This dissertation focuses on understanding how families communicate over distance when using technology in Kenya, and how we should think about designing technology to support family communication over distance between rural and urban settings of the country. It is divided in two parts with first part exploring family communication practices […]
2015 • communication • digital divide • families • Kenya • rural • TumaPicha • urbanLanguage documentation and division: Bridging the digital divide
Contemporary language documentation workflow is a largely digital process. While this has had many benefits for how linguists undertake language documentation projects, it has also lead to a disparity between how the process is conceptualised by academic researchers, and how it is conceptualised by the speakers of endangered languages. In […]
2015 • Aikuma • digital divide • documenting • language | preservation • Nepal • smart phoneMaking the Connection: Essays on Indigenous Digital Excellence
We all understand the power of being connected in the digital world, being on-line, with everything at our finger-tips. But what will it take to make the most of this opportunity when it comes to Indigenous Australia? This unique set of essays commissioned by the Telstra Foundation, shows how Aboriginal […]
2014 • aboriginal • Australia • digital divide • digital inclusion • Torres Strait IslanderHuman Rights and Access to Information and Communication Technologies
The world is going through a profound change where advances in Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) have tied nation states into an increasingly complex web of development, thus prompting the extreme importance of access to ICTs. Article 27 of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights (UDHR) provides that ‘everyone has […]
2013 • development • digital divide • human rights • ICTsChallenges Faced in Overcoming Indigenous Digital Divide in Brazil
This paper’s objective is to identify the level of digital inclusion made possible by Brazilian digital divide program Electronic Government – Citizen Attention Service (Governo Eletrônico – Serviço de Atendimento ao Cidadão – Gesac) on indigenous lands. We are guided by Brazilian sociologist Bernardo Sorj’s five level digital inclusion system: […]
2013 • Brazil • digital divide • GESAC • indigenous • internetICT World Today
ICT World Today is a journal on Information and Communication Technology for Development developed by the Korea Information Society Development Institute with support from APCICT. Note: seems to have been in production for only two years (2009-2010). Aims & Scope To contribute to developing the overall economies, enhancing the quality […]
2009 • 2010 • APCICT • digital divide • ICT4D • ICTs • researchICTs and Sustainable Solutions for the Digital Divide: Theory and Perspectives
Chapter Abstracts Delineating the meaning and value of Development Informatics Graeme Johanson This chapter describes the field of Development Informatics as it has emerged in the past two decades, and highlights some of the strengths of its research and practices. It draws on the current literature and the expertise of […]
2011 • community informatics • digital divide • digital inclusion • ICT4D • impact of | ICTs • participatory • sustainabilityThe Digital Divide Dilemma: Preserving Native American Culture While Increasing Access
Introduction “[I]nformation is power. The development of a Navajo Nation information infrastructure is a historic event that holds many possibilities.” A comparison of the access to technology on Native American reservations with urban American settings reveals a great divide. For example, only 39% of Native Americans living in rural areas […]
2004 • culture | preservation • digital divide • ICTs • Native American • reservation • ruralCommunity memory and ICT in a developing economy
Abstract The implementation of ICT in Africa pales in comparison with developed economies. Data of the use of landline phones, cellular phones and internet connectivity indicates that the most equipped African countries, of which there are only a handful, are worse off than the poorly connected countries in developed regions […]
2006 • Africa • community informatics • community memory • development • digital divide • poverty reduction • telecenter • telecommunicationsMobile Web for Social Development (MW4D)
The MW4D Interest Group explores how to use the potential of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on Mobile phones as a solution to bridge the Digital Divide and provide minimal services (health, education, governance, business, …) to rural communities and under-privileged populations of Developing Countries.
