ICTD InfoBank: A Knowledge Sharing Portal on ICTD for the Asia-Pacific region
The ICTD InfoBank has been designed and developed by APCICT as a place for online convergence of like-minded individuals and organizations working to strengthen capacities in the use of information and communications technology for development (ICTD) in the Asia-Pacific region. The ICTD InfoBank does not attempt to duplicate the work of other ICTD portals, it aims to provide easy access to relevant resources on ICTD. The resources available in the ICTD InfoBank aims to support trainers and educators in building ICTD capacity, and assist policy makers in making informed decisions.
Resources on the ICTD InfoBank include: publications, reports, journal, articles, working papers, training manuals, guidelines, case studies, video and audio files, and multimedia materials, as well as web portals with links to relevant resources, and blog sites. Users can browse these different types of resources by various topics (e.g. e-commerce, e-governance), by country, or by organization that have published these resources.
This paper constructs a multidimensional, integrated analytical framework to guide an investigation of how e-government systems can be structured to restore trust in citizen-government relationships.
Applying the analytical framework to the case of Singapore's Electronic Tax-Filing (E-Filing) system, the authors advance an e-government developmental model that yields both developmental prescriptions and technological specifications for the realization of these trust-building strategies.
The World Bank, in collaboration with the e-Agriculture community and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), is holding a series of two week online forums. These e-forums stem from the launch of the World Bank’s ICT in Agriculture e-Sourcebook (2011) and the growing demand for knowledge on how to use ICT to improve agricultural productivity and raise smallholder incomes. The following summary captures the discussion during one of these e-forums.
This paper presents findings from a exploratory study conducted with government officials, with the broad goal of understanding social media use by government officials as well as community organizations, businesses, and the public at large.
The webpage provides summaries and keypoints highlighted in the Rio+20 conference. It also provides the Rio+20 outcome document, which describes the role of ICT in regards to five key areas of actions towards the achievement of sustainable development.
The aim of this paper is to provide an overall view about the use of Web 2.0 and social media tools in EU local governments in order to determine whether local governments are using these technologies to increase transparency and e-participation, opening a real corporate dialog. In addition, the paper tries to identify which factors promote the level of development of these tools at local level.
This case study discusses the role of Nepal Wireless in achieving socio economic development of rural communities by facilitating affordable Internet access.
Today it is a proven fact that Natural Disasters can happen at any place irrespective of the developed, developing or the least developed status of a country. It can cause massive destruction to the lives and livelihoods of large population and hence, to the national economies. It is experienced that the least developed and developing countries are impacted more severely by large scale natural disasters.
This report was presented to the Working Party on the Information Economy (WPIE) in June 2009 and declassified by the Committee for Information, Computer and Communications Policy in October 2009. The report has been prepared by Verena Weber, consultant, in conjunction with the OECD Secretariat as part of the WPIE’s work on ICTs and the environment, under the overall direction of Graham Vickery, OECD Secretariat. It contributed to the OECD Conference on “ICTs, the environment and climate change”, Helsingør, Denmark, 27-28 May 2009, and is a contribution to the OECD work on Green Growth.
The Role of Information and Communication Technologies for Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change
Climate change is one of the most complex challenges that humankind has to face in the next decades. As the change process seems to be irreversible, it became urgent to develop sound adaptation processes to the current and future shifts in the climate system. In particular, it is likely that the biggest impacts of change will be on agricultural and food systems over the next few decades (M. E. Brown, C. C. Funk, 2008).