Digital Development

 Photo © Julia Bucknall/World Bank The Gulf News is reporting that oil-rich United Arab Emirates is among the few developing countries to host a major international organization. Abu Dhabi will be…

What's peripheral? In the case of the use of technology in schools around the world, it is becoming increasingly hard to tell. In many developing countries, for better and/or for worse, the…

One message that is heard consistently at many ICT4D gatherings is that 'we have too many pilot projects', and that this is especially true for the education sector. 'What we need…

My good friend and predecessor John Page gave a provocative seminar with the title of this post the other day. His main point, echoed in this year’s

infoDev and UNESCO have teamed up to sponsor a series of monthly on-line discussions on low-cost ICT initiatives for educational systems in developing countries.  The debate for June is titled…