12 Habits of Highly Effective ICT-Enabled Development Initiatives | bridges.org - The Diigo Meta page

• 02 Nov 09
  

  Randy Lyseng

  ICT planning TIPSTeam

  • It's not about the technology, it's about the people
  • Habit 2. Conduct a thorough needs assessment of the community to be served so you can plan to do what is actually required.
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  • • The needs assessment should fully investigate current technology use in the area to be served, including local capacity to use the technology; the availability of technical support; the kinds of services that people and organizations would be willing to pay for and what may need to be provided for free; the training needed to integrate technology use into daily routines of the target groups (training in technology use and business processes); the availability and reliability of electricity and phone lines; secure storage for technology; and many other factors.
    • Habit 3. Make it local: ensure local ownership, get local buy-in, work with a local champion, and be context specific.
    • Working with a local champion can help make a project that originates from outside become more locally-driven. A local champion is someone who understands and embraces the objectives and sees the big picture, supports technology-based solutions, is trusted by the community served, and shares a vision for the future.
    • . The champion should play a key role in communication with the community, be an advisor to the initiative, and act as a catalyst to help the initiative introduce innovation.
    • Engage a local problem-solver with some degree of responsibility, and involve them sufficiently
    • Form sound partnerships and collaborations, and be good partners and collaborators.
    • What kinds of partners are available and relevant? What level of partnership or collaboration is appropriate?
    • Set concrete goals and take small achievable steps. Be realistic about outputs and timelines.
    • Habit 7. Found your initiative on technology-neutral concepts so it can be adapted as needed to accommodate technology change over time.
    • Involve groups that are traditionally excluded
    • Make your initiative sustainable over the long term
    • Widely disseminate information on what you are doing and what you have learned
• 05 Jul 09
  

  Rob McCrae

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• 09 Jun 09
  

  Shane Stevens

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• 08 Jun 09
  

  J Watson

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  The 12 Habits of Highly Effective ICT-Enabled

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  Tami Brass

  12 Habits of Highly Effective ICT-Enabled Development Initiatives
  
  The 12 Habits of Highly Effective ICT-Enabled Development Initiatives are a set of best practice guidelines for project management, which aim to ensure the internal health of initiatives harnessing ICT for development. Like the Real Access criteria, the 12 Habits can be used proscriptively for planning, or retrospectively for evaluation.

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• 07 Jun 09
  

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  Fred Delventhal

  The 12 Habits of Highly Effective ICT-Enabled Development Initiatives are a set of best practice guidelines for project management, which aim to ensure the internal health of initiatives harnessing ICT for development. Like the Real Access criteria, the 12 Habits can be used proscriptively for planning, or retrospectively for evaluation.

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  John Evans

  12 Habits of Highly Effective ICT-Enabled Development Initiatives
  
  The 12 Habits of Highly Effective ICT-Enabled Development Initiatives are a set of best practice guidelines for project management, which aim to ensure the internal health of initiatives harnessing ICT for development. Like the Real Access criteria, the 12 Habits can be used proscriptively for planning, or retrospectively for evaluation.

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  Vicki Davis

  Excellent reading for IT Directors and Technology Integrators - I particularly like the part about doing your homework and the thorough needs assessment - this fits with excellent books like the Influencer that have researched positive change.

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• 15 Oct 08
  

  Marion Walton
  • The likelihood of living in poverty is far greater for groups who suffer discrimination, so the issue of social exclusion necessarily lies at the heart of much ICT-enabled development work. The infusion of ICT into a country or community paints the existing landscape of poverty, discrimination, and division onto the new canvas of technology use. Because ICT can reward those who know how to use it with increased income and cultural and political advantages, the resulting digital divide shows up in increasingly stark contrast. The trend is that privileged groups acquire and use technology more effectively, and because the technology benefits them in an exponential way, they become even more privileged. And it is a difficult circle: social exclusion leads to unequal participation in economic, political, educational, and digital arenas, and it follows that discrimination limits ICT uptake.

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  Marion Walton on 2008-10-17
  bridges.org. n.d. 12 Habits of Highly Effective ICT-Enabled Development Initiatives
  http://www.bridges.org/12_habits [October 12 2008]

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