Information Technologies and International Development

2003 - 2008

Current editor(s): Ernest J. Wilson III and Michael L. Best

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Volume 4, issue 4, 2008

Announcing ITID 2.0 pp. iii-iv

François Bar and Michael L. Best

Why a Holistic E-Development Framework? pp. 1-7

Nagy Hanna

What does a Goat Have to Do with Development? Diasporas, IT, and the Case of Thamel.com pp. 9-13

Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff

Problematic Empowerment: West African Internet Scams as Strategic Misrepresentation pp. 15-30

Jenna Burrell

Sustainability Failures of Rural Telecenters: Challenges from the Sustainable Access in Rural India (SARI) Project pp. 31-45

Michael L. Best and Rajendra Kumar

The Impact of Mobile Telephony on Developing Country Micro-Enterprise: A Nigerian Case Study pp. 47-65

Abi Jagun, Richard Heeks and Jason Whalley

ICT in Education Reform in Cambodia: Problems, Politics, and Policies Impacting Implementation pp. 67-82

Jayson W. Richardson

Volume 4, issue 3, 2008

Assessing the Impact of Public Access to ICTs pp. iii-iv

François Bar and Michael L. Best

The Next Decade of ICT Development: Access, Applications, and the Forces of Convergence pp. 1-6

Mohsen Khalil and Charles Kenny

User-Centered Design Considered Harmful pp. 7-12

Andy Dearden

Female Empowerment and Development in Latin America: Use Versus Production of Information and Communications Technology pp. 13-20

Mary Jane C. Parmentier and Sophia Huyer

The Impact of the Internet on Local Social Equity: A Study of a Telecenter in Aguablanca, Colombia pp. 21-38

Sarah Parkinson and Allan C. Lauzon

The Institutional Framework of the United Nations Development Programme-Ministry of Science and Technology (UNDP-MoST) Telecenter Project in Rural China pp. 39-55

Chunbo Zhang

Using Diffusion of Innovations Framework to Explain Communal Computing Facilities Adoption Among the Urban Poor pp. 57-73

Wallace Chigona and Paul Licker

Teaching Globalization, Globally: A 7-Year Case Study of South Africa-U.S. Virtual Teams pp. 75-88

Derrick L. Cogburn and Nanette S. Levinson

Internet Presence as Knowledge Capacity: The Case of Research in Information and Communication Technology Infrastructure Reform pp. 89-96

Sujata Gamage and Rohan Samarajiva

Volume 4, issue 2, 2008

Editorial pp. iii-iv

Ernest J. Wilson, Michael L. Best and François Bar

Women's Empowerment and the Information Society pp. 1-2

Sylvia Maier

Transforming Opportunities for Women Entrepreneurs pp. 3-10

Janice Brodman and Julia Berazneva

Putting ICTs In the Hands of the Women of Kanpur and the Chikan Embroidery Workers of Lucknow pp. 11-16

Chetan Sharma, Sarita Sharma and Ujjwala Subhedar

Empowering Women Weavers? The Internet in Rural Morocco pp. 17-23

Susan Schaefer Davis

Women and Gender in ICT Statistics and Indicators for Development pp. 25-41

Nancy J. Hafkin and Sophia Huyer

Empowering Women Through ICT-Based Business Initiatives: An Overview of Best Practices in E-Commerce/E-Retailing Projects pp. 43-60

Sylvia Maier and Usha Nair-Reichert

Are All American Women Making Progress Online? African-Americans and Latinas pp. 61-88

Caroline Tolbert, Karen Mossberger, Bridgett King and Gena L. Miller

Empowerment Zones? Women, Internet Cafés, and Life Transformations in Egypt pp. 89-104

Deborah L. Wheeler

Volume 4, issue 1, 2007

Real Synthetic Scholarship pp. iii-iv

Michael L. Best and Ernest J. Wilson

An Introduction to the Best ICTD 2006 Conference Papers pp. 1-3

Kentaro Toyama, Raj Reddy and Anna Saxenian

Mobile Phones and Economic Development: Evidence From the Fishing Industry in India pp. 5-17

Reuben Abraham

E-Governance Services Through Telecenters: The Role of Human Intermediary and Issues of Trust pp. 19-35

Kiran Gopakumar Rajalekshmi

Text-Free User Interfaces for Illiterate and Semiliterate Users pp. 37-50

Indrani Medhi, Aman Sagar and Kentaro Toyama

COMMONSense Net: A Wireless Sensor Network for Resource-Poor Agriculture in the Semiarid Areas of Developing Countries pp. 51-67

Jacques Panchard, Seshagiri Rao, Prabhakar T. V., Jean-Pierre Hubaux and H. S. Jamadagni

Speech Interfaces for Equitable Access to Information Technology pp. 69-86

Madeline Plauché and Udhyakumar Nallasamy

ICT Usage and Its Impact on Profitability of SMEs in 13 African Countries pp. 87-100

Steve Esselaar, Christoph Stork, Ali Ndiwalana and Mariama Deen-Swarray

Changed Governance or Computerized Governance? Computerized Property Transfer Processes in Tamil Nadu, India pp. 101-112

Radha Vasudevan

The Livestock Guru: The Design and Testing of a Tool for Knowledge Transfer among the Poor pp. 113-121

