1. Information and
communications
technologies (ICTs)
for Development
A course prepared for students of
Engineering & Conception of Information Systems
National School of Applied Sciences – Safi
School-Year 2013/2014
- By Redouane BOULGUID

2. 
Years ago, a broad international
consensus has emerged that
information and communications
technologies (ICTs) offer a potentially
powerful mechanism for promoting
social and economic growth.
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3. ICTs For Development
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Generally, ICTs promote development
across many dimensions.
ICTs enable organizations to be more
productive.
thereby spurring economic growth and
helping firms be more competitive.
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4. 
ICTs can also expand the reach and
effectiveness of social development
projects and have already yielded
important benefits in such areas as
healthcare, education, and
environmental preservation.
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5. 
Public-sector uptake of ICTs is also
making governments more efficient and
their decision-making more transparent.
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6. 
Several recent studies have described
remarkable success in using ICTs to
help underserved communities and to
create new opportunities in developing
countries.
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7. 
As an example, Microsoft , is
dedicated to working closely with
underserved peoples, developing
countries, and the broader international
development community to realize the
full potential of ICTs for human
development.
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8. 
Because ICTs can be applied to a
tremendously diverse range of human
experience, they are transforming virtually
every sector of society and the economy.
Digital breakthroughs are creating new
possibilities for improving health and nutrition,
expanding knowledge, stimulating economic
growth and empowering people to participate
in their communities.
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9. 
As many developing nations have
recognized, ICTs have the potential to
spur local economic growth and to
expand the reach and effectiveness of
development initiatives.
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the information age: the rich get their
information almost free,
while the poor have to pay dearly for it,
(in the case for instance of the price
poor people have to pay to make a
simple telephone call).
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The system has a concurrent capacity
to include and exclude people based
upon a capacity to network,
and this is where the poor in developing
countries suffer from exclusion. ( Digital
Divide)
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12. 
Human Development is the process of
expanding human capabilities and
access to opportunities in social,
economic and political arenas and
therefore the overall improvement in the
quality of life. (UNDP 2002: Kenya
Human Development Report: 2001:2 )
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13. 
There is a connection between ICTs
and the human development
dimensions of agriculture, culture,
governance, education, health and
gender.
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14. 
Poverty is widely recognised as
multidimensional, encompassing food
security, health, education, rights,
security and dignity, among other
elements.
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15. ICT & POVERTY
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By definition, ICTs include electronic
networks – embodying complex
hardware and software - linked by a
vast array of technical protocols
(Mansell and Silverstone, 1996).
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16. 
ICTs are embedded in networks and
services that affect the local and global
accumulation and flows of public and
private knowledge.
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17. 
According to the United Nations Economic
Commission for Africa, ICTs cover Internet
service provision, telecommunications
equipment and services, information
technology equipment and services, media
and broadcasting, libraries and
documentation centres, commercial
information providers, network-based
information services, and other related
information and communication activities.
(ECA, 1999).
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18. 
Most arguments related to poverty
focus on insufficient nutrition,
inadequate shelter and so on. It is only
recently that some have started to
argue that lack of access to information
and communications technologies
(ICTs) is an element of poverty. (Kenny,
2001)
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19. 
Therefore, if properly deployed, ICTs
have enormous potential as tools for
increasing information flows and for
empowering poor people.
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20. 
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ICTs are a means or mechanism that
can make a significant contribution to
the fight for poverty reduction.
ICTs cannot solve poverty on their own,
but they can make a contribution to the
processes that lead to achieving the
Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs).
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21. What are the MDGs
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The Millennium Development Goals are
8 International development goals that
were established following the
Millennium Summit of the United
Nations in 2000.(Adoption of the UN
Millennium Declaration).
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All 189 UN member states at that time
(there are currently 193) & at least 23
International Organizations committed
to help achieve these Goals by 2015:
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23. 1. To eradicate extreme poverty &
hunger;
2. To achieve universal primary
education;
3. To promote gender equality &
empowering women;
4. To reduce child mortality rates;
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24. 5. To improve maternal health;
6. To combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria & other
Diseases;
7. To ensure environmental sustainability;
8. To develop a global partnership for
development.
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25. 
(To Be Continued)
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26. References Used
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ICTs and Poverty: A Literature Review, by C. Nyaki
Adeya, PhD. (
http://kambing.ui.ac.id/onnopurbo/library/library-ref-eng/r
)
GOOD PRACTICE PAPER ON ICTs FOR
ECONOMIC GROWTH AND POVERTY
REDUCTION – OECD 2005
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