ICT in poverty reduction

12.06.2006 Food aid in Niger arrived too late in 2005, despite widespread predictions that famine was imminent. The world has known for months that famine is also coming to southern Africa but policymakers are still not responding to the warnings. Read more about the importance of early warning in food security in Niger in the latest id21 insights.

12.06.2006 Recent developments in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) field are positively changing ways research is being done in the world and may be used to improve food distribution networks, development of population surveys and censuses and expansion of early warning systems in Africa.

12.06.2006 UK Department for International Development (DFID) has recently released the second Institutional Strategy between the Department and the UN World Food Programme (WFP). According to DFID, "the partnership is testament to the critical importance both organisations attach to reducing the rising number of people suffering from hunger and malnutrition."

12.06.2006 A large volume of rainfall data from various locations and an Australian Rainman software package enabled scientists at the Department of Agricultural Meteorology at the Directorate of Soil and Crop Management Studies at the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University to put together the seasonal rainfall forecast for the South West Monsoon.

12.06.2006 Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI), at a meeting under the chairmanship of its President M. A Momen held in the DCCI Auditorium on yesterday to review the Proposed National Budget, 2006-2007 welcomed the budget as a positive one to achieve the targets of SME development and poverty reduction as enshrined in the PRSP.

09.06.2006 Mountain Partnership e-consultation on 'Mountain to Mountain
Cooperation: Sustainable Use of Biodiversity, including Genetic Resources in the Andes and Himalaya will be held during 12-30 June 2006.

09.06.2006 This report aims to give an overview of what DAC members currently know about how Information and Communication Technology (ICT) use in developing economies can stimulate economic growth and poverty reduction.

09.06.2006 As school winds down for the summer, a new blog launched by WFP will keep kids active while giving them a chance to talk directly to aid workers battling on the frontline of some of the world’s hunger hotspots.

09.06.2006 48-year old Victor Codreanu once lost sleep thinking about how he would manage after retirement. But now his concerns have nearly vanished. "Even though retirement is still is a long way away, I do not worry because I know exactly what my pension will be, if I keep my current job and salary level," says Victor, who works in a factory in Ialoveni town.

09.06.2006 In pursuit of its commitment to combat desert encroachment, an NGO - Fight Against Desert Encroachment (FADE) has established three projects in Makoda Local Government Area of Kano State.

09.06.2006 The World Bank’s Board (International Development Association) has approved an investment grant of US$ 8 million for the Information and Communications Infrastructure Development Project (ICIDP).

09.06.2006 How much does the public know about the international trade agreements governments are negotiating on their behalf? Do ordinary people have any say in the decisions? The Doha talks on a new global trade deal in the World Trade Organization (WTO) have sparked tensions between governments.

07.06.2006 Many voices in the CGIAR are calling for a new emphasis in the work of the international agricultural research centers on knowledge sharing, learning, and innovation.

07.06.2006 This report presents an inventory of global data sources which can be used to provide consistent geospatial baselines for core framework data layers in the support of generalized base mapping, emergency preparedness and response, food security and poverty mapping.

07.06.2006 The Information Management Resource Kit (IMARK) is a comprehensive suite of distance learning resources for information management and exchange.

06.06.2006 TV audiences are fed up with the way the developing world is portrayed on the small screen, according to a new report.
Reflecting the real world?

06.06.2006 Dr. Ham-Mukasa Mulira, an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) expert has been appointed as the first minister to serve in a new ICT ministry.

06.06.2006 Pakistan government recently announced the highest ever Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) for financial year 2006-07 at Rs 435 billion (gross), with a federal share of Rs 320 billion and focus on infrastructure and social sector development.

05.06.2006 The Manilla-based Asian Development Bank (ADB) today announced its $20 million pact with the Republic of Korea that will help the Bank to assist its member countries to achieve MDGs with strategic uses of ICTs.

05.06.2006 The Ninth Malaysia Plan (9MP) targets the eradication of hardcore poverty by 2010 and reduction of overall poverty to 2.8% by the same year.