“This article provides a review of the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development (UNCSTD) Working Group on ICTs and Development Report (Knowledge Societies: Information Technology for Sustainable Development, Oxford University Press, 1998). The author highlights key issues of ICTs in a development context; and summarizes the Report’s assessment of both potential and risks of ICTs for developing countries. A check-list derived from the Report provides guidelines for issues to consider in developing ICT policies and implementation strategies.”
ICT Innovation in Contemporary India: Three Emerging Narratives
The paper we present here discusses ICT innovation in India using a narrative framework. We argue that ICT innovation has not really been a subject matter sufficiently researched in information systems from the perspective of innovation in developing countries. We use a grounded theory inspired approach and we discovered three narratives of innovation in India; a) the supply narrative, b) the technology narrative and c) the collaborative narrative. We detect the evolution of these narratives and aim to continue further work to understand the factors involved in the emergence and shift of these narratives on a more granular level.
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How Innovations from Developing Nations Trickle-Up to the West
ICT in developing countries : A cross sectoral snapshot
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The goal of this paper is to highlight the cross-sectoral importance of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and give the big picture of ICT in developing countries. This is done by presenting a number of successful implementations of ICT applications. The examples are organized according to a simple framework consisting of three layers, which are ICT infrastructure, sector applications and use of applications. The cases throughout the paper shall serve as a basis for creative thought and innovation in ICT in developing countries
Drawing on infoDev's expertise in business incubation and technology entrepreneurship, this program seeks to create open spaces where mobile application developers can interact, work, and gain access to tools and expertise to assist in the creation of viable mobile application businesses. To access a lab, local programmers, web designers or mobile application developers can register as members, at no charge or for a nominal fee, depending on a particular lab’s business model. Each lab will provide an environment conducive to the development of solutions that have the potential to scale commercially, by providing state of the art equipment used to develop, test and scale software, technical training and workshops on business skills. Further, the labs will act as gateways to local, regional and international markets and will connect entrepreneurs with seed, venture and angel investors.
These labs, first established in Africa and then Eastern Europe and Asia, will provide a number of services including:
Training and accreditation for mobile applications developers;
