Information Society and Sustainable Development: Home Page

Resources and references:
(In process)

Some reading and references (Please help to round out)

This very rough and clearly incomplete preliminary listing of useful sources is to be developed for and, one would hope, by the group over the next weeks - so your suggestions are most welcome. In the meantime have a look. And while not all of these references specifically target transport or women specifically, almost all have much to offer on our topic. So if you do not know them, there are a valuable tool to getting a feel for the landscape out there.

Africa Pages - Margaret Grieco
Association for Progressive Communications (APC)
CYBER HOST: -The Budalangi Village Women Post Office Project, 2001
Bridging the Digital Divide, numerous references to women's needs, uses.
"Controlling the runaway horse: How will poor people gain access to crucial information and communication technologies" By Uday Mohan
GEM - Gender Evaluation Methodology for Internet and ICTs
Gender, new communication technologies and decentralised regional development planning, Margaret Grieco, Len Holmes and Jeff Turner, 1998 perspectives
Grameen Phone: The Village Phone program ICT for the social empowerment of the rural poor
Inclusion in the Transport Sector - World Bank
ICTs as Tools of Sustainable Development in the Cotahuasi Basin, Peru
The Internet and Poverty: real help or real hype?, Panos Foundation, 2003
One info centre in one village, 2004
Mobility is gender specific, EC 2001
Nabana: Empowering Women. Change Initiatives, Baduria, India
Poverty Alleviation and Information/communications Technologies, 2000
Promoting gender equality in transport, 2005
Rural Knowledge Centres-ICT for Poverty Eradication, 2002
Supporting Women's Use of Information Technologies for Sustainable Development, 1997
Transport and Society: contribution of the Oxford Transport Studies Unit, 2002
Women and Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), 1999
Women Take the ICT Leap, Video on Gender and Rural Development (Offers both high and low speed versions.) 2005
World Bank/Poverty Net on: "Information and Communication Technologies", 2005
Also: (to be integrated into above)
http://www.geocities.com/transport_and_society/ruralinclusion.html
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/mg294/maternalmortality.html
World Bank Reference here

ICT in the Hands of the Poor:

Empowering resource poor women to use ICTs, India
eNRICH: National Informatics Centre of India
Grameen Tele-center, Bangladesh
Jakan Community Multimedia Centre, Bhutan
Kothmale Internet Radio Station, Sri Lanka
Information Village Research Project (IVRP), Pondicherry, India
Reflect and ICTs , Uganda, Burundi and India.
Simputer
Smart Village Project, India
TARAHAAT
Uva Community Radio (UCR), Sri Lanka