Posts on the topic "MDGs"
30/01/2012
ITU, UNESCO, UNCTAD and UNDP welcome all WSIS Stakeholders to the WSIS Forum 2012.
The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum 2012 will be held from 14th to 18th May 2012 and will provide structured opportunities to network, learn and to...
19/01/2012
"Technologies for Sustainable Development: A Way to Reduce Poverty?"
The 2012 Tech4Dev International Conference will look at how science and technologies can support both sustainable development and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in...
11/01/2012
"Open Source Solutions for Achieving the Millennium Development Goals"
The primary goal of IDLELO 5 is to increase the awareness, integration and adoption of free and open source software (FOSS) in Africa, emphasising how free and open...
06/12/2010
Focused on "New realities, new challenges: new opportunities for tomorrow's generation", the Rural Poverty Report 2011 from IFAD provides a comprehensive look at rural poverty, its global consequences and the prospects of eradicating it....
26/11/2010
Last week at the GTZ/BMZ Conference on ICT for Rural Economic Development, M-PESA, the microfinance initiative in Kenya, was named a "darling" of the ICT4D sector.
This week, a programme officer from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has written an...
19/11/2010
Farmers in Rwanda have asked me how they can access more complex agricultural information on their mobiles, said Paul Barera, Exec. Director, RTN.
Now if that is not a reason for excitement and a call to put our collective minds together, what is?
The...
19/11/2010
Coinciding with their 2010 ICT4D conference "ICT for Rural Economic Development", GTZ has published a new topic sheet on the potential impact of ICTs on rural economies. Macro-economic impacts such as on employment, investment and exports are considered...
25/06/2010
The special e-agriculture issue has been published recently by i4d magazine in partnership with the e-Agriculture Community of Practice.
This special issue showcases recent advances in agricultural and rural development from around the world...
19/06/2009
Published 17 March 2009
Abstract: By focusing on Internet application initiatives in four places in rural China, this study examines how the Internet is diffused and used in rural settings and what potential it has in helping rural people improve...
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