This paper targets individuals and organizations engaged in providing ICT literacy education. It offers an analysis of ICT usage in Asia-Pacific countries and defines measures for promoting ICT literacy development in the region. The e-publication was released in 2008 by the UNESCO Office in Bangkok, Thailand.

Aimed at ICT/knowledge economy researchers, the paper presents a series of 'lenses' - i.e. analytical frameworks – through which to investigate ICT-based enterprises in developing countries. The frameworks move from basic classification models to those that can analyse competitive strategy, impact, context and the enterprise lifecycle. In each case, the paper provides an explanation of basic concepts, and a sense of what research using the particular framework would offer. A linked educators more...

The Cyber Security Trends in India are not very encouraging. To worsen the situation we have a weak Cyber Law in India. Cyber Security is witnessing many important phases and trends. From the perspective of mere “fun game” cyber crimes and contraventions have emerged as a “professional activity” and have been transformed into a “profession” itself. No country of the world is safe from various cyber crimes and contraventions and all are struggling hard to tackle them. But the fact rem more...

The Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka will highlight its commitment towards being active change agents in the developmental industry worldwide by supporting the Third Global Knowledge Conference (GK3), a GKP Event on the Future. Themed “Emerging People, Emerging Markets, Emerging Technologies”, GK3 will be held at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre from 11 to 13 December 2007.

GK3 will be a dynamic GKP Event focused on the Future. GK3 will explore concrete sol more...

Provides regulators with a practical guide to methods used to regulate telecommunications, focusing on best practices in licensing, interconnection, pricing and universal service obligations. (Also in Arabic and Spanish). The World Bank, undated.

Alison Gillwald (Director) and Christoph Stork (senior researcher) of the Research ICT Africa network (RIA!) have released a working paper entitled, "Towards an African ICT e-Index: Towards evidence based ICT policy in Africa". The creation of an African ICT research network was in response the growing demand for the information and analysis required for appropriate policy formulation and effective regulation. This paper traverses the work of RIA! and the network’s efforts to bridge the resear more...

This book was published to captures the global experience on Telecentre. The IDRC’s Telecentre.org has published the book. IDRC Just like the telecentre movement, creating this book was a collective endeavour. From the very start, the team invited others into the process, asking for ideas on the most interesting telecentre projects in the world. From there, they spoke with dozens of people in each country that we visited, all of them committed to the values of the telecentre movement. In the e more...

This background paper has been prepared by Shambhu Ghatak (shambhughatak@yahoo.com), and is based upon the review of existing literature. The paper has been prepared by taking into account the
existing work by economists and social scientists on the Indian IT industry. A part of the paper was presented in the MIMAP meet (sponsored by IDRC, Canada) that took place from 31 January-2 February, 2004 in India Habitat Centre, New Delhi (India). Production and usage of ICTs has brought about drastic c more...

A recent DIRSI study, Affordability of Mobile Phone Service in Latin America, undertaken by Roxana Barrantes, Hernán Galperin, Aileen Agüero and Andrea Molinari benchmarks mobile pricing from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru and Trinidad & Tobago. The study considers strategies employed by the poor to access and use mobile telephony services and identifies the major market and regulatory barriers to increased penetration and usage as well as business opportunities to s more...

From the Executive Summary: "His Majesty King Abdullah II has selected
the ICT sector as having the greatest potential for contributing positively to Jordan’s future success and growth. The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan has made headway in ICT with the liberalization of the telecommunications market and establishment of the independent Telecommunications Regulatory Commission. The current fixed line infrastructure in Jordan is very reliable and alternative infrastructural changes such as the es more...