The Latin America and the Caribbean Atlas of our Changing Environment shows environmental changes based on remotely sensed images acquired by different satellites over many years, or a few days in some cases, and through images, maps, tables, graphs and text, it presents a picture of where Latin America and the Caribbean has been, and where it is now.
The atlas can be read and consulted online, via chapters and maps. Tee atlas can be downloaded to Google Earth.
From the World Economic Forum's Centre for Global Competitiveness and Performance. It examines and evaluates the state of ICT infrastructure and development in countries around the world. It concludes among other that Africa is lagging in ICT.
On ICTs in rural Pakistan. A series of case studies that can be of interest and use to ICT implementators.
APAARI has undertaken documentation of success stories on ICT/ICM for AR4D in the Asia-Pacific region that provides better insights on the use and application of ICT/ICM for empowering the farming community. This publication includes success stories on ICT/ICM in agriculture from five countries, viz., Bangladesh, India, Nepal, the Philippines and Sri Lanka.
This paper reviews the experience of using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for rural development in Asia and draws lessons on the opportunities and limitations of using ICTs for putting new knowledge into use.
This 131 pages report analyses the nascent apps ecosystem in Africa while providing an analytical framework allowing African mobile operators or other stakeholders to decide on what strategy to adopt regarding mobile apps. It contains 15 illustrated boxes, 26 tables, 39 charts and 2 maps. It is divided into three distinctive parts: Part 1: The users, the device and the usage; Part 2: The developers and the content; Part 3: Distribution platforms and distribution strategies.
The South African Risk and Vulnerability Atlas - a new atlas of local risk and vulnerability in the context of global environmental change - will be further rolled out in 2011. The Atlas is aimed at equipping decision-makers with information on the impact and risk associated with global change in the region.
The Inveneo Solar Power Deployment Guide will show you how to specify, design and build your own small-scale self-contained solar power system. The guide takes a 'hands-on' approach, emphasizing a step-by-step method to designing and building truly practical solar systems.
This toolkit was prepared in the context of the EC-FAO Programme on “Linking Information and Decision Making to Improve Food Security”. This toolkit is geared towards helping food security professionals develop a communication strategy and communicate more effectively with their target audiences. Specific sections of the toolkit focus on policy makers and the media, because of the important role they play in implementing and influencing food security policies.The toolkit also looks at specific information products such as policy briefs, reports and early warning bulletins, and suggests ways to structure and improve them.
The Little Data Book on Information and Communication Technology 2011 charts the progress of the ICT 'revolution' for 213 countries around the world. It provides comparable statistics on the sector for 2000 and 2009 across a range of indicators, enabling readers to readily compare countries. This book includes indicators covering the economic and social context, the structure of the information and communication technology sector, sector efficiency and capacity, and sector performance related to access, usage, quality, affordability, trade, and applications. The Glossary contains definitions of the terms used in the tables.
The Information and Communication Technologies for Agriculture e-Sourcebook describes a wide variety of ICT innovations and discusses the potential they carry for stakeholders engaged in agricultural development.
The overarching challenge for agriculture in the international development community is to make the sector fulfill its potential as an engine for a certain kind of economic growth—poverty-reducing economic growth.
The e-Sourcebook therefore focuses on support to poor smallholder farmers and the intermediate institutions that serve them, and within this classification of producers, on female farmers in addition to women who are otherwise employed in rural nonfarm economies.
This book offers studies from nine African countries that explore how ICTs can transform service delivery, tax, financial management, land management, education, local economic development, citizen registration, and political inclusion. A synthesis of the findings and a roadmap for implementing and evaluating e-local governance projects mean that this book is not only relevant to researchers and students but is also a practical handbook for government decision makers. With ICTs increasingly available in Africa, this timely book speaks to the current issues.
A World Resources Report case study on the successes of Mali's agro-meteorological program. Evidence suggests the farmers who take part in the programme are able to use climate information to make better management decisions and harvest better yields.
The objective of One-to-One Laptop Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean document is to provide an overview of One-to-One implementations with a regional focus on Latin America and the Caribbean. It also proposes a systemic approach to improve the quality of education in contexts of mass laptop distributions to students and teachers.
This document by IDRC, the World Bank and others is a landscape analysis of ICT in agriculture in Africa. Latest projects are cited, data is compiled, models are shown, success stories from other continents are detailled, initiatives in African countries and from different agri-sector are also detailled. Published in May 2011.
This document presents the conclusions of the study “Leveraging ICT for the BoP”. The study aimed to learn from “what works” in terms of full projects (as opposed to technologies) combining both an economically viable model and socio-economic impacts on their end-users, in the field of ICT for development.
This article outlines the potential mechanisms through which ICT could facilitate agricultural adoption and the provision of extension services in developing countries. It then reviews existing programs using ICT for agriculture, categorized by the mechanism (voice, text, internet and mobile money transfers) and the type of services provided.
This is the first-ever comprehensive analysis of the ICTD literature across multiple sources over ten years, offering important insights about the trends and directions of research in the ICTD field.
This book questions how women in Africa use ICTs for empowerment. The chapters bring to light the strength and the resilience of the women who spoke with the authors, yet also the slim margin there is for true empowerment within the context in which they live: a context that is defined by pervasive power differentials that are rooted on the one hand in the inherently unequal world-economic monetary system and on the other hand in the inherently unequal gender images and norms that still plague Africa and the world.
This article investigates whether women in Mozambique's rural areas, who have access to ICTs through telecentres and the expanding mobile phone networks, are becoming more empowered.