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0. A wired Village: The Warana Experiment |  Hampstead Heath, London in May | |||||
| Warana, Kolhapur District of Maharashtra | Inmarsat | |||||
| Facility Name: (): | Case_StudiesID: -1300682481 | |||||
| Primary objective of the Wired Village project is to demonstrate the effective use of information technology infrastructure in the accelerated socioeconomic development of villages around Warana Nagar in the Kolhapur and Sangli districts of the state of Maharashtra.
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1. Cost-Effective way to target the poor by CASHPOR |  Hampstead Heath, London in May | |||||
| CASHPOR | ||||||
| Facility Name: (): | Case_StudiesID: -1285835873 | |||||
| I see the two parts of this topic as very much interrelated. We are not talking about methodology for reaching the poorest on the one hand and covering costs on the other. We're talking about cost-effective targeting or cost-effective identification of the poor. Now, why must we put some effort into identifying the poor? Why can't we just offer our services to everybody in the rural areas and let them decide whether they want to participate? Well, this is one of the relatively unknown secrets, I think, of the success of the Grameen Bank. Not widely known is the fact that it is exclusively for people below a certain asset wealth line. In the case of Grameen Bank, it's 50 decimals of average agricultural land and household assets of not more than the value of one acre of agricultural land in the area concerned. So Grameen is exclusively for households below that line. And this was developed because of Professor Yunus' observation that many...so-called poverty-focused programs throughout
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2. Packet Radio is used in MCTs in Central America |  Hampstead Heath, London in May | |||||
| Multipurpose Community Teleenter | ITU/BDT | |||||
| Facility Name: (): | Case_StudiesID: -1125390364 | |||||
| The ITU Bureau of Telecommunication Development is designing a pilot packet radio network to extend connectivity in the areas surrounding two
multipurpose community telecenters (MCTs) in Central America.
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| Your Evaluation (１：Lowest to 5:