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 * 1) Akinsola, Olabode S., Marlien E. Herselman and S. J. Jacobs. 2005. “ICT provision to disadvantaged urban communities: A study in South Africa and Nigeria”. International Journal of Education and Development using ICT. 1 (3). http://ijedict.dec.uwi.edu//viewarticle.php?id=57&layout=html.  The focus of this research was to develop a sustainable Information and Communication Technology (ICT) model in a Nigerian community.
 * 2) Wagner, D., Bob Day and J. S. Sun. March 30, 2004.  “Information Technologies and Education for the Poor in Africa (ITEPA)”. Final Report for Imfundo: Partnership for IT in Education.  http://imfundo.digitalbrain.com/imfundo/web/papers/itepa/ITEPA.doc. Report contains recommendations for a Pro-Poor ICT4D Non-Formal Education Policy.
 * 3) “The First Scale-up CMC Gets off the Ground in Mozambique”. 2005. UNESCO Communication and Information Bulletin. http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=19082&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html.  The first Community Multimedia Centre with radio and ICTs in Mozambique, opened as part of UNESCO’s multi-country scale up initiative, was inaugurated on May 9, 2005.
 * 4) “Ethiopian Centre Promoting ICT Use by Blind People Supported by UNESCO”. January 2003.  UNESCO Communication and Information Bulletin. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/external/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fportal.unesco.org%2Fci%2Fev.php%3FURL_ID%3D6926%26URL_DO%3DDO_TOPIC%26URL_SECTION%3D201%26reload%3D1041834627. A programme in Ethiopia to support training for the blind and visually impaired using ICTs.
 * 5) "IICD supported project: Kalomo Bwacha Women’s ICT Club”. April 2006. International Institute for Communication and Development. http://www.iicd.org/projects/articles/iicdprojects.2006-04-25.0903449865. Women in a rural area of Zambia are using ICTs in a women’s resource centre to improve money making activities by using the Internet to market their produce.
 * 6) Laureys, Francois. November 2006.  “ICTs and Rural Development: a case from Burkina Faso”. International Institute for Communication and Development. http://www.iicd.org/articles/iicdnews.2006-11-06.1897137599. This article describes three of the five IICD supported projects in Burkina Faso focusing on rural development using ICTs.
 * 7) “Egypt Smart Schools”. 2006.  International Education Systems. http://ies.edc.org/ourwork/project.php?id=3600&topic=13.  An EDC pilot project to build the capacity of teachers to integrate ICTs into teaching and learning, and, to strengthen the capacity of local non-governmental organization (NGO) members to assist schools and communities to manage school-based Community Learning Centers for community development.
 * 8) "dot-EDU Southern Sudan Interactive Radio Instruction (SSIRI) Program”. International Education Systems. Project duration: 2004-2008. http://ies.edc.org/ourwork/project.php?id=3487&topic=13.  The SSIRI program designs, develops, and pilot-tests appropriate and cost-effective technologies in an effort to provide learning opportunities for children, adults and teachers in southern Sudan.
 * 9) “Nigerian Government kick starts Computer for All Nigerians Initiative (CANi)”. June 10, 2006.  Highway Africa News.  http://hana.ru.ac.za/article.cfm?articleID=1180. The Nigerian Federal Government has placed an order for the supply of 14,500 units of personal computers under the CANi initiative.
 * 10) “Africa Online’s Infinet Will Boost Basic Education”. September 8, 2006.  Ministry of Communications, Republic of Ghana. http://www.moc.gov.gh/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=159&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0.  InfiNet, Africa Online’s new mobile broad band wireless service, has strong potential for applications in basic education in rural schools.
 * 11) Virtual Souk: E-Commerce for unprivileged artisans”. March 25, 2002.  iConnect Online. http://www.iconnect-online.org/Stories/Story.import5014/view?searchterm=virtual%20souk.  The Virtual Souk is a World Bank supported project that helps craftsmen from the Middle East and North Africa to become economically competitive. The project trains the craftsmen in small business administration techniques and use of the Internet in Tunisia, Lebanon and Morocco.
