Resource Links
Fostering Digital Inclusion Worldwide
Digital empowerment can help transform lives and livelihoods for the better. But, accelerating affordable Internet access for 50 percent of the world by 2015 requires a wealth of resources. Follow these links to learn more about how to help make it happen.
Global Organizations and Initiatives
- Academy for Educational Development
- Architecture for Humanity
- Ashoka
- Asia Foundation
- BRAC
- Bridges.org
- Camfed International
- CARE
- Carnegie Corporation
- Center for Global Development
- Clinton Global Initiative
- Community Informatics Research Network (CIRN)
- Creating Hope International
- The Digital Dividend Project
- Digital Solidarity Fund
- Dot-Com Alliance
- Escuela Nueva Foundation
- GAIN (Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition)
- Global Digital Solidarity Fund
- The Globus Alliance
- Grameen Bank
- Grameen Foundation
- Heartfile
- ICWFD: Excerpts from "Lost Studies in Education"
- Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D)
- Initiative for Global Development
- Institute for the Study of Digital Inclusion
- International Commission on Workforce Development
- International Medical Corps.
- International Rescue Committee
- International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
- Internet Access for Everyone (ITAFE)
- The Journal of Community Informatics
- The Internet Society
- Kiva.org
- Millennium Project
- Miracle Foundation
- NEPAD – New Partnership for Africa’s Development
- NextBillion.net
- Open Architecture Network
- Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD)
- PATH
- PEPFAR
- Rice University Connexions
- Room to Read
- Taking IT Global
- U.S. Chamber of Commerce
- United Nations
- United Nations Conference on Science and Technology for Development
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
- United Nations Information and Communication Technologies Task Force (ICTTF)
- Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG)
- The Rockefeller Foundation
- The World Bank
- World Economic Forum
- World Summit on the Information Society
- Worldchanging.com
Other Company Initiatives
- Alcatel-Lucent Digital Bridge Initiative
- Danone Institute International (Dannon)
- Dell
- Digital Opportunity Initiative (DOI)
- E-Bay
- First Mile Solutions
- Gyandoot Cybercafe Network in India
- HP
- Inveneo
- Lenovo
- Live, Learn & Thrive (P&G)
- Microsoft's Digital Inclusion Initiative
- Motorola
- Nokia
- Pioneer Hi-Bred International
- Sun Microsystems
- The TATA Group
- Virgin Green Fund
Books
- Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises
by Kate Stohr and Cameron Sinclair - The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits
by CK Prahalad - Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World by Bill Clinton
News Reports, White Papers and Case Studies
Seminars, Conferences & Events
U.S. Government Resources
Global IT Statistics
Regional Resources
Africa
Brazil
- Improving public internet access in Brazil: moving beyond connectivity...
- Oldnet Website
- The Internet in Brazil: From Digital Divide to Democracy? (PDF)
China
India
- Department of Information Technology
- Loreto Day School
- Ruchika Social Service Organization
- SEARCH
- The Internet in India and China
- U.S. Chamber of Commerce in India
Latin America and the Caribbean
Mexico
- Federal Telecommunications Commission
- Guides to doing business in Mexico
- Innovation Mexico
- Mexico Internet Society
- U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Mexico
Peru
Russia
South Africa
- South Africa, from Wikipedia
- South African Government Online
- The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD)
Sudan
United States
- DIT Funded Development Projects