 2006-2007
• 2007-2008
• 2008-2009
• 2009-2010
• 2010-2011

Private sector led initiatives

• 50x15 - An initiative established by AMD to enable affordable, accessible Internet connectivity and computing capabilities for 50 percent of the world’s population by the year 2015.
• Cisco's Networking Academy initiative - providing skills people need to work in the IT industry
• Intel's Teach Program - helps teachers around the world understand ICT use
• Microsoft's Partners in Learning initiative
• The World Economic Forum's Global Education Initiative
  • Partnerships for Education initiative with UNESCO

ICT4D Publications

• I4D Online
• Information Technologies and International Development
• digital Learning - the monthly publication on ICT and Education for Asia and the Middle East
• Journal of e-Government
• International Journal of Education and Developmnet using ICT
• ICT4D - Connecting People for a Better World - the book from the ICT4D Forum at WSIS Geneva (2003) published in 2004
• UNDP-APDIP ICT4D Publication Series
• The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries
• Grey literature archive on ICT for Sustainable Development from the University of Washington
• ECDPM (the European Centre for Development Policy Management) Communication and Information Programme InBrief 11 publications
• Digital Review of Asia and the Pacific

Other useful links

• Point Topic - one of the best sites for global statistics on broadband communication.
• The ITU's statistics on ICT
• UNECA's ICT maps of Africa
• The Millennium Development Goals
• The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
• The BBC World Service Trust site on Development Communications
• ICT Update - a current awareness bulletin for ACP Agriculture