success stories

14.10.2003 In the latest of our BDO ICT Case Studies series, read how an Indian NGO has used a wireless communication system to improve the exchange of information and communication between isolated tribal communities and to increase their self-worth and confidence level.

26.09.2003 Slowly, but effectively, the Internet is empowering women in Africa to follow events as they have never witnessed before. The latest case in point is the women in Somalia who have been following their country's peace talks in neighbouring Kenya via the Internet.

19.09.2003 Until a year ago, some villagers in deep rural Limpopo had never seen a computer. Now their fingers fly across the keyboard. They are the members of the Mogalakwena Hewlett Packard i-community where villagers are being exposed to technology in a project initiated at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) a year ago.

12.09.2003 A combination of administrative reforms and information technology is marching hand-in-hand in several pockets of India including in some least developed regions like Jhalawar in Rajasthan. Kumar M Tiku narrates how seemingly non-descript Jan Mitra (friend of the public) village information ‘shops’ are bridging the chasm between local administration and villagers.

11.09.2003 An ICT project in southern India is empowering low-caste village women: helping them net information on everything from grain prices and cataract operations to the Iraq war, widening their horizon and winning them peer and social respect. Lalita Sridhar reports.

02.09.2003 Efforts to inform a broad mass of Africans of the dangers of HIV/AIDS through radio soap operas are beginning to have an impact, according to monitoring studies carried out at community clinics and letters from listeners.