Claire Heffernan and Louise Nielsen

Volume 3, issue 4, 2007

The Lost Sheep of ICT4D Literature pp. 1-8

Gerard C. Raiti

From Telex to eGovernment: The Birth of eRwanda pp. 9-13

Arleen Cannata Seed

Great Media and Communication Debates: WSIS and the MacBride Report pp. 15-36

Robin Mansell and Kaarle Nordenstreng

Glamour and Honor: Going Online and Reading in West African Culture pp. 37-52

Wendy Griswold, Erin Metz McDonnell and Terence Emmett McDonnell

The Triumphant Consumer? VoIP, "Little Smart," and Telecom Service Reform in China pp. 53-66

Irene Wu

'I Don't Trust the Phone; It Always Lies': Trust and Information and Communication Technologies in Tanzanian Micro- and Small Enterprises pp. 67-83

Thomas Molony

Volume 3, issue 3, 2007

Using Stakeholder Theory to Analyze Telecenter Projects pp. 61-80

Savita Bailur

Volume 3, issue 2, 2007

The Road to Broadband Development in Developing Countries Is through Competition Driven by Wireless and Internet Telephony pp. 21-39

Francisco J. Proenza

Volume 3, issue 1, 2006

Editorial pp. iii-iv

Michael L. Best and Ernest J. Wilson

Imperatives of Free and Open Source Software in Cuban Development pp. 1-17

Alexeis Garcia-Perez, Dr. Amit Mitra and Alfredo Somoza-Moreno

Broadcasting in Developing Countries: Elements of a Conceptual Framework for Reform pp. 19-37

Carter Eltzroth

Can Information and Communication Technologies Make a Difference in the Development of Transition Economies? pp. 39-53

Marcin Piątkowski

Scientific Measure of Africa's Connectivity pp. 55-64

M. Zennaro, E. Canessa, K. R. Sreenivasan, A. A. Rehmatullah and R. L. Cottrell

Volume 2, issue 4, 2005

A Closing Window of Opportunity: Under-Serviced Area Licensing in South Africa pp. 1-19

Alison Gillwald

From Public Loudspeakers to the Internet: The Adoption of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) by Small Enterprise Clusters in Vietnam pp. 21-39

Dimitrios Konstadakopulos

A Model of How Children Acquire Computing Skills from Hole-in-the-Wall Computers in Public Places pp. 41-60

Ritu Dangwal, Swati Jha, Shiffon Chatterjee and Sugata Mitra

A Framework for Developing Regional E-Government Capacity Building Networks pp. 61-73

Luiz Antonio Joia

FDI Variations in Emerging Markets: The Role of Credible Commitments-With Special Reference to Asia pp. 75-87

J. P. Singh

Engaged Scholars and Thoughtful Practitioners: Enhancing Their Dialogue in the Knowledge Society pp. 89-92

Ernest J. Wilson

Volume 2, issue 3, 2005

Moving Beyond "The Real Digital Divide" pp. iii-v

Ernest J. Wilson, Michael L. Best and Dorothea Kleine

Negotiating the Net: The Internet in South Africa (1990-2003) pp. 1-28

Charley Lewis

The Persistence of Traditional Gender Roles in the Information Technology Sector: A Study of Female Engineers in India pp. 29-46

Reena Patel and Mary Jane C. Parmentier

Wireless Networks and Rural Development: Opportunities for Latin America pp. 47-56

Hernan Galperin

Telecommunications, Public Health, and Demand for Health-Related Information and Infrastructure pp. 57-72

Maja Micevska

License-Exempt Wireless Policy: Results of an African Survey pp. 73-90

Isabel Neto, Michael L. Best and Sharon E. Gillett

Volume 2, issue 2, 2004

Creating Necessary Knowledge pp. iii-v

Ernest J. Wilson and Michael L. Best

Measuring the Contribution of Infoplazas to Internet Penetration and Use in Panama pp. 1-23

Norma L. Miller

Empowerment and Participatory Geographic Information and Multimedia Systems: Observations from Two Communities in Indonesia pp. 25-44

Jon M. Corbett and C. Peter Keller

Leveraging the Open Source Software Movement for Development of China's Software Industry pp. 45-63

Mingzhi Li, Zhangxi Lin and Mu Xia

Electronic Government and the Rural Poor: The Case of Gyandoot pp. 65-75

Simone Cecchini and Monica Raina

Information Needs Assessment Model for Identifying Information Needs of Rural Communities pp. 77-78

Anjali Dhingra and D. C. Misra

Volume 2, issue 1, 2004

Microentrepreneurs and Mobiles: An Exploration of the Uses of Mobile Phones by Small Business Owners in Rwanda pp. 1-21

Jonathan Donner

Reading Out of the "Idiot Box": Same-Language Subtitling on Television in India pp. 23-44

Brij Kothari, Avinash Pandey and Amita R. Chudgar

eChoupals: A Study on the Financial Sustainability of Village Internet Centers in Rural Madhya Pradesh pp. 45-73

Richa Kumar

ICT Development in North Korea: Changes and Challenges pp. 75-87

Heejin Lee and Jaeho Hwang

Maturation Stage of eCommerce in Developing Countries: A Survey of South African Companies pp. 89-98

Alemayehu Molla and Paul S. Licker