ICT Policies & Studies

Local knowledge is threatened by Western-dominated digital technologies that operate blind to national boundaries and local contexts. Do you agree or disagree?

Ingenuity is not limited to westerners and the capacity to adapt digital technologies to local purposes should not be under-stated in this discussion

Many times in developing countries, the technologies are being instituted ahead of the needs of the intended users's; needs have been identified

an example is in the health sector. Western contents are always evidence-based clinical and emprically tested. Local contents are more culturally- and tacit-knowledge-based. syed t s hassan, Malaysia.


Editorial note: The comments below relate to the poll: "In order to increase the scale and utility of ICTs (from mobile phones to the internet) in support of poverty reduction processes, who should lead the investment required?" The comments above relate to the current poll.

am so glad this kinds of initiatives are in place to boost our level of interactivity with our community. ahmad sabir. nigeria.

From The CI: The below comments are related to an archived poll which asked: "Which of the following technologies has the most potential for accelerating progress to reduce poverty?" The above comments are related to our most current ICT4D Poll.

low energy consuming devices... - low power consuming shared desktops computers, etc...

The film and video have the potentials to reach the both the urban and rural communities.

satellite communication

radio is the most accessible source of communication to most underprivilleged communities. hence, with well tailored programmes on radio the broadcast can reach many

Radio is the most powerful medium to address poverty issues. Radio is now available in almost all homesteads (in Africa for example).If properly used, radio can effectively empower the ordinary people to question governments in regard to good governance, transperency acountability and the fight against corruption.

ICT4D: Stronger Telecentres •Enhanced interaction and exchange of experiences between Telecentres the participation. •To promote the exchange of experiences between staff in the field of information technology. •Communications amongst countries of basic steps to be worked for the promotion and development. •Promotion of a common unified communication channel interactive exchange through which members of the participants their experience with others in variety fields, especially social and economic, with a focus on factors Advancement and Support of the communities and remote rural areas, which is sometimes difficult to access. •The goal through ICTs and education ,learning to achieve ultimate goal by bridging the digital divide between the urban and rural in our countries and reduce the digital divide between men and women through information technology. •To expanding horizons and scope of youth which use technologies and computer technology to reach vital point "Information for all". •The exchange of experiences through the gate of the joint unified platform for the participants via members providing their experiences and their success and failure in some cases. •That our site is the only forum that brings and included all participants in the Community Development Support Plan, which reflected on the future of society and its members have achieved this through the last event in Kuala Lumpur "TLF" Telecentre Leader Forum. In order to do such steps should be initiatives in place and ready to cooperate in creating resources and solidarity to cross into the gate of information technology, communications and networking. We invite all participants to exchange local national experiences, in addition international, organizations NGOs, governmental, and civil society organizations, private sector and SMEs. To summarize interrelate ideas and goals and objectives and to live amongst technically countries lead at the global level. We will sum up the most important items participations through exchange of experiences: •Discussion group goals and objectives that achieve community development through the exchange of experiences amongst colleagues. •Promote access points amongst participants on the information useful, and available resources, articles, publications and information communications technology. •Provide advice and guidance on all issues relating to information technology and serving the community. •Found experiences and successful models in some countries in order to benefit from the repetition of such models or create better successful models. Finally, our societies can grow and prosper through join hands and unify the ideas, strategy of action, transparent to serve everyone for a bright future. Thank you. Nabil Eid ICT4D-Syria Salamieh Telecentre

interpersonal discussion particularly if well facilitated allow for immediate feedback and clarifications to arrive at mutual understanding of what poverty is and how it can be reduced. it allows participants in the discussion to localise development and deal with poverty as they define and percieve it. it also allows for both individual and collective action planning and implementation. interpersonal discussions can also be the ground on which to plan for other communication strategies which can make use of other ICTs.eg through interpersonal discussions, video or radio programmes for poverty reduction can be produced for a much large community

internet provides large amount of information. internet users can choose which kind of information they want to acquire, and it can be interactive and connect people from anywhere in the world. whereas, with other media while they get information they are only on the receivng ends.

Vive le vini (cell)! It seems a vast majority of people believe cellphones hold the most promise for accelerating progress to reduce poverty. A modest goal - for today or tomorrow? So, one day, I am in a state of desperation and, like the example given in Drum Beat just now, I ring a man in Paris. He does not speak English and I do not French. But my cellphone speaks both. He knows, and I know, because our cellphone options tell us so, that our conversation is also "live" as well as bilingual - broadcasting automatically to the internet via podcast, RSS, SMS alert and, of course, good old email. Bienvenue dans le futur! jason brown editor avaiki news agency