Table of Contents

Features
Introduction to MDGs
Perspective
ICTs and the MDGs: On the wrong track?
Richard Heeks
Inter-city Marketing Network for Women Micro-entrepreneurs using cell phones
Social capital brings economic development
Loyola Joseph
Committee for Democracy in Information Technology (CDI)
From computer donations to poverty alleviation
ICT and poverty reduction
Think globally, act locally
Anuradha Dhar and Sejuti Sarkar De
Interview
Salil Shetty
Director, Millennium Campaign, UNDP

Columns
Editorial
On upscaling pro-poor ICT policies and practices
Chennai Statement
Insight
Saga of a rural Internet entrepreneur
Dipanjan Banerjee
A livelihood approach to communication and Information to reduce poverty
Disaster feature
ICTs: Essence of early warning systems
Tool for enhancing food security
ICT and agriculture in Africa
Glory Mushinge
Poverty Dossier
Understanding poverty
Naveen Kaul
What’s on
In fact
How is Asia progressing?
ICTD project newsletter
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What's On

Belgium
18-20 April, 2005
ISCRAM 2005: Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
Brussels
http://www.sckcen.be/iscram/

Bulgaria
22-23 April, 2005
WebTech 2005, Sofia
http://webtech2005.info

Canada
27 June-02 July, 2005
ED-MEDIA 2005, Montreal
http://www.aace.org

24-28 October, 2005
E-Learn 2005: World Conference on
e-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education
Vancouver, British Columbia
http://www.aace.org/conf/eLearn/call.htm

China
29 March–01 April, 2005
2005 IEEE International Conference
on e-Technology, e-Commerce and
e-Service, Hong Kong
http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~eee05/home/

India
03-04 March, 2005
Towards Building Communities of Practice (CoPs) for Achieving the MDGs
New Delhi
http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/101014?PrintableVersion=enabled

03-06 March, 2005
Baramati 2005
Baramati, Maharashtra
http://www.baramati.org/

Italy
11-15 July, 2005
OSS2005: International Conference
on Open Source Systems
Genova
http://oss2005.case.unibz.it/

Mozambique
10-11 May, 2005
3rd International Open Access
Conference
Maputo
http://www.wideopenaccess.net/

South Africa
02-04 March, 2005
ICTS and Civil Society
Conference
Johannesburg
http://www.radio.oneworld.net/article/view/76307/1

Spain
06-08 July, 2005
7th ISKO-Spain Conference
Barcelona
http://www.radio.oneworld.net/article/view/76307/1

Tunisia
16-18 November, 2005
WISIS: World Summit on the
Information Society
Phase 2
Tunis
http://www.itu.int/wsis/

The United Arab Emirates
05-06 April, 2005
Middle-East E-learning
Technology
Dubai
http://www.dubaimelt.com/

The United Kingdom
15-17 March, 2005
Newcom Africa
Chelsea Village
London
http://aitecafrica.com/events/2005/Newcomm/index.htm

04-06 April, 2005
LILAC 2005: Librarians’ Information
Literacy Annual Conference
London
http://lttg.lse.ac.uk/LILAC/default.asp

22-24 June 2005
First International Conference on
e-Social Science
Manchester
http://www.ncess.ac.uk/conference_05.htm

10-12 July, 2005
Euro Conference on Mobile Government
Sussex University
Brighton
http://www.icmg.mgovernment.org/europeanmg.htm

United States
01-05 March, 2005
SITE 2005
Phoenix
Arizona
http://www.site.aace.org/conf

14-17 March, 2005
The O’Reilly Emerging Technology
Conference (ETech)
San Diego
http://www.conferences.oreillynet.com/etech/

02-05 April, 2005
e-Learning 2005
Dallas
Texas
http://www.144.162.197.250eLearning 2005glance.htm

16 April, 2005
Grassroots Use of Technology
Boston
http://organizenow.net/conference05.html