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	Design Networking Across Conventions: Market-Oriented Capacity-Building Friday 12 Oct 2007 Ami Zarchi & Lidwina Dox Throughout the past year I worked on two different Design and Product development projects (with a focus on traditional crafts) in Ethiopia carried out by the United Nations and the World Bank. Very soon I realised read more Comments (0) Views (184) Changing Policy Friday 12 Oct 2007 Rohan Samarajiva Government is about the sustenance of hope. Yet in too many places, government is about killing hope: “you can’t make it because you’re poor/ your ethnicity is wrong / you aren’t from the right school.” When hope is dead read more Comments (0) Views (251) Development for Sustainability of Women and ICT Programs Friday 12 Oct 2007 Claudia Morrell The Center for Women and Information Technology (CWIT) was established at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in Maryland, USA in 1998 by Dr. Joan Korenman. Dr. Korenman was one of the first women in the U.S. to recognize read more Comments (0) Views (144) Destination: Economic Empowerment Friday 12 Oct 2007 Akhtar Badshah People worldwide are facing serious problems such as poverty, disease and hunger. Many of those problems can be linked directly to a lack of economic opportunity. Through the Microsoft Unlimited Potential (UP) program read more Comments (0) Views (187) Un-Sexy and Voiceless!!! Friday 12 Oct 2007 Chong Sheau Ching When I first founded ‘Mothers for Mothers’ nine years ago, organizing community conferences to introduce mothers to the idea of working at home, I was met with lots of laughter and ridicule when I sought sponsorships from the corporate sector. Whoever heard of mothers sitting in conferences? read more Comments (0) Views (209) It's Time to Fly! Friday 12 Oct 2007 Don Hollander Imagine a world where people communicate and understand and appreciate our diversity. Imagine a world where the tyranny of distance is overcome and time zones and huge travel times become an asset. Imagine a world read more Comments (0) Views (187) There Are Other Roads to Travel...Or There Are Other Destinations to Reach/Travel... Friday 12 Oct 2007 Ravi Gupta The ICT4D journey at CSDMS started in an interesting way. When we started it all, we had not heard of ICT, forget about ICT4D... Having studied Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in my masters I felt that this technology had immense potential read more Comments (0) Views (178) Young Development Innovators Friday 12 Oct 2007 Sunit Shrestha In developing regions, young people represent a significant share of the population – almost half of Asia is made up of young people, more than 40 percent of Latin America is under the age of 30 and approximately 30 percent of Africa consists of young people. The role that young people play read more Comments (0) Views (170) ICT4D as an Agent of Social Change Friday 12 Oct 2007 Jody Mahoney Can a United States-based nonprofit whose mission is "to help nonprofits and NGOs intelligently adopt technology in order to enhance their missions" do so by adopting pro-poor information and communications technology (ICT) policies and practices? Pro-poor policies read more Comments (0) Views (135) Internet Governance: Analogue Solutions for Digital Problems Friday 12 Oct 2007 Jovan Kurbalija The Internet and the entire Internet technology (IT) revolution is ultimately based on 1s and 0s. Everything we experience online has its roots in 1s and 0s. These two digits have had such an impact on society that read more Comments (0) Views (139) African Stakeholders and the WSIS Journey: Is There Far to Travel? Friday 12 Oct 2007 Aida Opoku-Mensah Africa came to the WSIS Summits with a big bang, with representation from government officials, Civil Society Organisations, Media, the Private Sector and even Parliamentarians! To prove how seriously these stakeholders took the events networks were created, such as the Africa Civil Society for the Information Society read more Comments (0) Views (164) Bullock Carts in a Runaway Track Friday 12 Oct 2007 Harsha Liyanage In early 1996, we did not know how to combine PC into the social-web of rural community in Sri Lanka. It took 3 years and 9 months for us to learn that it was possible, and to recognize the appropriate model. In those long hard lessons we had learned PCs can work in the dusty – dirty – warm environments read more Comments (0) Views (157) Design Thinking for Development (D4D) Friday 12 Oct 2007 Sailendra Dev Appanah In order for development initiatives to effectively meet their goals, design thinking has to be embraced as a core strategy. The landscape of development is sputtering. As billions of dollars are poured intoexisting and new initiatives, the impact achieved remains is significantly low. Stasis, confusion, and sluggishness read more Comments (0) Views (362) Young Social Entrepreneurs: Preparing the Test Pilots for ICT4D Revolution Friday 12 Oct 2007 Rahul Nainwal One thing amazed me in Tunis, the number of young people attending it, showcasing their products and achievements and promises that ICT4D can bring to the world. Not afraid of the failures or the difficulties that lie ahead, they are the bravest test pilots of the ICT4D revolution read more Comments (0) Views (134) Free Software, Open Access Repositories and Open Hardware for Development Friday 12 Oct 2007 Vedran Vucic In many developing countries and regions we see tremendous efforts to foster economic growth. Indeed, those countries are affected by huge discrepancies in access to social welfare and sometimes to basic needs for their population. Those political difficulties are often serious read more Comments (0) Views (261) ICT4Peace before ICT4D? Friday 12 Oct 2007 Sanjana Hattotuwa Growing up in conflict does one of two things – it teaches you the limitations of violence to engender sustainable social change, or it compels you to enter the cycle of violence itself. Especially when the well-springs of hope have run dry read more Comments (0) Views (249) Empowerment and Access to Knowledge (A2K) in Rural Communities of Moldova Friday 12 Oct 2007 Veronica Cretu This paper aims at presenting some possible solutions for integrating the ICTs into the rural community development read more Comments (0) Views (173) Nobody Can Change the World! Friday 12 Oct 2007 Virginia Paque Using ICT4D can be as simple as sitting a person in front of a computer and letting them teach themselves. read more Comments (0) Views (193) The Chronicles of Taiz Friday 12 Oct 2007 Ziad Haddara In “The Chronicles of Narnia- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”, the little girl Lucy discovers an old wardrobe covered with a dusty piece of fabric, in an obscure, out of the way bedroom in the big, stuffy mansion. She cautiously opens the wooden door and slowly steps into the wardrobe read more Comments (0) Views (189) New Institutional Designs for a Better World Friday 12 Oct 2007 Gianluca Misuraca I wake up in the morning, and my first concern is to check my emails… before to go to bed… I also check emails… I spend most of my time in front of a computer, writing or speaking to someone, no matter the time and including week ends read more Comments (0) Views (256) Gender Equality in the Knowledge Society: Achievements and Challenges Friday 12 Oct 2007 Gloria Bonder read more Comments (0) Views (246) OH! ICT4D, si tu savais ce que je sais ! Friday 12 Oct 2007 Avis Momeni Les TICs traditionnelles ou modernes sont des outils comme n’importe quel autre et doivent permettre à toutes les composantes de la société d’avoir accès au savoir partagé read more Comments (0) Views (181)