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IFAD's Knowledgebase on Rural Poverty A useful collection of insight documents, initiatives, reports, case studies and news on a rich selection of topics related to rural poverty. Material ranges from climate change to rural finance, desertification, land issues and trade liberalisation, and is tackled from the perspective of a variety of sectors and actors (gender, indigenous peoples...) of the rural economy.
ICT4D - Free Softwares to download and consult material from this website A useful resource guide on what programs you may freely download from the net to read all types of files and stay connected to global knowledge
Inter Agency Conference on Local Economic Development The Inter-Agency Conference on Local Economic Development (LED) took place from 22 to 24 October 2008 at the ILO’s International Training Centre (ITC) in Turin, Italy. The conference was attended by some 130 participants from 50 countries and among these representatives from different United Nations agencies, bilateral development agencies, local governments, non-governmental organisations and indigenous peoples organisations
5th Annual United Nations' Web4Dev conference: Innovation for Access The Fifth Annual United Nations’ Web4Dev conference, hosted by UNICEF in 2009, will bring together global thought leaders and innovators from the United Nations, academia, the development and private sectors to focus on the importance of strategic partnerships, innovation and new technology for achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
Globalization, Local Development and Emerging Powers. The Role of Innovation Policies. The conference, organised by the Department of Economics of the University of Bologna, Italy, is intended to disentangle the role of innovation policies in exploring opportunities and threats posed by globalisation processes for local production systems, with particular reference to Emerging Powers (EPs). Deadline for papers to be submitted for discussion during the conference is Wednesday the 31st of December, 2008. Please refer to the .pdf in attachment for further information.
Information and Communication Technology for LED/ Tecnología de la Información y Comunicación para el DEL. In the course of the Inter-Agency Conference on Local Economic Development, held at the International Training Centre of the ILO in Turin, and dating 22-24 October 2008, one session was dedicated to the link between ICT and LED. In attachment you may find the outputs to the discussion as drafted by each expert.
ICT4LED The initiative for this blog was born out of a comment in a resource entry of the platform. We are living in the era of the Knowledge Economy, Information and Communication Technologies, ICTs for Development, User-Created Content, and infinite other codes that describe the phenomenon. But who benefits, and how? How can ICTs help institutions, students or entreprenueurs of young SMEs in remote places, what simpler techonologies can we turn into tools for success, what role for local governments in confronting the digital divide, etc?