ICT in poverty reduction

21.03.2005 A freely downloadable software package, the Dashboard of Sustainability, provides the complex relationships among social, economic and environmental issues through a graphical interface. The visual interface helps the decision-makers and other stakeholders in sustainable development in making informative decisions.

17.03.2005 Digital divide is not a problem in itself, but a symptom of deeper, more important divides: of income, development and literacy. Fewer people in poor countries than in rich ones own computers and have access to the internet simply because they are too poor, are illiterate, or have other more pressing concerns, such as food, health care and security.

09.03.2005 Celtel-Zambia has launched the provision of subsidised rural communities payphone services in partnership with PRONET and Computer connections.