 * 12) Wambui, Mercy. “Development Through Radio: A Case Study from Sierra Leone”. 2005.  The Communication Initiative. http://www.comminit.com/ict/ictcasestudies/ictcasestudies-17.html.  The Forum of Conscience (FOC), a human rights non-governmental organization, set out to establish a Development Through Radio(DTR) project in Sierra Leone that would provide a  channel through which women could voice their views on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission process and bring gender issues to the fore in the process.
 * 13) “ Evaluation Report on UNESCO's Community Multimedia Centre Initiative(CMC)”. May 22, 2006. Internal Oversight Service, Evaluation Section:  UNESCO. http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/files/22129/11477736959CMC_Evaluation_Final.pdf/CMC%2BEvaluation_Final.pdf.   An assessment of UNESCO’s CMC initiative which promotes sustainable local development through community-based facilities that combine traditional media like radio, television and print with new information communication technologies  such as computers, the Internet, and mobile devices.
 * 14) Pigato, Miria. 2001. “Information and Communication Technology, Poverty, and Development in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia”. World Bank.  http://www-wds.worldbank.org/servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2001/09/28/000094946_01091404003925/Rendered/PDF/multi0page.pdf. Examines patterns of utilization, ownership and affordability of Information and Communication Technologies.
 * 15) “The ICT Programme”. 2006.  Mauritius National Computer Board. http://www.gov.mu/portal/site/ncbnew?content_id=04c5542c04f7d010VgnVCM1000000a04a8c0RCRD.  Across the country a programme to train 400,000 Mauritians in ICT over the next four years began on September 4 in the IT labs of 60 secondary schools.
 * 16) “Using Information and Communication Technology to Combat HIV/AIDS – Uganda”. March 24, 2004. The Communication Initiative. http://www.comminit.com/experiences/pds32004/experiences-1900.html.  Implemented by the USA-based Education Development Center (EDC) and partners, this project uses peer learning, social action, and small business projects that integrate ICTs with information about HIV/AIDS to enable youth to build IT skills. A broader goal is to test the potential of ICTs as a means of facilitating youth and community learning about HIV/AIDS.
 * 17) “Computerize Nigeria Project”. October 2006. This Day. http://www.independentngonline.com/news/51/ARTICLE/13160/2006-10-16.html. The Computerize Nigeria Project, a NGO, has concluded plans to invest over N400 million in two mega computer training schools as a first phase in the planned roll-out of mega computer schools across the country. One, to open in January 2007,will be an IT training school and the other, when operational,  will train civil servants, teachers, lecturers and unemployed graduates.
 * 18) Parkinson, Sarah. 2005.  “Telecentres, Access and Development: Experience and Lessons from Uganda and South Africa”.  IRDC Books free online: ITDG Publishing/Fountain/IRDC.  This book analyzes the experience of South Africa and Uganda in their quest to provide universal ICT access, with particular emphasis on the role of shared access centres (public telephones, cybercafes, telecentres, business centres, etc.) and the factors that affect their performance.
 * 19) “Media for Sustainable Development”. May, 2004.  South Africa: Media for Sustainable Development.  This report makes specific recommendations on how community radio stations in Africa can improve on sustainable programming.
 * 20) Dymond, Andrew and Sonja Oestmann. December 2004.  “A Rural ICT Toolkit for Africa”. African Connection: Centre for Strategic Planning. The World Bank. http://www.infodev.org/en/Publication.23.html.  The tool kit provides a platform for actors in rural ICT development by giving detailed guidelines for preparing, documenting, measuring the impact of, and justifying the financial start up support for ICT projects in rural areas.
 * 21) “Nigeria gets $200m to boost ICT in rural areas”. October 27, 2006.  The Tide Online. http://www.thetidenews.com/article.aspx?qrDate=09/23/2006&qrTitle=Nigeria%20gets%20$200m%20to%20boost%20ICT%20in%20rural%20areas&qrColumn=NEWS.  The loan will be used to deploy the National Technology Development Agency’s Mobile Internet Units in rural areas as part of the effort to stimulate interest in ICT in the country.
 * 22) “Improving Basic Education, Especially for Girls in Targeted Areas – dot-EDU”. Project duration: October 2004 – October 2005.  Academy for Educational Development.  http://www.aed.org/Projects/dotEDU_DRCongo.cfm.  This project, in remote areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo, is training local educators in the development of technology- enhanced curriculum to improve basic education, improve teacher skills and increase community participation.
