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Agribusiness Entrepreneurship

infoDev is applying its innovation and technology expertise to accelerate the growth of innovative agribusiness SMEs that create sustainable incomes and increase productivity and competitiveness.   Go to Agribusiness Entrepreneurship

Climate Technology Program

Accelerating Innovation in the Development, Deployment and Transfer of Clean Technologies
<i>info</i>Dev Climate Technology Program: Accelerating Innovation in the Development, Deployment and Transfer of Clean Technologies The aim of infoDev's Climate Technology Program is to develop technology innovation capacity and enable accelerated transfer and commercialization of technologies for the mitigation and adaptation of climate change in developing countries. Go to Climate Technology Program

Creating Sustainable Businesses

 

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Finland, Nokia, and infoDev partner in a €12.9 million program Creating Sustainable Businesses in the Knowledge Economy. The aim of the program is to encourage innovation and competitiveness among SMEs in the information and communication technologies and agribusiness sectors in particular. Go to Creating Sustainable Businesses

Education

Using ICTs to deliver, improve, and kick-start innovation in education
ICTs and Education For All infoDev is developing a rich knowledge resource of survey reports, briefing sheets, handbooks, toolkits, case studies, best practice and lessons learned in ICT4E (Information and Communication Technologies for Development). Click through to our must-read surveys of ICT4E in India and South Asia, the Caribbean and Africa or take part in the lively discussions on educational technology at the EduTechDebate blog supported by infoDev and UNESCO. Go to Education

infoDev Annual Symposium, 2010

Clean, Green and Mobile; Making Technology Work for the Poor
Click on 'Links' at left for presentations, photos, audio and documents. infoDev held its Annual Symposium this week, on 9 June, 2010 in Washington DC. An invited audience of stakeholders from leading experts and practitioners in information and innovation for development, donor agencies, partner organizations, foundations, and World Bank and IFC colleagues attended the event themed ‘Clean, Green and Mobile; Making Technology Work for the Poor’. Go to infoDev Annual Symposium, 2010

Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Promoting ICT-Enabled Entrepreneurship through Business Incubation
Promoting ICT-enabled entrepreneurship in developing countries  - infoDev's global business incubator network consists of nearly 300 incubators in over 80 developing countries assisting 20,000 enterprises which have created more than 220,000 jobs. More information about the network - including a Directory with over 140 profiles, an Incubator Toolkit, Success Stories and ICT Tools - can be found at www.idisc.net. Go to Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Monitoring & Evaluation

Assessing the impact of ICTs in development efforts
What works?  What doesn't?  How do we know?  Initiatives using ICTs for development (ICT4D) have proliferated, with a corresponding increase in resources devoted to them, in the hope that ICTs can help developing countries reach the Millennium Development Goals. Yet rigorous, field-tested knowledge about ICT4D issues, and a deeper understanding of the enabling conditions and success factors in ICT4D initiatives, have been relatively scarce. Go to Monitoring & Evaluation

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Access to ICT

Broadening the reach and affordability of ICTs
Extending ICT benefits to all ICTs can only serve as effective tools of broad-based development, poverty reduction and opportunity for all, if people in every corner of developing countries—and at all levels of society—have reliable and affordable access to them. Broadening the reach and affordability of these technologies and services is a complex and difficult challenge for many developing countries, requiring substantial investments that are often unaffordable for the public sector and unattractive to the private sector. Go to Access to ICT

Geographic Information Systems

Using GIS and Spatial Data Infrastructure to Monitor Development Outcomes
infoDev and the World Bank Group’s Finance, Economics and Urban Department (FEU) are working with Jordan and Uganda to explore, assess and share the best ways to use GIS in areas such as health, education, agriculture and rural development, clean technology and public administration. Go to Geographic Information Systems

Global Forum

Harnessing Innovation & Entrepreneurship for Development
Innovation and entrepreneurship (I&E) are the structural axes of a development agenda capable of coping with the challenges of the new world context and expectations of a more sustainable and cohesive society. It is a moment for setting out solutions that are, at one and the same time, daring and sensible for I&E’s contribution to this international effort, as well as for determining the means required to make it operational. Go to Global Forum

Governance

Increasing civic engagement, transparency, and accountability through ICTs
ICTs and effective, accountable, participatory governance Among the many promises of the digital revolution is its potential to empower individuals and communities and make governments more efficient, transparent, accountable and responsive to the needs of their citizens. In this section, infoDev provides an Introduction to E-Government and related material, to assist developing countries and their partners in the international development community to better understand the power of ICTs for these purposes. Go to Governance

Health

Opportunities and challenges in using ICTs to improve public health
ICTs and the health sector 
Improving the health of individuals and communities, and strengthening health systems, disease detection and prevention are crucial to development and poverty reduction. ICT has the potential to impact almost every aspect of the health sector. In public health, information management and communication processes are pivotal, and are facilitated or limited by available ICT. Go to Health

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Rural Livelihoods

Increasing economic and social opportunity using ICTs
Reducing poverty through ICTs Even the poorest people have information and communication needs. Reducing the number of individuals and families living in poverty is a fundamental goal of the international development community. Yet it is a goal that has proved elusive in many countries.  ICTs, properly adapted, can help enhance the livelihoods of the poor in numerous ways. Go to Rural Livelihoods
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