-

Open Economies - Sites of interest for Open Economies contributors

Mailing List Home

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Sites of interest for Open Economies contributors

  • Subject: Sites of interest for Open Economies contributors
  • From: openeconomies(at)cyber.law.harvard.edu (Finbarr Livesey)
  • Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 12:44:15 -0400
All

Some of these may be very old hat to you, but I wanted to put in one page 
that brought together some of the resources that are online for people 
discussing development generally, and specifically development based on 
technology.

Firstly, there is the Esther Dyson's group Bridges, which is at 
www.bridges.org, whose stated mission is to to help people in developing 
countries and underserved communities use technology to improve their lives. 
There are links to Dotforce reports, commentaries and other interesting 
material, all focused around the digital divide.

Next there is the Development Gateway, at www.developmentgateway.org, a site 
sponsored by the World Bank to gather together a community on development 
spanning a very broad range of issues. This is in some ways similar to what 
we at Open Economies are trying to do, and may provide some interesting 
lessons for us in the future.

The ELDIS gateway hosted at the Institute for Development at the University 
of Sussex, UK, has an interesting page on Internet for Development at 
http://www.ids.ac.uk/eldis/inter/ibrief.htm with briefing papers and links 
to other reports.

An article on the Internet Society's role is worth a quick read for a very 
upbeat interpretation of the possible impact of the Internet on developing 
countries at http://www.isoc.org/oti/articles/1196/sadowsky.html.

Obviously, there is the Dotforce page at www.dotforce.org, but this is not a 
very extensive site.


Please feel free to respond and add resources that you found valuable in 
thinking about the issues that are raised by the Open Economies project.

Cheers

Finbarr Livesey


_________________________________________________________________
Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
 
 
-