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The ICT4D Collective was initiated in 2004 and is a group of people committed to undertaking the highest possible quality of research in the field of ICT4D, and making the results of this available freely to the global community. We do this primarily in the interests of poor people and marginalised communities, wherever they may be found.
Boom in international trade fails workers in developing world – UN report
The surge in world trade in recent years has failed to improve the working conditions and living standards for the majority of workers in poor countries, according to a new United Nations labour agency study
Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative ~ research to reduce multidimensional poverty and advance welfare economics, building on the capability approach of Amartya Sen
Applying Multidimensional Poverty Measures to Countries and Regions:
Practical Resources and Examples of the Alkire Foster 2007 Methodology.
World Investment Report 2009 « Docuticker
How have foreign direct investment (FDI) flows reacted to the current financial and economic crisis? How do traditional and new foreign investors – transnational corporations (TNCs) – affect agriculture, the basis of livelihood in many developing countries? These are two major issues analysed in detail in World Investment Report 2009 (WIR09), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development´s 19th annual report on FDI and TNCs.
WDR 2010
World Development Report 2010
World Learning
World Learning is a 75-year-old global non-profit organization operating international education and development programs in more than 70 countries worldwide
Global Alliance for ICT and Development (GAID)
The UN GAID (Global Alliance for ICT and Development) has been established in 2006 to address globally cross-cutting issues related to ICT in development and respond to the need for cross-cultural and cross-sectoral dialogue among diverse stakeholders. Some of these issues and challenges are: Lowering cost of access in the developing world; developing inclusive technologies for the disabled; producing low-cost computers; and reducing barriers to ICT use and diffusion in key sectors of the economy and society, including enterprises, governments, education, tourism, agriculture, financial services and rural and civil society institutions.
telecentre.org
Telecentres and other community technology efforts are helping people around the world join the knowledge society, on their own terms. They provide the essential foundational infrastructure upon which concrete ICT applications in health care, local economic development, livelihood, rural e-commerce, education and e-governance can reach the people who need them most.
knowledge management for development
Knowledge Management for Development (KM4Dev) is a community of international development practitioners who are interested in knowledge management and knowledge sharing issues and approaches.
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