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Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) can help meet development objectives, in particular international development goals for poverty reduction, education, health and environment (www.oecd.org/dac/ict).

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		Leveraging Telecommunications Policies for Pro-Poor Growth: Universal Access Funds with Minimum-Subsidy Auctions (PDF, 344 KB, English)
		17-Nov-2004
		This report aims to help aid agencies and other international partners assess the opportunity and risks of involvement in Universal Access policy/Universal Access funds to extend telecommunications services to the rural poor.


		Role of Infrastructure in Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction -- Lessons learned from PRSPs of 33 Countries
		17-Nov-2004
		As Poverty Reduction Stragegy Papers (PRSPs) are the driving force behind the orverall development strategy of many developing countries, it is essential to consider the role of instracture in this important poverty reduction process.


		GrameenPhone Revisited: Investors Reaching Out to the Poor (PDF, 241KB, English)
		06-Sep-2004
		GrameenPhone is a joint-venture telecom company set up in Bangladesh by Grameen Bank – with capital from the Norwegian company Telenor and loans from donors – to provide mobile telephony to its subscribers. Its "Village Phone Programme" provides a remarkable example of how innovative private-sector initiatives can work to stimulate development even in conditions of considerable poverty.


		Policy Brief "ICTs and Development Programmes" now available in French (PDF, 344KB, French)
		07-Sep-2004
		Information and communication technologies (ICTs) can play a key role in development and poverty reduction.


		ICTs and Economic Growth: The OECD Experience and Beyond (Order Your Free CD-Rom)
		27-Aug-2004
		It is important that economic policy take the full potential of ICTs into account. In this respect, the OECD and other organisations have performed extensive statistical, analytical and benchmarking work on the role of ICTs in economic growth to help inform good policy-making. This CD-ROM presents a collection of this body of work as a “toolkit”.


		Building Trust Online (Order Your Free CD-Rom)
		02-Sep-2004
		This CD-ROM includes the work of the OECD on trust agenda of the information society in three areas: Information Security; Privacy Protection and Consumer Protection. All the related OECD guidelines are included.