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• THE ROLE OF ICT IN ADVANCING GROWTH IN LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES Trends, Challenges and Opportunities 2011
  • Preface
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Table of Contents
  • List of abbreviations
  • 1 Introduction
    • 1.1 The category of Least Developed Country (LDC)
  • 2 Current status of ICT and telecommunications in LDCs
    • 2.1 Changing policy and regulatory environment
    • 2.2 Advances in universal access
  • 3 Emerging trends and current challenges
    • 3.1 Economic fundamentals: Competing for financial resources and marketaccess
    • 3.2 Technological challenges
    • 3.3 Strengthening human capital
    • 3.4 Environmental factors: Climate change and disaster prevalence
  • 4 Opportunities for LDCs
    • 4.1 The role of new technologies in addressing emerging challenges
    • 4.2 Global initiatives
    • 4.3 Investment opportunities and multi-stakeholder partnerships
  • 5 Progress is possible: Case studies
    • 5.1 Botswana
    • 5.2 Cape Verde
    • 5.3 Maldives
    • 5.4 Pacific Islands
  • 6 Missed understandings: How ICT might yet prompt change indevelopment
    • 6.1 Development from outside: An exogenous approach to ICTD
    • 6.2 Development from the inside: An endogenous approach to ICTD
    • 6.3 Information, informational spaces and development
    • 6.4 Some issues of ICT and the Development Sector
    • 6.5 Policy issues for LDCs
    • 6.6 Some challenges ahead
  • Annex table 1. Access indicators
  • Annex table 2. LDCs with full liberalization of fixed sub-markets(2009)
  • Annex table 3. LDCs that regulate mobile prices (2009)
  • Annex table 4. LDCs supporting universal service (2009)
  • Notes