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241.	ICT for mitigating HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa
	Tuesday, November 22, 2005  by Admin
	This study was carried out by Sida through a participatory approach where stakeholders, inovolved in the process of mitigating HIV/AIDS were asked for their experiences, views, suggetions and ideas on how ICT can be used to mitigate HIV/AIDS. Sida has been exploring opportunities for using ICT in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa.
242.	Statement by H.E. Prof. M. Mwandosya at the WSIS in Tunis
	Tuesday, November 22, 2005  by Admin
	The Second phase of the WSIS was held in Tunis between November 16th and 18th, 2005. This is a statement by H. E. Prof. Mark Mwandosya, Minister of Communications and Transport and Head of the Tanzania delegation to Tunis.
243.	Gender ICT: Issues, Implications & Opportunities (Summary of Online Discussions)
	Friday, October 28, 2005  by Admin
	The document presents a summary of the discussions in the online forum. The specific themes for the 3-month forum included: access to ICTs and their use; Information, technology and women empowerment; and Women's campaigns, networks, resources and repositories on ICT. An active discussion around the WSIS process transpired and is documented in the paper.
244.	Developing Womens ICT-Based Enterprise: Summary of an International Knowledge-Sharing Workshop
	Friday, October 28, 2005  by Admin
	This report presents the findings from an international workshop on Developing Womens ICT-Based Enterprise attended by 38 participants from South Asia, South-East Asia, Southern Africa, East Africa, Central America and the Caribbean. The report is divided into four main parts: An overview which describes the emerging reality of IT sector enterprises being run by women in developing countries which are delivering direct developmental benefits from use of ICTs; something that many e-development projects fail to do.
245.	Researching Womens ICT-Based Enterprise for Development
	Friday, October 28, 2005  by Admin
	This paper is for people interested in researching womens ICT-based enterprises in developing countries. It will also be of value to those researching women and ICTs or ICT enterprises and development more generally. The paper reports on, and draws lessons from, one projects experiences in researching a group of ICT-based enterprises (mainly doing data entry, IT training, and hardware assembly work) run by cooperatives of poor women in Kerala state, India.
246.	ICT 4 all Exhibition, Tunis, 15-19 November 2005 Exhibitor list
	Friday, October 28, 2005  by Admin
	National Pavilion, Development and partnership, e solution,
247.	Internet Governance: A Review in the Context of the WSIS Process
	Friday, October 28, 2005  by Admin
	In the recent discussion process on Internet governance, stimulated since the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) meeting in Geneva by the creation of the Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG)2, visions of what governance of the network of networks logical infrastructure3 ought to be kept floating between two polar views: on the one hand, Icannians4 insist that, if there is something which needs to be fixed, it can be done within the current structure, which they like to characterize as private sector based.
248.	Researching ICT-Based Enterprise for Women in Developing Countries: A Gender Perspective
	Friday, October 28, 2005  by Admin
	Much development work has been channelled into ICT projects and the development of ICT-based enterprises can be an effective component of such projects, including ICT-based enterprises for women. Although there is evidence to suggest that globalisation has given some employment opportunity to skilled and educated women, the general impact of globalisation on the gender division of labour in developing countries has been negative. Women continue to be assigned those jobs with the least skilled level of work and lowest remuneration (Hafkin and Taggart 2001, Randriamaro 2002).
249.	Information, Technology and Small Enterprise
	Friday, October 28, 2005  by Admin
	This handbook is for staff in agencies that support the development of small, medium and micro-enterprises in developing countries (DCs).It aims to provide those staff with a better understanding of the role of information and of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in enterprise development. The handbook will also be of value to staff in donor agencies, government departments and professional business associations, and to researchers and students dealing with ICTs, with enterprise, and with development.
250.	eCommerce for Small Enterprise Development: handbook
	Friday, October 28, 2005  by Admin
	This handbook is designed for agencies that are supporting entrepreneurs running micro and small-scale enterprises (MSEs) in developing countries. It is designed for agencies that have little current involvement in eCommerce support and have little knowledge of what is involved, as well as for more experienced agencies that are already using information and communication technologies (ICTs) – computers, email, the Internet, mobile phones, etc – or supporting their use in small enterprise. If your agency wishes to raise its level of support and involvement in eCommerce, then this handbook will be of use to you.
251.	Some thoughts on gender and telecommunications/ICT statistics and indicators
	Friday, October 28, 2005  by Admin
	The paper emphasises the importance of gender disaggregated statistics and indicators in informing national and global ICT policies. Specifically, areas such as access and usage, content, employment, education, ICT telecommunication and policy, representation in decision-making, and differential impact of ICTs forTo inform policy: without data, there is no visibility The major reason for collecting and disseminating ICT and telecommunications statistics and indicators by gender is to inform national policy and to set international policy goa ls.
252.	Exploring the Reality of eCommerce Benefits Among Businesses in a Developing Country
	Friday, October 28, 2005  by Admin
	The use of e-commerce by businesses in developing countries is related to the potential benefits of participating in international value chains, increasing market access and reach, improving internal and market efficiency, and lowering transaction costs. Belief in such benefits has led to the adoption of e-commerce by some businesses in these countries.
253.	The Impact of eReadiness on eCommerce Success in Developing Countries
	Friday, October 28, 2005  by Admin
	The Impact of eReadiness on eCommerce Success in Developing Countries: Firm-Level Evidence: This paper explores the organisational and environmental e-readiness variables that might affect e-commerce success in developing countries. Data are extracted from a survey of business organisations conducted in South Africa. Cluster, discriminant function and canonical correlation analysis are used to analyse the data.
254.	Gender, ICT and... ostrich eggs GRACE, an African ICT Research Network
	Friday, October 28, 2005  by Admin
	What do ostrich eggs, free attitudes, ICT and graciousness have in common. An exciting new research initiative that brings together African researchers to study Africa, ICTs and womens empowerment, called GRACE. The Gender Research in Africa into ICTs for Empowerment held its first researcher capacity-building workshop in Durban in July 2005, and while researchers from all over the continent honed their project proposals and fine-tuned networking skills, they also learned how to create ostrich eggs around themselves.
255.	Analysing eCommerce for Development
	Friday, October 28, 2005  by Admin
	eCommerce is spreading rapidly. World-wide, more than US$1 trillion-worth of goods and services are likely to be traded electronically by 2003, covering b2c (business to consumer) and the far larger b2b (business to business). In the North, impacts on both business and trade have been uneven but rapid, particularly in certain sectors. Possibilities exist for both existing enterprises and new entrants: new supply-chain models are emerging around both disintermediation and reintermediation of existing firms (Markus 2000).
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