---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Arlene Luck <aluck@law.usc.edu> Date: Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 2:47 PM Subject: [ITID] New Special Issue Published on ICTD2010 Dear ITID Readers: This special issue of Information Technologies & International Development (ITID) presents selected articles originating from the fourth ICTD, held in London, UK. The International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICTD) continues its momentum as the premier interdisciplinary scholarly conference on information communication technologies and development. (This past March, the fifth ICTD conference was held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.) Under the leadership of General Chair Tim Unwin and General Programme Chair Dorothea Kleine, ICTD2010 expanded to a four-day event that explicitly reached out to non-researchers and sought open discussion. The two days of paper presentations, which have formed the research program of ICTD from the beginning, were complemented by two days of participatory activities involving panels, workshops, and other interactive sessions. The conference registered nearly 600 participants. The selected articles for this ICTD2010 Special Issue are: • “Divided We Call: Disparities in Access and Use of Mobile Phones in Rwanda” by Joshua Blumenstock and Nathan Eagle • “Understanding the Links Between ICT Skills Training and Employability: An Analytical Framework” by Maria Garrido, Joe Sullivan, and Andrew Gordon • “Digital and Other Poverties: Exploring the Connection in Four East African Countries” by Julian May • “Correlation Between Limited Education and Transfer of Learning” by Indrani Medhi, Raghu S. Menon, Edward Cutrell, and Kentaro Toyama • Managing Microfnance with Paper, Pen, and Digital Slate” by Aishwarya Lakshmi Ratan,Sunandan Chakraborty, Pushkar V. Chitnis, and Kentaro Toyama • “Impact of Low-Cost, On-Demand Information Access in a Remote Ghanaian Village” by Cliff Schmidt, Trina Gorman, Michael Gary, and Andrew Bayor • “Looking Beyond ‘Information Provision’: The Importance of Being a Kiosk Operator in the Sustainable Access in Rural India (SARI) Project, Tamil Nadu, India” by Janaki Srinivasan These articles reflect the proportional representation of material from ICTD 2010 based on interventionist work, qualitative research, and quantitative research. Interventionist studies tend to form close to half of the program at each ICTD conference, and this issue showcases three such articles (Medhi et al.; Ratan et al.; Schmidt et al.). Two articles (Blumenstock & Eagle; May) apply an economic methodology to understanding trends in information communication technologies and development. Two additional articles (Garrido et al.; Srinivasan) consider trends and projects through qualitative methods or critical theory. The papers in this special issue provide a glimpse of what makes ICTD "ICTD." We hope you'll enjoy reading these ITID articles that published June 15, 2012 at http://itidjournal.org François Bar and Michael L. Best Editors-in-Chief Kentaro Toyama Guest Editor Arlene Luck Managing Editor ______________________________________________ Information Technologies & International Development http://itidjournal.org