Tips for Coders

 

This document contains some links that would help start you out with a casual surf for new content, and a series of subject keywords that are mostly likely to produce good results whenever you find a search engine.

 

Website Sources

1.           InfoDev World Bank à http://www.infodev.org/

2.           World Resources Institute à http://www.wri.org/

3.           Digital Dividend Project à http://www.digitaldividend.org/

4.           Digital Opportunity Initiative à http://www.opt-init.org/

5.           United Nations ICT Task Force à http://www.unicttf.org/

6.           United Nations Development Program à http://www.undp.org/

7.           International Development Research Center à http://www.idrc.ca/

8.           Development Initiative à http://www.devinit.org/aboutdi.htm

9.           Digital Opportunity Channel à http://www.digitalopportunity.org/

10.       Community Technology Centers Network à http://www.ctcnet.org/

11.       Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development à http://www.oecd.org/

12.       Communications Initiative à http://www.comminit.com/idmatewa/sld-6156.html

13.       Organization of American States à http://www.oas.org/

14.       Inter-American Development Bank à http://www.ibrd.org/

15.       Development Gateway à http://www.developmentgateway.org/

16.       Somos@telecentros.org à http://www.tele-centros.org/

17.       International Telecommunications Union à http://www.itu.org/

18.       Intermediate Technology Development Group à http://www.itdg.org/

19.       One World International Network à http://www.oneworld.net/

20.       Digital Divide Network à http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org/

21.       Library on Grey literature à http://www.csulb.edu/library/subj/gray_literature/

22.       Development Experience Clearing House à http://www.dec.org/

23.    ICT for development à www.eldis.org, the address www.eldis.org/ict/weblinks.htm is a collection of websites with ICT.

 

Academic Sources

Journal for Development Communication (available at UW)

Journal for Information Technologies and International Development (available at UW)

Journal for International Communications (available at UW)

Journal of the Information Society (available at UW)

New Media and Society (available at UW)

 

Library Pages With Resources

UW Library Page for Com300

UW Library Page for CAICT

Library on Grey Literature

 

Sample Keywords

 

Broadband

ICT and Women

Regulation

Communication Technology

ICT for Development

Studies

Communications and Development

ICT Policy

Telecenters

Computer Industry

Information Kiosks

Telecommunication

Cultural Change

information Technology

Telecommunications Industry

Developing Countries

International

Telecommunications Policy

Development

Internet Access

Telecommunications Systems

Digital Divide

Internet and Development

Universal Access

Digital Dividend

Internet Service Providers

Wireless Communications

Electronic Commerce

Internet Telephony

Wireless Networks

Emerging Markets

LDCs

 

Growth Industries

Market Potential

 

High Tech Industries

Networking for Development

 

ICT

Open Source Software

 

ICT and Microfinance

Popular Culture