Title: Delivering Coherent ICT Policies in Developing Countries
Authors: Richard Heeks, Ping Gao & Angelica Ospina
Pages: 4 pp.
Source: e­Development Briefing No. 14
Publisher: Centre for Development Informatics, University of Manchester
Date (published): 09/04/2010
Date (accessed): 14/07/2010
Type of information: research paper
Language: English
On-line access: yes (pdf)
Abstract:
We could trace the origins of information and communication technology (ICT) policies in developing countries to the 1970s – for example in India – when there were a few focused on helping develop the local IT industry. Or one could go decades further back to find roots in policies on media and telecommunications. However, documents called "national ICT policy" only really started to be made in the 1990s and early 2000s.
What have they achieved?