 * 23) Okello, Dorothy. October 2002. “Women of Uganda Network”.  ICT Update. http://ictupdate.cta.int/index.php/article/articleview/28/1/8/. The Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET) is a non-governmental organization established in May 2000 that promotes the use of ICTs by women to enhance, share and exchange information.
 * 24) Sibanda, Jennifer. October 2002.  “Development through Radio”.  ICT Update.   http://ictupdate.cta.int/index.php/article/articleview/29/1/8/.  In Zimbabwe, DTR is a rural project where groups of women  are trained to produce radio programmes.
 * 25) “One Village Foundation”. http://www.onevillagefoundation.org/ovf/ovf_ghana_index.html. This website provides goals, strategies and projects of the Foundation headquartered in California and operating in Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya.
 * 26) “The Bridges to the Future Initiative”. www.literacyonline.org/bfi_ili/countries_ghana.html. In community learning and technology centres. BFI-Ghana seeks to improve the basic skills, literacy and entry level vocational skills of out-of-school youth and young adults in poor communities.  ICT tools are used to improve the training of teachers.
 * 27) Alpha, Morie, “Bridging the Digital Divide in Sierra Leone”.   January 3, 2004. www.wscsd.org/ejournal/article.php3?id_article=77.   The local chapter of the International Education And Resource Network (iEARN) is helping young people collaborate with other young people from different parts of the world on projects which involve peer group education through the use of ICTs.
 * 28) Rowe, Mark. “E for education”.  DFID.  http://www.developments.org.uk/data/Issue22/e-for-education.htm - top.  Nairobits, an NGO run by local staff and supported by Dutch and Irish computer experts, has developed a free e-learning programme in computer skills for youths living in the slum areas of Nairobi.
 * 29) Nakaseke Telecentre (Uganda)”. October 2002. http://ictupdate.cta.int/index.php/article/archive/14.  The centre has produced a CD-ROM, Rural Women in Africa: Ideas for Earning Money, in Luganda and English, with graphics and audio interfaces to facilitate its use by illiterate women.
 * 30) “Electronic Learning Network (ELN)”. http://ictupdate.cta.int/index.php/article/archive/14. The Electronic Learning Network (ELN) brings together women professionals, male colleagues and women farmers in Africa who learn how to use ICTs for food security and environmental sustainability.
 * 31) Bobbili, Raja and Marta Luczynska. “Radio Farm Forum and Afronet: Learning from Successful ICT Projects in Zambia”. http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=RNWI,RNWI:2006-01,RNWI:en&q=%e2%80%9cRadio+Farm+Forum+and+Afronet.  This paper analyzes the successes of the Radio Farm Forum and Afronet, two organizations using ICTs successfully.
 * Pye, David, Joan Stephenson, Susan Harris, Barbara Lee and Marilyn Leask. 2003.  “Using ICT to increase the effectiveness of community-based non-formal education for rural people in Sub-Saharan Africa: the CERP Project”. London: Department for International Development. http://www.nfer.ac.uk/research-areas/pims-data/summaries/using-ict-to-increase-the-effectiveness-of-community-based-non-formal-education-for-rural-people-in-sub-saharan-africa-the-cerp-project.cfm. This project sought to test out and extend the use of ICT in non-formal education in learning centers in Zambia.
 * 1) “Imfundo research programme in Ethiopia.” DFID.  http://www.dfid.gov.uk/research/imfundo-ethiopia.asp.  Imfundo is working with the  Forum for Street Children in Nazareth to implement IFORUM that looks at how ICTs can best be used to enhance the learning experiences of street children. The main purpose of the project is to develop replicable ICT based materials and methods for supporting out of school children’s learning and then to disseminate them throughout the country.
 * 2) “Genre, agriculture, développement rural et société de l’information”. GenARDIS. http://www.apcwomen.org/genardis/. The GenARDIS Small Grants Fund supports work on gender-related issues in ICTs for African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) agricultural and rural development.  2005 Winners of GenARDI S awards included projects in seven African countries.
