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Digital Ecosystem Country Assessment (DECA): Honduras
USAID, Digital Frontiers Project (2023), 116 pp.
"The Honduras Digital Ecosystem Country Assessment (DECA) report presents the findings and recommendations of the Honduras DECA. It outlines the key aspects of Honduras' digital ecosystem and provides 9 recommendations for creating a more inclusive, safe, and enabling environment. Guided by USAID/Ho
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Information For All Programme (IFAP): Strategic Plan 2023-2029
Paris: UNESCO (2023), 25 pp.
"IFAP will adopt a strong orientation in its work towards accelerating progress towards the
Sustainable Development Goals and implement its initiatives in line with the WSIS
process, which put universal access to information at the heart of inclusive, equitable and
sustainable knowledge societies. I
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Does Internet development affect urban-rural income gap in China? An empirical investigation at provincial level
Information Development, volume 39, issue 1 (2023), pp. 107-122
"This study aims to examine the impact of Internet development on the urban-rural income gap in China. By using a provincial level panel dataset comprising 31 of China’s provinces, it analyzes and compares the effects of the eastern, central, and western regions over the period of 2005–2016. The
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Informing an Uncertain Future II: Localizing Strategic Alignment with a conceptual analysis of 75 interviews with social impact leaders from East Africa
NetHope (2023), 24 pp.
"This whitepaper establishes that there is misalignment on the implementation of digital enabling strategies between global headquarters and the local humanitarian and development programs of East Africa. As headquarters of international NGOs – mostly based in the global north – participate in a
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Digital Ecosystem Country Assessment (DECA): Tanzania
USAID, Digital Frontiers Project (2023), 123 pp.
"The Tanzania DECA report presents the findings and recommendations of the Tanzania DECA. It outlines the key aspects of Tanzania’s digital ecosystem and provides 13 recommendations for creating a more inclusive, safe, and enabling environment. Guided by USAID/Tanzania priorities: i) foundational
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Hold the Phone! A Cross-National Analysis of Women's Education, Mobile Phones, and HIV Infections in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, 1990–2018
Social Science & Medicine, issue 334 (2023), pp. 116217 ff.
"Despite remarkable progress in the fight against HIV, the number of new infections remains unacceptably high, epidemics continue to grow in certain communities, and therefore AIDS continues to be one of the deadliest pandemics of our times. This study analyzes the rate of new HIV infections over al
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Digital Initiatives for Indigenous Languages
Deep Insights
Key Guides
Paris: UNESCO; Global Voices (2023), 193 pp.
"This toolkit has been co-designed in close partnership with both established and emerging networks of Indigenous digital practitioners, language advocates, and collaborators, within the framework of the International Decade of Indigenous Languages 2022-2032. The toolkit promotes the foundation of l
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IoT for Development: Use Cases Delivering Impact
London: GSMA (2023), 66 pp.
Digital Ecosystem Country Assessment (DECA): Bangladesh
USAID, Digital Frontiers Project (2023), 116 pp.
"The Bangladesh Digital Ecosystem Country Assessment (DECA) report presents the findings and recommendations of the Bangladesh DECA. It outlines the key aspects of Bangladesh's digital ecosystem and provides 10 recommendations for creating a more inclusive, safe, and enabling environment. Guided by
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Numérique et développement en Afrique: Les nouvelles technologies entre promesses et réalités du terrain
Paris: L'Harmattan (2023), 252 pp.
"Les technologies numériques d'information et de communication (TNIC) ont connu ces trois dernières décennies une croissance sans précédent, tant dans les pays développés que dans les pays en développement (PED). Les avancées technologiques ont émergé comme des symboles de modernité et d
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Improving Farmer Livelihoods Through Digitised Agricultural Value Chains: Results and Lessons from the GSMA Innovation Fund
London: GSMA (2023), 143 pp.
"Digital agriculture services supported by the GSMA Innovation Fund were scaled across 17 value chains and profiled more than 1.4 million farmers combined. Most of the farmers profiled are male (70.3%), smallholder farmers cultivating on less than two hectares of land (79.3%) and over 40 years of ag
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Digital Development, Inequalities & the Sustainable Development Goals: What Does ‘Leave No-One Behind’ Mean for ICT4D?
Information Technology for Development, volume 29, issue 1 (2023), pp. 9-26
"The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) place great emphasis on inequalities and pledge to leave no-one behind. For the field of digital development, this objective presents a particular challenge. While digital technologies can be utilized to reduce certain inequalities, they ar
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SDG Digital Acceleration Agenda
Key Guides
"This Agenda explores how digital technologies are already being used to accelerate progress toward the SDGs, and how inclusive digital transformation can be scaled further. The Agenda also showcases 34 digital solutions, two for each SDG, highlighting the power and potential of digital. The solutio
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Digital Ecosystem Country Assessment (DECA): El Salvador
USAID, Digital Frontiers Project (2023), 90 pp.
"The El Salvador Digital Ecosystem Country Assessment (DECA) report presents the findings and recommendations of the El Salvador DECA. It outlines the key aspects of El Salvador’s digital ecosystem and provides 10 recommendations for creating a more inclusive, safe, and enabling environment. Guide
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The Mobile Economy Pacific Islands 2023
London: GSMA (2023), 44 pp.
"Mobile technologies underpin digital transformation in the Pacific Islands as authorities take steps to help economies recover from the Covid-19 pandemic and manage threats from climate change and natural disasters. Mobile is the first (in most cases only) form of internet connectivity for many con
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Mapping Participation in ICT4D: A Meta-Analytic Review of Development Communication Research
International Communication Gazette, volume 85, issue 2 (2023), pp. 141-163
"We conducted a meta-analytic study of recent (2009 to 2020) information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) research in the field of development communication. Our aim was to explore the conceptualization of participation in the context of ICTs and globalization in contemporary s
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