by developmentatmanchester | Aug 8, 2014 | Comment, Research Findings
By Daniel Brockington Celebrity is a normal part of development business these days. While we can all point to famous development advocates, I suspect that most of us do not know the extent to which development NGOs in Britain, and indeed the whole NGO sector, has...
by developmentatmanchester | Jun 10, 2014 | Comment, Research Findings
By Richard Heeks Around the time of the MDGs, ICT4D became the focus for a critical mass of activity; a “sidestreaming” approach that saw specialist ICT4D units arise in a number of international and national organisations. Following the 2005 World Summit on the...
by developmentatmanchester | Jun 10, 2014 | Comment, Research Findings
By Richard Heeks What should be the future priorities in researching ICT4D? The post-2015 development agenda will be the single most-important force shaping the future of international development. In planning our priorities for development informatics (DI) research...
by developmentatmanchester | Jun 10, 2014 | Comment, Research Findings
by Richard Heeks A key theme in the post-2015 development agenda is transformation: a belief that the incremental developmental changes achieved to date will no longer be sufficient in the remainder of the 21st century; and an aspiration for a step-change in approach....
by developmentatmanchester | Jun 10, 2014 | Comment, Research Findings
By Pablo Yanguas On Monday David Hulme and I attended a half-day workshop at ODI entitled “Aiding reform: Lessons on what works, what doesn’t and why”. It was basically a gathering of scholars, consultants and practitioners working on/with political economy analysis...