 * 3) “Gender, ICT and…ostrich eggs? GRACE, an African ICT Research Network”. June 2006.  Gender Research in Africa into ICTs for Empowerment (GRACE).   http://grace.gn.apc.org/. GRACE has 14 research sites in 12 countries exploring the ways in which African women use ICTs to empower themselves.
 * 4) “Timebound Program on Eliminating Child Labor in Tanzania”. 2002-2006. International Education Systems (IES).  http://ies.edc.org/ourwork/project.php?id=3224&topic=13.  A report of an interactive radio instruction series called Mambo Elimu that reached approximately 10,000 children in Tanzania who had no access to formal education. A similar project has been conducted in Somalia.
 * 5) “Chezasalama”.  http://www.chezasalama.com/, This Web site is a user-friendly information portal, in several languages, on reproductive health which was developed within the health sector reform programme in Tanzania.
 * 6) “Resources about Women & Gender”.  Women of Uganda (Wougnet). http://www.wougnet.org/Links/aboutwomen.html. A women-led monthly web-based newspaper that is distributed via the Internet and community radio networks to by-pass the challenges of literacy and distribution.
 * 7) “Increasing rural entrepreneurs women income – the case of Buwuma Multimedia Centre”. APC WNSP News.  Entebbe: Uganda.  http://www.apcwomen.org/news/index.shtml?x=94770.  This centre serves women, rural poor, farmers and business people using ICTs for training in Enterprise development, entrepreneurship, business management and specialized agricultural skills.
 * 8) “Fantsuam Foundation, (Nigeria)”. October 30, 2002. ICT Update. Issue 8.  http://ictupdate.cta.int/index.php/article/archive/14.   The Foundation has adopted an innovative approach to improving healthcare and education, primarily for women, through shared access to ICT facilities. It offers ICT training at community learning centres and operates a solar-powered rural telecentre in southern Kaduna.
 * 9) “Networking for Change and Empowerment”. http://www.apcwomen.org/eng_index.shtml.  This is the web site of The Women’s Networking Support Programme (WNSP), a global network of women who support women networking for social change and women's empowerment, through the use of  ICTs.
 * 10) “Development of Non-formal Education through Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)”. UNESCO.  Project duration: January 2002-December 2004.   http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=41550&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html.  A pilot training programme, operating in Namibia, Burkino Faso, Mali and Uganda, on the use of ICTs for personnel involved in literacy and non-formal education.
 * 11) “ ICT-mediated livelihood training of women in vegetable production in the western rural area of Sierra Leone”. GenARDIS. http://www.apcwomen.org/genardis/genardis_project.shtml?cmd%5B734%5D=i-734-a71153fcf90743cf2fa4d15f19653ce1. The project prepares extension agents to train women in using ICTs for developing their functional literacy skills in crain-crain and okra production.
 * 12) Mwewa, Bornwell. August 2005.  “Taking Mobile Phones to Women in Chipata”.  One World.  http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/116942/1/.  OneWorld Africa and the Chipata District Women’s Development Association have designed a project to setup an information communication network within the Chipata district in Zambia  which will disseminate information on improving livlihoods to 12 communities.
 * 13) “IICD supported project: Chawama Youth Project”.  December 2006.  iicd.  http://www.iicd.org/projects/articles/zm-chawama. In the Chawama Township of Lusaka the Skills Training Centre, providing life skills training to unemployed and poor youth, has recently added an ICT centre. It is serving not only the youth, but people in the community.
 * 14) “PACEEQ (Community Participation for Equitable and Quality Basic Education)”. Project duration: 2001-2006.  International Education Systems.  http://ies.edc.org/ourwork/project.php?id=3743&topic=13.  In Guinea, the first phase of PACEEQ involed rural radio stations producing programming to train Parent Associations (PAs) and raise awareness of community participation in schooling. Currently, IES is working with regional and national PA coordinating committees to develop communication strategies to promote school-community collaboration and to mobilize local action around school reform, girls’ education, and HIV/AIDS.
 * 15) “ICT Knowledge Bowl For Kids”. 2003.   Gender and ICT Awards. http://www.genderawards.net/gict_pr_db.shtml?AA_SL_Session=bd4c3ca897fb8&x=18904.  Gambia YMCAs and World Links developed a project for students in 19 rural or urban schools to share ICT information and learn from each other.