ICT for Poverty Reduction in Asia
by Stuart Mathison, The Foundation for Development Cooperation
Copyright: Global Knowledge Partnership (March 2003)
Acknowledgements:
Digital_Dividends_for_the_Poor.pdfThe first draft of this study was based on research by Partha P.Sarker of Bytes for All, Bangladesh, for the Global KnowledgePartnership (GKP). The research was compiled together with an editedversion of proceedings of the GKP workshop 'Reducing Poverty,Empowering People and Improving Lives' (Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, 5 June2002. The workshop was held in conjunction with Infosoc Malaysia 2002.Key workshop presentations on which the first draft is based, are by:
- Asian Development Bank (ADB), Philippines.
- Asia Pacific Development Information Programme (APDIP), Malaysia.
- P.Marker, K.McNamara and L.Wallace, Department for International Development, UK.
- M.Quibria and T.Tschang, Asian Development Bank Institute, Japan.
- S.C. Sia, Beautiful Gate, Malaysia.
The first draft was reviewed by a number of ICT and Poverty experts, including:
- Lim Teck Ghee (Regional Adviser on Poverty Alleviation and Social Integration, ESCAP)
- Miles Litvinoff (Governance Manager, OneWorld International)
- Stuart Mathison (Research Officer, Foundation for Development Cooperation)
- Mohsen Tawfik (Director, UNESCO Asia-Pacific Bureau for Communication & Information)
- Harry De Backer (ICT Adviser, DG Development, European Commission)
- Amos Tincani (ICT Adviser, DG Development, European Commission)
- Keith Yeomans (Department for International Development, UK)
Comments and suggestions made by the above panel were incorporated into the current draft of the study.
The author also wishes to acknowledge with gratitude thecontribution of representatives of each of the case studies included inthis report, as well as the many other initiatives that responded to apreliminary questionnaire.
