Features ICT4D Project Directory Advanced Search Can Technology Help Reduce Poverty in Developing Countries? Nobel laureates Amartya Sen and Michael Spence are among the top development practitioners who will examine how technology can have an impact on human development and poverty at the IDRC-funded Harvard Forum II, September 23-24. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION IDRC books online and in print Open Development: Technological, organizational and social innovations transforming the developing world Results are in for the call for papers for an edited volume on Open Development through the application of ICTs. Telecentres Spur Policy Change in Mozambique Nationwide access to these technologies is one of the three pillars of the government’s science and technology policy.

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 corporate project that covers five countries in the Middle East: Lebanon, Jordan,  Syria, West Bank and Gaza, 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.

African Universities Need Affordable and Reliable Broadband 2009-10
Most universities in Africa pay about 100 times as much for the Internet as do those in Canada. IDRC is working to help solve this problem.

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