ICTs and Large-Scale Poverty Reduction. Lessons from Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean

ICTs and Large-Scale Poverty Reduction. Lessons from Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean

[2005] Hundreds of initiatives, projects and programmes around the globe are using ICT to help the up-scaling of poverty reduction efforts. But changes in technology and approaches happen extremely rapidly and it is difficult to condense common lessons.

This publication edited by the Swiss Development Cooperation and PANOS compiles state-of-the-art lessons on the topic of ICTs for poverty reduction, in different regions of the world. These discussion papers and lessons have been derived from various events and processes connected to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) of Tunis, November 16–18, 2005.