This compendium is a guide to how to choose and how to apply information and communication technology for development (ICT4D) impact assessment methods. It consists of three parts:

1. Overview: explains the basis for understanding impact assessment of ICT4D projects (including the ICT4D value chain), and the different assessment frameworks that can be used.
2. Frameworks: summarises a series of impact assessment frameworks, each one drawing from a different perspective.
3. Bibliography: a tabular summary of real-world examples of ICT4D impact assessment.

The Canadian International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the sponsor for the compendium, is providing access on a creative commons basis, enabling the work to be freely shared and adapted. Also available is an educator's guide to student questions for the compendium. The compendium was a feed-in to the joint IDRC/Gates Foundation Institute of Public and International Affairs (IPAI) project - a five-year project on impact assessment of public access to ICT. It is a "Working Paper", part of the Development Informatics series of the Institute for Development Policy and Management of the University of Manchester, United Kingdom.

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Press release from Richard Heeks on December 3 2008.