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“The latest edition of Measuring the Information Society features the new ITU (International Telecommunication Union) ICT Development Index (IDI) and the ICT Price Basket – two benchmarking tools to measure the Information Society. The IDI captures the level of advancement of ICTs in 159 countries worldwide and compares progress made between 2002 and 2008. It also measures the global digital divide and examines how it has developed in recent years. The report also features the latest ICT Price Basket, which combines 2009 fixed telephone, mobile cellular and fixed broadband tariffs for 161 economies into one measure and compares these across countries, and over time. The analytical report is complemented by a series of statistical tables providing country-level data for all indicators included in the Index.”

The report can be downloaded from the ITU site, here: http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/publications/idi/2010/index.html

“The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries (EJISDC) strives to become the foremost international forum for practitioners, teachers, researchers and policy makers to share their knowledge and experience in the design, development, implementation, management and evaluation of information systems and technologies in developing countries. [...] EJISDC focuses on the digital divide. Our aim is to situate contemporary trends in ICTs within a fully global context. Outside of North America, Western Europe, Australasia and Japan, diverse societies are making sense of technological advances in ways unique to their cultures and histories. ICT investments can and do contribute to improved quality of life, even where priorities for investments in information systems compete with the provision of the basic necessities of life such as decent housing, clean water and primary healthcare. ICT investments are able to leverage the values of third-world assets in much the same way as they do in the first world, sometimes to a far greater extent because of the lower starting point and lower costs.
In the five years since EJISDC went live, it has published over 120 articles from countries as far dispersed as China, Tanzania, the Solomon Islands, Brazil and Nepal.[...]”

This is an online journal. Access to all publications is free of charge: http://www.ejisdc.org

GlobalGiving connects you to the causes and countries you care about. You select projects you want to support, make a tax-deductible contribution, and get regular progress updates – so you can see how your gift is making a difference.

GlobalGiving Mission: “Build an efficient, open, thriving marketplace that connects people who have community and world-changing ideas with people who can support them.”

http://www.globalgiving.org

Slideshare is launching “ZipCasts” which let you make a public presentation on the web using any slide presentation uploaded in slideshare. .Extremely simple: you click on “ZipCast” in Slideshare and you can share presentations in real time. The speaker controls the slides, and can be seen live through his webcam. No download needed. It’s free, but there is a paid version to give you more features and to get rid of ads. Works completely in browser.

Here is a full press coverage of the launch of Zipcast.

What tools can help you collect donations via credit card through your existing website?  In this adaptation and update of our 2005 report, we look at the considerations and the options for taking online donations (May 2010)

Sugata Mitra shows how kids teach themselves.

20 min video presentation

See also

Minimally invasive education in Wikipedia

http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/

Failure is an important part of learning, most educators would agree, yet few of us do more than rush to put our failures behind us. Admitting Failure is a new site that aims to help charities around the globe share, reflect upon and learn from the mistakes they’ve made.

Launched last month by Engineers Without Borders Canada, Toronto-based Admitting Failure is intended to be “a collaboration between like-minded NGOs, governments, donors and those in the private sector,” in the site’s own words. Those involved with charitable development groups can visit the site to submit their own stories of plans gone wrong, or they can browse through the stories submitted by others, rating and commenting upon them along the way. Either way, lessons are bound to be learned, the site believes, causing fewer mistakes to be repeated in the future.

Transparency has already shaken up industries far and wide, so it’s not entirely surprising to see it applied in a deliberate way to the nonprofit sector as well, with the potential to benefit everyone involved.

via springwise

The World Summit on Information Society (WSIS), held in Geneva (2003) and in Tunis (2005)  to discuss ICT4D issues, identified 10 targets to be achieved by 2015. This important report by ITU (International Telecommunications Union), review the status of the 10 targets, at midterm (2010)

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Slides dall’intervento di R.Polillo  al corso “Salute Globale e Sviluppo“, organizzato dall’Università di Milano Bicocca, gennaio-febbraio 2011.

Internet e ICT for Development.