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Bilateral organizations

Canada

Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)

• CIDA’s Strategy on Knowledge for Development through ICT
  http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/ict
  http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/INET/IMAGES.NSF/vLUImages/pdf/$file/ICT.pdf
  
• IDRC’s ICT4D Research Program website
  http://www.idrc.ca/ict4d/
  
• Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) for Poverty Reduction: When, Where and How?
  http://www.idrc.ca/uploads/user-S/1074024575110618469203RS_ICT-Pov_18_July.pdf

Denmark

Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA)

• Globalisation --Progress Through Partnership. Priorities of the Danish Government for Danish Development Assistance (2006-2010)
  http://www.um.dk/NR/rdonlyres/A8318B35-D44F-407E-B090-70249E59F842/0/globalisationengelsk.pdf
  Note: This is the general development assistance strategy
  
• DANIDA Good ICT Practices website
  http://www.goodictpractices.dk

European Union

• Financing ICT for Development: The EU Approach
  http://www.dfid.gov.uk/pubs/files/eu-financ-wsis-english.pdf

Finland

• Development Policy Guidelines for ICT and the Information Society
  http://formin.finland.fi/public/download.aspx?ID=9463&GUID={5933ef0c-0850-4ece-b381-d7447df22d0f}

France

Agence Française de Développement

• Agence Française de Développement website
  http://www.afd.fr/jahia/Jahia/lang/fr/pid/1 
  Note: General development strategy

Germany

Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

• Information and Communications Technologies – Tools for Development Cooperation
  http://www.bmz.de/en/issues/Cooperation/germany/Information_technologies/index.html

Internationale Weiterbildung und Entwicklung (inwent)

• it@inwent - supporting ICT networks in the south
  http://www.it-inwent.org/

Ireland

IrishAid

• White Paper onf Irish Aid
  http://www.irishaid.gov.ie/whitepaper/
  (ICTs discussed on p. 114 of the English version)
• Report of the Task Force on ICT and Development
  http://www.irishaid.gov.ie/Uploads/ICT%20TF%20Report.pdf
• ICT section of IrishAid web site
  http://www.irishaid.gov.ie/article.asp?article=19

Italy

• Directorate-General for Development Cooperation
  http://www.esteri.it/eng/2_10_128.asp
  Note: This is the general international development strategy

Japan

• Official Development Assistance (ODA) White Paper, 2005
  http://www.mofa.go.jp/policy/oda/white/2005/index.htm

The Netherlands

The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Development Cooperation

• Dutch Aid Policy
  http://www.minbuza.nl/en/developmentcooperation/Themes
  Note: This is the general development assistance strategy

Sweden

Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)

• ICTs for Poverty Alleviation: Basic Tool and Enabling Sector
  http://www.eldis.org/fulltext/sidaictpoverty.pdf
• Department for Democracy and Social Development (DESO) ICT for development strategy overview
  http://www.sida.se/sida/jsp/sida.jsp?d=707&language=en_US
• Digital Empowerment – A Strategy for ICT for Development (ICT4D) for DESO
  http://www.sida.se/shared/jsp/download.jsp?f=SIDA3302en_DigitalEmpowerStrateWEB.pdf&a=4577
• Digital Empowerment – Guidelines to the DESO Strategy for ICT for Development (ICT4D)
  http://www.sida.se/shared/jsp/download.jsp?f=SIDA3301_DigitalEmpGuidWEB.pdf&a=4577

Switzerland

Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)

• ICT for Development program area web site
  http://www.sdc.admin.ch/index.php?navID=21410&langID=1&userhash=18ad97c3%3Ababa37bd%
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• Up-scaling Pro-Poor ICT Policies and Practices: A Review of Experience , with Emphasis on Low Income Countries in Asia and Africa
  http://162.23.39.120/dezaweb/ressources/resource_en_24707.pdf
• Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Poverty Reduction: Discussion Paper
  http://162.23.39.120/dezaweb/ressources/resource_en_24102.pdf
• Chennai Statement on Up-scaling Pro-Poor ICT Policies and Practices
  http://162.23.39.120/dezaweb/ressources/resource_en_24663.pdf
• Information and Communication Technologies and large-scale poverty reduction: Lessons from Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean
  http://162.23.39.120/dezaweb/ressources/resource_en_25250.pdf
• ICT4D – connecting people for a better world.  Lessons, Innovations and Perspectives of Information and Communication Technologies in Development
  http://www.globalknowledge.org/ict4d/

United Kingdom

Department for International Development (DFID)

• The significance of information and communication technologies for reducing poverty
  http://www.dfid.gov.uk/pubs/files/ictpoverty.pdf

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Multilateral organizations

Asian Development Bank (ADB)

• Toward E-Development in Asia and the Pacific: A Strategic Approach for Information and Communication Technology
  http://www.adb.org/documents/policies/ict/default.asp

Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

• ICT for Development Strategy
  http://www.iadb.org/sds/ICT/site_5930_e.htm
• Information and Communication Technology for Development web site
  http://www.iadb.org/sds/ict/site_5928_e.htm

World Bank

Global Information and Communication Technologies ICT Department (GICT)

• ICT and MDGs: a World Bank Group Perspective
  http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679
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  WDS&entityID=000090341_20040915091312
  
• GICT web site
  http://www.worldbank.org/gict

infoDev – The Information for Development program

• Information and Communication Technologies, Poverty And Development: Learning From Experience
  /en/Publication.17.html

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Other organizations and initiatives

Development Assistance Committee

• Development Assistance Committee (DAC): Donor ICT Strategies Matrix (CD-Rom, 2003 Edition)
  http://www1.oecd.org/dac/ictcd/htm/matrix.htm

Global Alliance for ICT Policy and Development
(formerly the United Nations Information and Communication Technologies Task Force)

• Fourth Annual Report of the Information and Communications Technologies Task Force
  http://www.unicttaskforce.org/perl/documents.pl?id=1594

World Summit on the Information Society

• Documents from the Geneva Phase (WSIS-I)
  http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/index1.html
• Geneva Declaration of Principles & Geneva Plan of Action
  http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_multi.asp?lang=en&id=1161|1160
• Documents from the Tunis Phase (WSIS-II)
  http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/index2.html
• Tunis Commitment & Tunis Agenda for the Information Society
  http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_multi.asp?lang=en&id=2266|2267
• Follow-up to the World Summit on the Information Society and review of the Commission on Science and Technology for Development
  http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_multi.asp?lang=en&id=2368|0

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Other documents

• For a wide range of related materials, you may also wish to visit the ICT policymaking section of the Eldis web site. 
• infoDev maintains a briefing sheet on ICTs and the education MDGS: Excerpts from key documents that might also be of interest.