In depth

24.02.2006 Over the last decade, there has been an ongoing debate regarding the role that Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) should play in development cooperation programs in general, and more speci.cally in support of poverty alleviation.

21.02.2006 Sobeih sets the context by explaining that Egypt has become one of the leaders in the technology sector across the Arab region.

21.02.2006 Mungai recommends a more significant consideration of environmental issues in the regional and national poverty reduction and ICT discussions in Kenya. Specifically, he recommends addressing poverty reduction as proposed in the
MDGs and resolutions of the WSSD.

21.02.2006 South Africa (SA) has a history of strong commitment to sustainable development. It is a signatory to the major international agreements such as Agenda 21 and the Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development, and has
entrenched the attendant themes and goals into its own policy frameworks.

20.02.2006 This article argues that collaborative partnerships, social network strategies and the building of social capital at the local level are key issues for the successful adoption of ICT for development. In this article, the authors describe two successful community ICT projects whose success depended on the use of a collaborative methodology involving universities, governments and communities.

17.02.2006 L.J.C. Autrey, S. Ramasamy and K.F. Ng Kee Kwong describe the achievements in the process of introducing precision farming technologies in Mauritius, and the challenges ahead.

17.02.2006 Small-scale coffee growers in the mountains of southern Colombia are capable farmers. They dream of better ways of growing their coffee and profiting from the increasing demand for specialty products. Thomas Oberthür explains how farmers, scientists, food processors and retailers are working together to develop high-quality that will fetch high market prices.

16.02.2006 Jon Howcroft looks at how GPS and GIS technology are helping to boost farm productivity, while minimizing damage to the environment in eastern Sudan

07.02.2006 Where communication facilities are available, the poor rapidly embrace them. Where schools offer courses in ICT or use ICT to make educational content more interesting, parents are often supportive since they see it as a source of upward mobility and recognise its potential to ensure more effective learning.

06.02.2006 This paper sets out to locate Mauritian SMEs in the present context of global competition and more particularly to identify the extent to which they have adopted ICTs as a tool to meet the challenges which they now face.