Making the Difference - ICT as Key Enablers for Equitable and Sustainable Development
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This 17-page brochure aims to show how and where information and communication technology (ICT) can make a difference in sustainable development and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It argues that it is as an overarching enabling platform rather than simply an instrument for reaching individual development objectives. The power of ICT can most effectively be harnessed through participation and cooperation of all stakeholders and all sectors of society - government, civil society and the private sector. According to this brochure, only by combining their particular competencies and resources can the massive roll-out of innovative ICT-based services and the scale-up of development interventions be achieved which are necessary to make a lasting developmental impact.
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Strategic factors for development
ICT can help to meet the following challenges:
Poverty reduction: ICT can significantly contribute to poverty reduction by facilitating the efficient, scalable, affordable and pervasive delivery of goods, services and information flows between people, governments and firms and by enhancing empowerment, opportunity and security.
Scaling up: ICT can facilitate the scale up of development investments and initiatives, both in terms of planning, implementation and monitoring of a great number of interventions simultaneously as well as in terms of broadening access to essential services.
Civil society participation: ICT can facilitate the strategic involvement in public debate and policy formulation of a diverse range of actors from social movements to local entrepreneurs, civil society organisations and researchers, public policy makers, political analysts and journalists, students and teachers.
Good governance: By improving efficiency, transparency, accountability and participation, ICT can contribute to realising fundamental principles of good governance.
Harmonisation: ICT can help increase aid effectiveness by facilitating the coordination of all different actors and the sharing of information and knowledge.
Click here to download the English version of this publication in PDF format.
Click here to download the Spanish version of this publication in PDF format.
Click here to download the French version of this publication in PDF format.
[excerpt]
Strategic factors for development
ICT can help to meet the following challenges:
Poverty reduction: ICT can significantly contribute to poverty reduction by facilitating the efficient, scalable, affordable and pervasive delivery of goods, services and information flows between people, governments and firms and by enhancing empowerment, opportunity and security.
Scaling up: ICT can facilitate the scale up of development investments and initiatives, both in terms of planning, implementation and monitoring of a great number of interventions simultaneously as well as in terms of broadening access to essential services.
Civil society participation: ICT can facilitate the strategic involvement in public debate and policy formulation of a diverse range of actors from social movements to local entrepreneurs, civil society organisations and researchers, public policy makers, political analysts and journalists, students and teachers.
Good governance: By improving efficiency, transparency, accountability and participation, ICT can contribute to realising fundamental principles of good governance.
Harmonisation: ICT can help increase aid effectiveness by facilitating the coordination of all different actors and the sharing of information and knowledge.
Click here to download the English version of this publication in PDF format.
Click here to download the Spanish version of this publication in PDF format.
Click here to download the French version of this publication in PDF format.
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English, Spanish, French
Number of Pages
17
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