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 Global Issues - Governance - ICTs for Development
ICTs for Development
There is a wide range of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and applications, from more traditional ones such as radio, television, and print media to more sophisticated and newer technologies and applications such as the Internet, information management, e-health, and e-business applications.
CIDA provides assistance in the
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This broad definition underscores the importance of considering both traditional and new technologies as a tool to help address developmental challenges that are dependent on a country’s or community’s distinctive set of challenges, needs, resources, and priorities and also to bring together groups of individuals—indigenous people, women, youth, and other thematic associations—when geographic distance and existence of physical and state boundaries make development collaboration difficult.
ICTs can be grouped into three principal categories:
- information technologies: computer hardware and peripherals, software, and computer literacy.
- telecommunication technologies: telephones systems, radio and television broadcasting, satellites, mobile telephony, and other broadband connectivity.
- networking technologies: the Internet and a broad array of Internet-based applications.
(Source: ICT Policy Handbook, Association for Progressive Communications, 2005)
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