Tag Archives: DFID
How to make ICT4D partnerships better deliver real development impacts
The ICT4D Collective hosted a workshop at the WSIS Forum in Geneva today on the key factors colleagues considered to be necessary to overcome four of the most important problems in delivering effective ICT4D partnerships. The idea for the workshop … Continue reading
Filed under ICT4D
Important new report on the impact of ICT4D partnerships on development
Together with Marije Geldof, David Grimshaw and Dorothea Kleine from the ICT4D Collective, I have just completed a DFID funded systematic review on the development impact of ICT4D partnerships. This is part of the extensive programme of systematic reviews initiated … Continue reading
Filed under Development, ICT4D
Fake Aid: a critique of DFID’s rights based approach to development funding
The International Policy Network has recently published a damning critique of rights-based approaches to development, particularly as represented in the funding decisions of the UK’s Department for International Development. Fake Aid concludes that: ‘The value of DfID’s ideological rights-based approach … Continue reading
