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Towards Knowledge Society: A Handbook of Selected Initiatives in South Asia

A GKP Regional Partnership Programme (RPP) Project in South Asia
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D.Net (Development Research Network), Bangladesh in association with
Bellanet, Nepal
Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies (CSDMS), India
Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka
Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP)

Preface

South Asia is one of the most active grounds of ICT4D initiatives. In many instances, South Asia is the pioneer in generating creative ideas and seeting through their successful realisation on the ground. The instances of successes and failures are often discussed in various seminars, workshops and other forums organised in different parts of the world, and available in numerous power point presentations and short write-ups. However, there is a severe dearth of detailed and structured information, and insights to the initiatives. Such a situation leads practitioners to replicating or picking certain elements of initiatives, failing to get adequate information about them; repeating same mistakes in implementing similar kind of initiatives, which were already tested elsewhere; and trying to re-invent wheel due to lack of information. The publication of this handbook is a step to meet such knowledge deficit and to share selected ICT4D initiatives of South Asia among practitioners, policy makers, development partners, academicians and students.

The process of information collection for case preparation has not been an easy task. A number of project sites have been visited and a good number of people who were involved in the planning and implementation of the project activities were interviewed. Publications, reports and websites of the different organisations and projects have also been used for gathering information. Comments and opinions from the concerned persons and authorities have been considered prior to these case studies being finalised.

 This handbook contains a foreword by Rinalia Abdul Rahim, GKP Executive Director. 'Towards Knowledge Society:
A Handbook of Selected Initiatives in South Asia', Feb 2008
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