Information and Communication Technologies for African Development, an Assessment of Progress and Challenges Ahead

Contains a series of papers that look at how information and communication technologies can be used to tackle development problems in Africa. The papers look at: background on ICT in Africa; ICT in service development; the UN ICT task force and ICT as an instrument to leverage the Millennium Development Goals; and more.

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This publication contains a series of papers that look at how information and communication technologies can be used to tackle development problems in Africa. The papers look at: background on ICT in Africa; and its current state; ICT in service development; the UN ICT task force and ICT as an instrument to leverage the Millennium Development Goals; the role of ICT in the African development agenda; regional ICT in Africa; Africa's digital rights and ways to bridge the digital divide.