development • digital divide • ICTs • internet • mobile • social changeCARICOM ICT4D
Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) is an emerging field in the development agendas especially within the developing countries. It refers to the application of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) as the key for social and economic development. As a result, literacy levels and skills in learning can be […]
Caribbean • development • digital divide • ICT4DThe Journal of Community Informatics
Focus and Scope Community Informatics (CI) is the study and the practice of enabling communities with Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs). CI seeks to work with communities towards the effective use of ICTs to improve their processes, achieve their objectives, overcome the “digital divides” that exist both within and between […]
community informatics • development • digital divide • empower • ICTsDigital Empowerment Foundation (DEF)
Digital Empowerment Foundation, a Delhi based not-for-profit organization was registered on December 2002, under the “Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860″ to find solutions to bridge the digital divide. With no political affiliations, it was founded by Osama Manzar to uplift the downtrodden and to create economic and commercial viability […]
digital divide • empower • ICTs • India • poverty reductionICT4D.at
Vision: In 2028 the digital divide is minimized. Lesser developed countries (LDCs) will be interconnected with the developed world using state of the art information- and communication-technologies (ICTs). People living in LDCs will have the ability to access world wide available information and knowledge at reconcilable costs. Subsequently the social […]
development • digital divide • ICT4D • ICTs • open sourceRethinking the Indigenous Communications Program: developed by Broadband for the Bush Alliance
From the Executive Summary… Indigenous Communications Over the years, governments have put in place a range of initiatives aimed at improving communications in remote Indigenous communities. However, high levels of digital inequality still exist in many communities around Australia. Indigenous Remote Media Association (IRCA) highlights this point, saying ‘most remote […]
Australia • broadband • communication • digital divide • ICTs • indigenous communities • IRCA • ruralTHINK! The Innovation Knowledge Foundation
THINK! (The Innovation Knowledge Foundation) is an international no-profit research institute – a think tank – whose aim is to collect, process, share and circulate information concerning the ways in which ICT and digital technologies can enable innovation processes, economic growth and human development in mature, emerging and less developed […]
development • digital divide • ICT4D • ICTs • innovation • knowledge sharing / exchange • researchIndigenous Commission for Communications Technologies in the Americas (ICCTA)
ICCTA’S Mission To promote the appropriate use and development of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to strengthen the recovery of the roots of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas and their legal, political, social, educational, cultural, spiritual and economic well-being. Slideshow about the ICCTA ICCTA Strategic Plan The objective of […]
appropriate technology • digital divide • ICT4D • ICTs • indigenous communitiesICT4D Bibliography at ICTlogy.net
This is a gathering of literature on subjects related to the impact of Information and Communication Technologies in the society, especially in development curated by Ismael Peña-López. Thus, you’ll find readings about the Information Society, the Digital Divide, e-Readiness or Digital Literacy, as core themes, and the Digital Economy, e-Learning, […]
digital divide • education • gender • human rights • ICT4D • information society • infrastructure • intellectual property • knowledge management • open access • participatory • policy • social mediaBridging the Digital Divide in Uganda
For more information visit the IDRC website.
2007 • digital divide • ICTs • IDRC • telecenter • UgandaOur Side of the Divide: African Perspectives on Information and Communication Technologies
Introduction This booklet is part of a broad strategy called ‘Speaking for Ourselves’. It recognises, that while the African perspective on the digital divide is underrepresented in the context of the World Summit on the Information Society, the people most directly affected by the digital divide have the best ideas, […]
2003 • Africa • development • digital divide • impact of | ICTs • information society • WSISCulturally Situated Design Tools
While solutions to the “digital divide” are often imagined as a one-way bridge, there are a variety of ways in which we can create a two-way bridge alternative. Culturally Situated Design Tools (CSDTs) use information technology to “translate” from local knowledge and low-tech practice, to high-tech domains such as math, […]
CSDT • culture • design • digital divide • education • ethnomathematics • mathematics • research • situated • youthAfrican Fractals, Virtual Bead Looms, and other Culturally Situated Design Tools
Culturally Situated Design Tools While solutions to the “digital divide” are often imagined as a one-way bridge, there are a variety of ways in which we can create a two-way bridge alternative. Culturally Situated Design Tools (CSDTs) use information technology to “translate” from local knowledge and low-tech practice, to high-tech […]
design • digital divide • ethnomathematics • mathematics • researchICTs and New Indigenous Mobilities? Insights from Remote Northern Territory Communities
Published in the Journal of Rural and Community Development, Vol. 7, No. 1 (2012) Abstract Like most of the jurisdictions highlighted in this edition, the Northern Territory of Australia has a large Indigenous population who live in small communities isolated from major service centres and urban areas. A digital divide […]
2012 • Australia • digital divide • ICTs • impact of | ICTs • indigenous communities • mobile • ruralOther side of the divide: Latin-American and Caribbean Perspectives on the WSIS
Introduction The process generated around the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) is an opportunity to present to the world the contributions that from Latin America and the Caribbean have been made in this respect. Diverse actors of this region of the planet have worked and work today in […]
2003 • Caribbean • development • digital divide • impact of | ICTs • information society • knowledge tradition • Latin America • poverty reduction • WSISThe Potential of the Internet for Development: Digital Divides and Uneven Geographies of Knowledge
A talk to DFID by Dr. Mark Graham of the Oxford Internet Institute The Internet and other new technologies have put information at the centre of the global economy. It is therefore important to understand who produces and reproduces this information, who has access, and who and where are represented […]
2012 • development • digital divide • Internet use • Oxford Internet Institute • traditional culture