Innovation of ict in Developing Countries



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Activities


Summary of activities

The World Bank Institute (WBI) is a global connector of knowledge, learning and innovation for poverty reduction. It is part of the World Bank Group. We connect practitioners, networks and institutions to help them find solutions to their development challenges.

Website full description

http://www.infodev.org/en/Article.211.html

http://go.worldbank.org/34Z4AL4B10



Documents

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 3332, June 2004

http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2004/07/29/000160016_20040729155005/Rendered/PDF/wps3332.pdf

Innovation Policy

for the Developing World Success Stories and Promising Approaches

http://siteresources.worldbank.org/WBI/Resources/213798-1278955272198/Innovation_Policy2.pdf

Interesting presentation from 2003



Guide for Developing Countries “Acting as a gardener”

http://wbi.worldbank.org/wbi/devoutreach/article/378/innovation-policy-developing-world

WSIS


Summary

Full name of (standards) body / group

World Summit on Information Society

General Director

Charles Geiger

Website

http://www.itu.int/wsis/index.html

Contact point




Activities

Summary of activities

The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) was a pair of United Nations-sponsored conferences about information, communication and, in broad terms, the information society that took place in 2003 in Geneva and in 2005 in Tunis. One of its chief aims was to bridge the so-called global digital divide separating rich countries from poor countries by spreading access to the Internet in the developing world. The conferences established 17 May as World Information Society Day.

Website full description

http://www.itu.int/wsis/basic/about.html

Documents


Facilitating India’s Knowledge Revolution Through Electronic Networks

http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict_stories/themes/case_studies/bee.html

 National Innovation Foundation

 Grassroots Innovaiton Augmentation Network

World Health Organization

Summary


Full name of (standards) body / group

World Health Organization

General Director

Dr Margaret Chan

Website

http://www.who.int/

Contact point

Director-General's Office Media enquiries

Tel; +41 22 791 2222


Activities


Summary of activities

The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) that acts as a coordinating authority on international public health. Established on 7 April 1948, with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, the agency inherited the mandate and resources of its predecessor, the Health Organization, which was an agency of the League of Nations.

Regarding innovation WHO has following related sites are;

  • Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property

  • Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation and Public Health (CIPIH)

  • Tropical Diseases, Special Programme for Research and Training (TDR)

  • UNDP/UNFPA/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP)

  • Genomic resource centre

  • Ethics and health

Website full description

http://www.who.int/topics/innovation/en/




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