Features ICT4D Project Directory Advanced Search Call for Papers - Open Development: Technological, organizational and social innovations transforming the developing world This is a call for papers for an edited volume on Open Development through the application of ICTs. 400-500 word abstract submissions due July 20, 2009. Harvard Forum II: A Dialogue on ICTs, Human Development, Growth and Poverty Reduction This forum (Sept. 23-24, 2009 at Harvard University) brings together leading thinkers and practionners to discuss the role of ICTs in poverty reduction in developing countries. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION IDRC books on line and in print

From its creation in 1970, the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) has been committed to advancing the role of information in development. A tradition of innovation that began with an emphasis on building databases and information systems has evolved into a focus on the transformative nature of information and communications technologies (ICTs).

IDRC was one of the first development agencies to embrace ICTs as a key means to foster development and alleviate poverty.

• Acacia Initiative
  Communities and the Information Society in Africa Program Initiative increases the capacity of African communities to apply Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to their own social and economic development.

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• Connectivity Africa
  Connectivity Africa program has been closed as of February 2008. 

• ICT4D in the Americas
  

• ICT4D in Middle East Project
  A new corporte project by IDRC that covers five countries in Middle East: Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Syria and Yemen.

• Pan Asia Networking
  Studying the impacts of ICTs on people, culture, the economy, and society in order to strengthen ICT uses that promote sustainable development.

• telecentre.org
  An initiative aimed at helping community telecentres around the world increase their capacity and promote digital development.

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