You can read my latest ICT4D Report relating to universal access as it pertains to rural India. The reports is an overview of the feasibility of universal access provision as it relates to the regulatory, technological, and social contextual factors that drive deployment.
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The ICT4D Support Network (ISN) Virtual Wiki and Forum at EWB Australia
Published September 3, 2006 About ICT4D , Active Projects , EWB Australia ClosedThe ISN will strive to provide an overview of ICT4D taking into account mainly the best practices of ICT4D projects and the challenges involved in implementation and those stage pre and post.
In any case, this website will only serve as an introductory window into the wide, wide vista that is ICT4D. As a starting points to explore, we will be providing a link to trusted ICT4D websites which will provide a far more comprehensive introduction to any we can hope to provide with the resources we have.
An important part of this website will be the ISN specifically in the forms phpBB forums, ISN Wiki and EWB ISN Kaboodle sites which will be accessible from this home page over the following weeks.
Please read the ISN FAQ on the Wiki once you’ve registered with us and logged in. Make changes as you see appropriate as you obtain more insight into EWB’s ICT4D initiatives through participation in the ISN
‘Bridges.org’ has made available a comprehensive resource for implementing a successful ICT4FD Project. Read more here…
Engineers Without Borders Australia works with disadvantaged communities to improve their quality of life through the education and implementation of sustainable engineering projects.
Through the process of helping people in need we become more socially aware and responsible, improve ourselves and inspire others to action.
Our organisation aims to link engineering and engineering related students
with project opportunities, primarily in the development world. The
objective of all these activities is not only to contribute to new and
ongoing development projects in an effective way, but also to expand
the dimensions of experience for emerging and practicing engineers.
Read more about EWB here…
Connectivity For Refugees, CFR, began as a collaborative community development effort between the University of Melbourne Chapter of Engineers Without Borders Australia, and the Adult Multicultural Educational Services (AMES)in the early part of 2005.
Melbourne’s refugee community come from a wide variety of backgrounds and cultures and typically feel a sense of isolation in alien surroundings and difficult circumstances. Employment is hard to come by and educational backgrounds are non-uniform, both of which only increases their sense of alienation.
CFR is aimed primarily at enhancing their integration within Australian society. We aim to do this by teaming refugee students with a CFR trainer who, through a needs assessment process, helps the student in achieving their employment and education goals; and by guiding them to an understanding that the computer is a powerful communication and documentation tool and that the Internet is a vast resource of useful information.
You can view the CFR website here.
