Dear Colleagues, My paper is now available on the Australian Development Gateway entitled 'ICT and Development: Help or Hindrance?' (PDF 339K)
<http://www.developmentgateway.com.au/pdf/ict/CurtainICT4Development040903.p df> > Can information and communications technologies (ICT) make a valuable > contribution to achieving development outcomes? In his report, Richard > Curtain explores how ICT can be best used to achieve development > objectives and vastly improve productivity, given the operating > constraints that may apply in developing countries. What I offer that goes beyond existing analysis (as far as I am aware) are two checklists of factors to consider in relation to ICT for Development. One checklist relates to the design or maintenance of an ICT-led development project. The other checklist relates to a mainstream development project assessing whether and how to use ICT. I would welcome feedback on the utility of the checklists as I hope I can turn them into a web-based version with hyperlinks to examples from relevant projects. Richard Curtain email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Curtain Consulting, Melbourne www.curtain-consulting.net.au www.apprn.org ------------ ***GKD is solely supported by EDC, a Non-Profit Organization*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: <http://www.edc.org/GLG/gkd/>
