The Development Dimension ICTs for Development : Improving Policy Coherence.

✍ Scribed by OECD

• Publisher: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 207
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Information communication technologies (ICTs) are crucial to reducing poverty, improving access to health and education services and creating new sources of income and employment for the poor. Being able to access and use ICTs has become a major factor in driving competitiveness, economic growth and social development. In the last decade, ICTs, particularly mobile phones, have also opened up new channels for the free flow of ideas and opinions, thereby promoting democracy and human rights. . The OECD and infoDev joined forces at a workshop on 10-11 September 2009 to examine some of the main ch.  Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Foreword
Table of Contents
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Executive Summary
Why ICTS Matter for Development
Where Next for ICTs and International Development?
How the Developing World may Participate in the Global Internet Economy: Innovation Driven by Competition
What Role Should Governments Play in Broadband Development?
Regulatory Issues around Mobile Banking
ICTs and the Environment in Developing Countries: Opportunities and Developments
Policy Coherence in ICTs for Education: Examples from South Asia.

✦ Subjects

Internet -- Economic aspects;Internet -- Government policy