Final Report

Kenya - Country Study Final Report

Final Country Report - Tanzania

Final Country Report - Uganda

A review of the key opportunities and issues around rural telecommunications and universal access in developing countries.

An overview of TDG's approach to Multi-stakeholder Engagement for Rural Telecom - Powerpoint file (note that this may take a few minutes to load when you click on the attachment below).

Paper looks at practical approaches to planning and implementing knowledge management practices and tools. Prepared for the Electronic Networking in Rural Asia Pacific (ENRAP) project of the International Fund for Agricultural Development - www.enrap.org

The initiation of this database was supported by the World Bank under a contract to provide strategy recommendations for the African Connection Secretariat in 2000. This extensive inventory is now available on-line. Click here to access the database.

Don Richardson and Ricardo Ramirez went to Bangladesh to conduct a detailed case study of Grameen Telecom's Village Phone Programme which enables rural women to re-sell GSM cellular phone services in rural Bangladesh. The case study is now available online. The case study includes surveys of 300 potential phone users from 40 villages across Bangladesh, together with a collection of video footage interviews, in order to provide recommendations on the replicability of elements of this programme for poverty alleviation efforts.

Power point slides of the World Bank presentation.

Our line of an international forum on development communication, sponsored by The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and hosted by Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU).

This paper proposes a new evaluation framework to examine the extent to which Internet use by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) benefits the unconnected stakeholders that they serve.

Today GrameenPhone is a commercial operation providing cellular services in both urban and rural areas and already has 25,000 customers.

The “Telecentre in a Box” is a robust, user-friendly, “turnkey” configuration of several networked PCs providing a variety of Internet utilities/applications, instant access to practical e-commerce utilities, easy to use local administration tools, and globally accessible administration and information tracking tools (extremely useful for evaluation purposes). The “telecentre in a Box” is designed for installation and applications in rural areas of developing countries, and can be administered locally by people with basic computer skills.

Proceedings of a 1998 Conference, Don Snowden Program, University of Guelph

This Glossary has been created by the TeleCommons Development Group to help you navigate the brave new world of information technologies for rural telecom.

An assessment of customer use of an existing pilot system in the Wa region of Northwest Ghana.

Thirty-three non-governmental organisations (NGOs) with Internet connectivity are utilising the Internet for their daily operations.

The Internet is rapidly expanding in developing countries. This expansion is, however, largely an urban phenomenon.

This report, by Don Richardson, draws attention to rural development initiatives made possible through Internet services. It highlights specific strategy and action that the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) can adopt to insure that rural communities and rural stakeholders benefit from the wide variety of Internet initiatives being sponsored and funded by international development agencies and the private sector in developing countries.