In the run-up to the Tunis World Summit on the Information
Society, Development Informatics Group at the University of
Manchester has released a series of "eDevelopment
Briefings":
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/idpm/dig/briefings.htm
These are very short (one-two page) overviews of current
evidence and thinking on key issues related to ICTs and socio-
economic development.
The ten briefings cover the following issues:
- Questioning the role of free/open source software
- Reframing the role of telecentres in development
- Three foundational models for understanding ICTs and
development: the information chain, the "onion-ring", and the
pull-push model
- The skew to e-development caused by domination of a
communication/rights agenda
- Problems arising from overestimation of the global digital
divide
- Offshoring to Africa as a new project for development
- Social IT outsourcing: a new angle on outsourcing that
benefits poor and marginalised groups
- Understanding the what, why and how of making ICT
projects sustainable
Richard Heeks
Development Informatics Group
IDPM, University of Manchester, UK
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