Information and Communication Technologies for African Development: An Assessment of Progress and Challenges Ahead

By United Nations

This publication contains a series of papers that look at how information and communication technologies can be used to tackle development problems in Africa. The papers look at: background on ICT in Africa; and its current state; ICT in service development; the Un ICT task force and ICT as an instrument to leverage the Millennium Development Goals; the role of ICT in the African development agenda; regional ICT in Africa; Africa's digital rights and ways to bridge the digital divide.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9211045312
• ISBN13: 9789211045314
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: United Nations Publications
• Length: 416 Pages