| Final Project | IS3230 Wk10 | | ICT Development Index (IDI) | | Javier Feliciano Fady Girgius Christopher Penney Michael McClinton | 11/26/2012 | | The ICT Development Index (IDI) The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Development Index or IDI is a composite index combining 11 indicator into one benchmarks measure that serves to monitor and compare developments in ICT across many countries. Developed in the year 2008 by ITU was presented in
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the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Non-government aid is provided by NGOs e.g. Red Cross & world vision, usually through public donations. Australia’s government aid is administered by the Australian agency for International Development (AusAID). Each type of aid is focused on a slightly different area: bilateral aid is generally targeted towards health, education and training programs, technological support, building infrastructure, emergency food and basic supplies i.e.
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ICTs As Enablers of Development: A Microsoft White Paper December 2004 Executive Summary Information and communications technologies (ICTs) are transforming societies and fueling the growth of the global economy. Yet despite the broad potential of ICTs, their benefits have not been spread evenly. Indeed, using ICTs effectively to foster social inclusion and economic growth is among the key challenges facing policymakers today. As one of the world’s leading ICT firms, Microsoft brings
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3 Life after Burnham: Economic revival and the obstacles to sustainable development Investigating the factors that have led to significant underdevelopment in Guyana, what practical solutions can be suggested to help improve the economic and political performance of this state? Burnham’s death whilst undergoing throat surgery in 1985 brought a natural end to the PNC’s cooperative socialist regime; a regime that caused two decades of extreme terror and suffering to all in Guyana, as explored
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HAD ON DEVELOPMENT IN KENYA RESEARCH STUDIES MOD001774 SHIRLEY JONES SID 1223384 FACULTY OF HEALTH, SOCIAL CARE AND EDUCATION 2012/13 1 SID 1223384 ABSTRACT The aim of this study is to evaluate the impact of foreign aid on development in Kenya. The study will investigate the effect that foreign aid has had on development, appraising its benefits as well as exposing its shortcomings. Judging from the level of aid that the developing world receives and the economic development that
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encourage re-urbanisation UDCs (urban development corporations) Set up to regenerate areas that contained large amounts of derelict land. UDCs had power to acquire land, clear it and provide infrastructure; they were then to encourage the private sector to develop the area. The UDCs bought economic development to the areas they were set up in but local needs were often ignore by the outside investors who just ploughed in and did it their way. Subsequent developments have tried to take the needs of
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RURAL DEVELOPMENT CHUPICAL SHOLLAH MANUEL The term ‘community participation’ has recently come to play a central role in the discourse of rural development practitioners and policy makers. At the same time, people’s interpretations of the term and criticisms of other people’s interpretations have multiplied, and the intentions and results of much participation in practice have been questioned or even denounced (Booth, 2005) and Cornwall, 2004). Community participation as a methodology has become
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The idea of human development is found in the 1990s and this is a tradition of thought that is unashamed to call itself universalist when it comes to the basics of that we all need to live a “good life” and also we are unwilling to give up the belief of that we are all equally entitled to enjoy such things. Because of this idea and point of view, there comes a problem of poverty and global inequality. Sen is born in Bengal in 1993 and he has spend the larger part of his working life at institutions
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Personally I believe that urbanization is not a necessary and desirable aspect of development due to the fact that it results in the opposite effect being ‘crowded cities with slum conditions’, the exact opposite result of what the developing country aimed to achieve and this not being a necessary step towards the process of development. Modernization theorists, looking back to the model of the Western development, see the growth of cities as an essential part of economic growth. Cities provide
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International Development Law Introduction The USA perspective on five debates on International Development The aim of this introductory section of the paper is to highlight what position the United States of America have officially undertaken in international development assistance. As we will see, the international development law is a field whose borders are not clearly defined. International Development Law’s ( herein IDL) shades can be found in many fields such as International Economic Law
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