[Reader-list] Building Digital Opportunities: ICT Case Studies

[Kanti Kumar]

Building Digital Opportunities: ICT Case Studies
at http://www.digitalopportunity.org/fulltext/casestudies.shtml

Dear Friends,

As part of the Building Digital Opportunities (BDO) programme,
OneWorld is conducting case studies to help give decision-makers a
clear understanding of how civil society is actually using
information and communications technologies, and what the impact is.
The ICT projects being profiled in this series were not selected for
being success stories; they are likely to help identify both the
positive and negative impacts that ICTs have. 

Over a dozen projects run by OneWorld partners in South Asia,
Southern Africa and Central America will be profiled in this series,
which is being published by Digital Opportunity Channel. The
projects' activities range from offering wireless communication
equipment to tribal nomads and teaching slum children how to use
computers, to training NGOs how to build Websites and online
broadcasting of radio programmes. 

A brief explanation of the methodology of this study is available
with the case studies. The same structure and definitions have been
used so as to make the conclusions on impact and sustainability
fairly comparable.

Case studies of two Indian projects - Indev,  an initiative of the
British Council, and Deepalaya, an NGO training slum children in
computers - have already been published. Please visit Digital
Opportunity Channel regularly to read the latest case studies, which
will be published at least twice a month.

Kanti Kumar
Editor, Digital Opportunity Channel
www.digitalopportunity.org
OneWorld South Asia