[governance] ICT4D resources

[jlfullsack]

Dear all

McTim wrote :
<Yet we have very little sense of the effect of that investment.  Put 
simply, there is far too little impact assessment of ICT4D projects. In part 
that reflects a lack of political will and motivation.  But in part it also 
reflects a lack of knowledge about how to undertake impact assessment of 
ICT4D.>

In my humble opinion this also reflects that a significant part of these 
ICT4D projects are designed and carried out without sufficient dialogue with 
the people and their representative orgs. Only a true exchange with them 
upon their needs and their views on how they could evolve on one hand, and 
the the possibilities of suitable and adequately dimensioned technologies on 
the other hand, can fulfil the conditions for a people centered and 
therefore useful development. Remember : ICT isn't THE goal : it is only A 
tool !

Best regards

Jean-Louis Fullsack





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "McTim" <dogwallah at gmail.com>
To: <governance at lists.cpsr.org>; "David Goldstein" 
<goldstein_david at yahoo.com.au>
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 5:40 PM
Subject: Re: [governance] ICT4D resources



Hi,

You might find this useful in some way:

Impact Assessment of ICT-for-Development Projects: A Compendium of 
Approaches
http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/idpm/research/publications/wp/di/di_wp36.htm
Richard Heeks & Alemayehu Molla

Abstract

Billions of US dollars are invested each year by the public, NGO and
private sectors in
information-and-communication-technologies-for-development (ICT4D)
projects such as telecentres, village phone schemes, e-health and
e-education projects, e-government kiosks, etc.

Yet we have very little sense of the effect of that investment.  Put
simply, there is far too little impact assessment of ICT4D projects.

In part that reflects a lack of political will and motivation.  But in
part it also reflects a lack of knowledge about how to undertake
impact assessment of ICT4D.

This Compendium aims to address that lack of knowledge.  It presents a
set of frameworks that can be used by ICT4D practitioners,
policy-makers and consultants to understand the impact of informatics
initiatives in developing countries.

The Compendium is arranged into three parts:

    * Overview – explains the basis for understanding impact
assessment of ICT4D projects, and the different assessment frameworks
that can be used.
    * Frameworks – summarises a series of impact assessment
frameworks, each one drawing from a different perspective.
    * Bibliography – a tabular summary of real-world examples of ICT4D
impact assessment.

On 6/3/09, David Goldstein <goldstein_david at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
>  Hi all,
>
>  A client of mine is interested in me compiling a newsletter or some 
> similar resource on ICT4D issues, focussing on Asia, and looking at 
> health, rural and agriculture issues, education, political issues and 
> socio-economic issues.
>
>  Does anyone have any resources they could recommend to me for ideas and 
> information?
>
>  Assuming it gets off the ground I could even be interested in 
> contributions from people interested in submitting articles.
>
>  Feel free to reply directly to me or to the list. And if you have any 
> questions, please let me know.
>
>  Cheers
>  David
>


-- 
Cheers,

McTim
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route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
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