I was presenting this week at a USAID discussion in Washington on aspects of
ICTs as they relate to the education-for-all (EFA) initiative of particular
interest to a coalition of UN agencies following the Dakar EFA 2000 meeting.
Dakar followup frameworks (especially the regional ones for Latin America and
Africa) give renewed attention to engaging ICTs towards the International
Development Goals. Everyone at our session agreed there seems to be a major
research lacuna around the value-added of ICTs as bringing new knowledge
sources and potentially empowering direct access to the poorest
communities... this issue - immediate and direct utility of the broad range
of emerging ICTs (but especially of the INTERNET) to the poorest of the
poor - seems SO central to the viability of ICTs as a means of addressing
poverty, why is there not more clear research guidance for policy and
practice... even strong empirical if anecdotal evidence from reputable
community leaders would help.... but there seems very little beyond the
hole-in-the-wall stories... or am I (quite likely) missing something...?
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