IT for Change

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1. Which stakeholder category do you belong to?

NGO – in Special Consultative Status with UN ECOSOC

2. What do you think is the significance, purpose and scope of enhanced…

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ICTs for empowerment and social transformation

A brief exploration of the field

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In May, 2013 IT for Change was approached by the global NGO Action Aid to generate think pieces on the subject of the role of ICTs in development. After a month of online discussion involving ActionAid staff and some outside experts on the subject of 'progressive engagement with ICTD', IT for Change submitted an initial draft…

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Short Description: The Kutch Nav Nirman Abhiyan (http://www.kutchabhiyan.org/) has managed a fine balance between the twin imperatives of standardisation and contextualisation that any large scale developmental…

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Short description: Since 2004, Chhattisgarh has been investing in measures to revive the Public Distribution System (PDS) in the state, including measures that involve ICTs. Right now,Chhattisgarh has become one of the model…

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Short description: Lokvani (http://sitapur.nic.in/lokvani) is an e-governance initiative that attempts to reduce citizens' travel to government offices for accessing information, entitlement processing and grievance redressal.

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Short Description: Ente Gramam is a project of the Kerala State IT Mission under which community web portals, with contextually appropriate, locally generated content, have been developed in over 100 Gram Panchayats and 10…

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Context: Since independence it has been the hope and expectation that the country's youth shall show a spirit of community-orientation and volunteerism towards the difficult task of…

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Context: Decentralisation has been…