The Digital Pulse: Current and Future Applications of Information and Communication Technologies for Developmental Health Priorities

A report published by The Communication Initiative

By Warren Feek of The Communication Initiative with substantial support and guidance from Greg Long.

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Chapter 2 - ICT for Development: A Review of Current Thinking

Section 1: The ICT4D Proponents

• Empowerment and Governance through Information and Communication Technologies: Women's Perspectives
• Public Computer and Communications Centre (PC3) Project (Chap. 4) Bulgaria
• Graemeen Telecom's Village Phone (VP) Programme: A Multi-Media Case Study TeleCommons Development Group
• NGOs and the Internet in Nepal
• Djibouti ICT Strategy
• ICT and the Environment: Friends or Foes
• Heralding ICT enabled Knowledge Societies
• Enabling Environments for Social Accountability and Public Voice through Community Radio: A Learning and Capacity Building Initiative of the Civic Engagement and Participation Group
• Information Program, Conceptual Map: Open Society Institute (OSI)
• Information Program, Strategy: Open Society Institute (OSI)
• DEEP Impact: Teachers and Technology
• Understanding community health care: Implications for technology design
• ICT and Ensuring Environmental Sustainability
• The Chicken, the Egg, and African Telecommunications
• Women, Men and ICTs in Africa: Why Gender Is an Issue

Section 2: The ICT4D Detractors

• Take Five: A Handful of Essential for ICTs in Development
• ICT and Poverty: The San Bushmen
• Information Monopolies and the WTO
• The Impact of Democratic Deficits on Electronic Media in Rural Development
• The Internet: Towards a Deeper Critique
• Bridges Across Disciplines
• Pro-Poor and Gender Sensitive Information Technology: Policy and Practice
• i-Development Not e-Development
• Knowledge Facts, Knowledge Fiction: The Role of ICTs in Knowledge Management for Development
• Failure, Success and Improvisation of Information Systems Projects in Developing Countries

Section 3: The Middle Road

• Themes and Issues In Telecentre Sustainability: Development Informatics - Working Paper No. 10
• See No Evil: How Internet Filters Affect the Search for Online Health Information
• Shouting To Be Heard: Public Service Advertising in a New Media Age
• Participatory Rural Communication Appraisal (PRCA)
• Discovering the “Magic Box”: Local Appropriation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)
• HIV/AIDS and Information and Communication Technologies
• Health, HIV/AIDS and ICT: A Needs Assessment
• Can Information and Communications Technology Applications Contribute to Poverty Reduction? Lessons from Rural India
• The African Internet: Impact, Winners and Losers
• Reflect and ICTs: Project Summary and Concept Paper
• Generation Rx.com: How Young People Use the Internet for Health Information
• Radio and the Internet: Mixing Media to Bridge the Divide
• Missing the Connection? Using ICTs in Education
• Increasing the Relevance of ICT for Development

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Chapter 3 - Programme Experiences: Sixty Case Studies Of ICT Usage In Developmental Health

Section 1: Data Bases and Resource Centres

• Communications for Better Health (CBH) Programme
• AIDS Documentation and Information Centre (Centro de Documentación e Información en SIDA) - Honduras
• AIDS Resource Center (ARC) - Ethiopia
• Health Informatics Section (HIS)
• Disability Information System
• eTALC
• Internet Pathology Suite (iPath)
• Mapping Malaria Risk in Africa / Atlas du Risque de la Malaria en Afrique (MARA/ARMA)
• Malaria: An Online Resource and CDROM
• Healthlink Worldwide

Section 2: Social Development, Education, And Advocacy

• Healthy Russia 2020
• "Keep Your Head, Wear Your Helmet" Campaign
• OneWorld Radio AIDS Network
• Centre 4 TV Medical Drama
• Internet-Based Tobacco Control Network - Czech Republic
• Treat Your Workers Campaign
• WASH Campaign
• AIDSMark
• AIDSWEB Project
• Auntie Stella Project
• Positive Lives, Positive Responses to HIV
• Oral Rehydration Therapy Awareness Programme - India
• loveLife - South Africa
• Africa Learning Channel
• Reflect and ICT
• Healthworks Radio
• The Massive Effort Campaign
• Chhattisgarh Online information for Citizen Empowerment (CHOiCE) Project
• COPE - Australia
• The Chevron Workplace AIDS Prevention Programme (CWAPP) - Nigeria
• AIDS Prevention Software Projects – Thailand
• Young Adult Reproductive Health (YARH) Project - Nigeria
• Freedom from Tobacco – India
• COMSALUD - Latin America
• AIDS Prevention and Control Project in Tiruchy City
• e-Farmasi - Malaysia
• Radio Oxyjeune - Senegal
• Health e-News – South Africa

Section 3: Networking and Dialogue Tools

• Education and Health Promotion Programme - Nigeria
• YouthLIFE - Botswana, Nigeria, and South Africa
• EC/UNFPA Initiative for Reproductive Health (RHI) in Asia
• Electronic Discussion Boards (HDN)
• Regional HIV/AIDS Information Network (RHAIN)
• ProCOR/AMICOR
• Philippine Health Social Science Association - Philippines
• Women Connect! - Eastern and Southern Africa
• Journalists Against AIDS (JAAIDS) - Nigeria
• APRI-Minga - Peru
• Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET) - Uganda
• NABUUR
• ToolxCHANGE Project

Section 4: Telemedicine And High-Tech Medical Tools

• The Telemedicine TeleInViVo Initiative - Uganda
• Satellife's PDA Health Information Project - Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda
• Tygerberg Children's Hospital and Rotary Telemedicine Project - South Africa
• The Compliance Service - South Africa
• CERTI - Telemedicine project - Brazil
• Queensland Ultrasound Project - Australia
• Cell-Life - South Africa
• Telerehab RERC - South Pacific
• National Telemedicine Research Centre - South Africa

Topic Search Index Chart [PDF: page numbers refer to the complete PDF document]

Appendix A - South Asia Regional Trends 1965 – 2001 [PDF]

Appendix B - Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Trends 1965 – 2001 [PDF]

Appendix C - Middle East And North Africa (MENA) 1965 – 2001 [PDF]