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This Development Informatics Workshop paper by Richard Duncombe seeks to provide a contribution to theorising ICT and development by applying a 'livelihoods approach' as a suitable framework of analysis, taking rural micro-enterprise as an important potential area of ICT application in a developing country context.  The livelihoods framework has been…

Contents include: http://ictupdate.cta.int/en/(issue)/50 * The many uses of mobiles - Mobile phones are small, simple to operate devices that serve the basic human need to communicate. But they do much more than just help people to stay in touch... * An industry in development - In many ACP countries, mobile banking services…

A catalogue of SPREP Publications;  SPREP Library Documents and Journal Collections; and Pacific Environment Information Network Resources. http://www.sprep.org/publication/pub_top.asp

Contents include: http://ictupdate.cta.int/en/(issue)/42 * Logging the forest - The Mbendjele Pygmies of the Republic of Congo are working together with an international logging company to help protect their forest environment... * Saving traditions - The indigenous Ngalia people of Western Australia have adapted a wide variety of technologies in their fight to…

Contents include: http://ictupdate.cta.int/en/(issue)/52 * Farmers Teaching farmers - When researchers in Burkina Faso identified the best crop varieties for the Sissili region, a local organization, FEPPASI, introduced ICTs to inform farmers and explain new growing techniques... * Pastoralists picture land use - A team of researchers combine maps, satellite images…