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Contents 1 General Dev Info 1.1 Dev Theory 1.2 General Resources 1.3 Statistics 1.4 Case Studies 2 Technology and Development 2.1 ICT4Dev Book Store 2.2 DC Meeting Notes 2.3 Reading Notes 2.4 ICTs and Development 2.5 Technology Diffusion 2.6 Criticisms 2.7 Blogging and Knowledge Management 3 Policy 3.1 Fair Trade and Economics 3.2 IPR 3.3 Open Source 3.4 Censorship 4 Environment 5 Peace Corps 6 Regional Information 6.1 India 6.2 Africa 6.3 Latin America / Caribbean

General Dev Info

Dev Theory

General Resources

• DevDir lists over 45k different development organizations by region.
• A Good Place to Start (PDF) lists online resources by dev topic (ageing, agriculture, etc.)

Statistics

• UNDP's statistics
• World Bank QuickQuery
• The WorldMapper remaps the globe according to various statistics gathered mostly by the Bank and the IMF. Particularly interesting are the maps for license fee exports and imports. You can very visually see some winners and losers.
• Economagic has excellent change-over-time series, mostly for the US

Case Studies

• USAID's Development Experience Clearinghouse
• DFID
• UNDP-APDIP Shares Knowledge and Lessons Learned from 56 ICT for Development Projects in the Asia-Pacific Region

Technology and Development

ICT4Dev Book Store

DC Meeting Notes

Reading Notes

ICTs and Development

• • ICT4D Lecture Notes
  • Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries
  • ICTs in Rural Development
  • Culture and ICT

Technology Diffusion

• • OLPC and Cell Phones, other Diffusion models
• Organizations
• Arguments for ICTs in Dev
• Appropriate Technology

Criticisms

• Unintended Consequences
• Laptops and Education

Blogging and Knowledge Management

See Also:

• More ICT4Dev resources, and another Wiki
• Appropriate Technology Wiki
• Organizer's Collective / Grassroots Tech conferences

Policy

Arguments for convergence

Fair Trade and Economics

IPR

Open Source

Censorship

• China

Environment

Peace Corps

Regional Information

India

Africa

Latin America / Caribbean

Instituto para la Conectividad en las Americas : "La promoción de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TICs)es importante para mejorar el desarrollo social y económico, y para reducir la brecha digital. El Instituto para la Conectividad en las Americas (ICA) reune actores de diferentes sectores sociales en América Latina y el Caribe con el fin de implementar redes estratégicas y desarrollar iniciativas de tecnologías innovadoras. El ICA tiene un papel fundamental en el desarrollo de América Latina y el Caribe, facilitando la coordinación y la cooperación entre los países de la región."

• Jamaica
• Nicaragua
• Venezuela
• Guatemala