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Empowerment as Development: An Outline of an Analytical Concept for the Study of ICTs in the Global South
"It is a certainty that the proliferation of ICTs (mobile phones in particular) has opened up a range of possibilities and new avenues for individuals, aid agencies, and NGOs. However, overviews of communication supposedly for development reveal a field based on economic understandings of developmen
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Instrumentalising the Digital: Adolescents’ Engagement with ICTs in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Development in Practice, volume 28, issue 3 (2018), pp. 432-443
"In development agendas regarding children in low-income communities, both older and emerging media are typically ignored or assumed to have beneficial powers that will redress social and gender inequality. This article builds on a recent rapid evidence review on adolescents’ digital media use and
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Le numérique et le développement des Suds
Communication, Technologie et Développement, issue 5 (2018), pp. 8-145
Donor Organizations and the Principles for Digital Development: A Landscape Assessment and Gap Analysis
London: Jigsaw Consult (2018), 39 pp.
"This study engages with a comprehensive spectrum of stakeholders within the development and aid sectors around the role of digital, and the ideals that guide that role. The Principles for Digital Development, stewarded by Digital Impact Alliance, and the community of endorsers present a key forum f
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From Simple Fixes to Systemic Enablers: The Future of Digital Development
Brighton: Institute of Development Studies (IDS) (2018), 16 pp.
"Far too often the implicit theory of change in digital developments, as with technology for development more generally, is that importing technologies can fix development. This does not acknowledge the political and social transformations that are needed to address and overcome economic and power a
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The Digital Nonprofit Skills Assessment
NetHope (2018), 25 pp.
"This Digital Nonprofit Skills (“DNS”) Assessment is the second white paper in a series of benchmarks established by NetHope’s Center for the Digital Nonprofit that provide insight into the opportunities and challenges for transforming the nonprofit sector. The first white paper, the Digital N
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Entwicklungszusammenarbeit 4.0: Digitalisierung und globale Verantwortung
Baden-Baden: Nomos (2018), 172 pp.
"Die internationale Entwicklungszusammenarbeit kann die Digitalisierung in ihrer Vielfalt nutzen, um ihre Ziele besser und schneller zu erreichen. Mit der Digitalisierung sind aber auch Risiken im Bereich Datenschutz, Arbeitswelt oder Zugang zum Internet verbunden. Wer profitiert von der „digitale
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Reflecting the Past, Shaping the Future: Making AI Work for International Development
USAID (2018), 97 pp.
"This document aims to inform and empower those who may have limited technical experience as they navigate an emerging ML/AI landscape in developing countries. Donors, implementers, and other development partners should expect to come away with a basic grasp of common ML techniques and the problems
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Creating Mobile Health Solutions for Behaviour Change: A Study of Eight Services in the MNutrition Initiative Portfolio
London: GSMA; Altai Consulting (2018), 50 pp.
"The GSMA mHealth programme, under the mNutrition Initiative funded by UK aid (the UK Department for International Development, DFID), has been working with mobile network operators (MNOs) and other mobile and health sector stakeholders to support the launch and scale of mobile health (mHealth) valu
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Digital Innovation Made in Africa for Sustainable and Inclusive Development
Bonn; Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2018), 48 pp.
"Innovative Entrepreneurship is one of the key drivers behind Africa’s digital transformation. For many young people, entrepreneurship is often the best way to achieve sustainable livelihoods. Innovative entrepreneurs know their local markets and understand the social context. This gives them a co
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More Than Just Bitcoin: The Potential of Blockchain Technology, Using the Example of Latin America
KAS International Reports, issue 1 (2018), pp. 64-77
"Blockchain tehcnology (BT) can make a significant contribution to the future development of Latin America. It provides a robust alternative to weak state authorities in the fight for democratically legitimised laws and standards that have only been applied to a limited extent, or not at all. BT cou
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Hack the Future of Development Aid
Copenhagen: DANIDA (2017), 35 pp.
"This study opens by diving into what blockchain is and why it is a new tech tool for development. Thereafter, we explore four ways in which blockchain can be applied to hack the future of development aid and accelerate the Sustainable Development Goals. Hack #1: Innovate (aid) money with cryptocurr
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"In this report, we look at the state of digital data for development and emerging trends. We aim to support German development cooperation in integrating and prioritising data approaches and investments in their work. In this study we focus on four data categories: big data, open data, citizen-gene
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Digital Development and the Digital Gender Gap
Brighton: Institute of Development Studies (IDS) (2017), 11 pp.
"This rapid literature review collates findings from recently published papers on digital development and gender, highlighting some of the most commonly discussed discussions related to economic, social and political development. As the scope of this query is very large, this review provides an illu
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Open Data in Developing Economies: Toward Building an Evidence Base on What Works and How
Cape Twon: African Minds (2017), v, 275 pp.
"Recent years have witnessed considerable speculation about the potential of open data to bring about wide-scale transformation. The bulk of existing evidence about the impact of open data, however, focuses on high-income countries. Much less is known about open data’s role and value in low- and m
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The Potential of Social Media Intelligence to Improve People's Lives: Social Media Data for Good
Governance Lab (Govlab) (2017), 119 pp.
"In this report, developed with support from Facebook, we focus on an approach to extract public value from social media data that we believe holds the greatest potential: data collaboratives. Data collaboratives are an emerging form of public-private partnership in which actors from different secto
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Going to Scale with ICTs for Agriculture
Wageningen: Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) (2017), 31 pp.
ICT in Agriculture: Connecting Smallholders to Knowledge, Networks, and Institutions
Key Guides
Washington, DC: World Bank, updated ed. (2017), xxiii, 436 pp.
"This resource is designed to support practitioners, decision makers, and development partners who work at the intersection of ICT and agriculture. In this revised e-Sourcebook you will find updated modules on ICT in the work of producer organizations; in research, extension and innovation; and in v
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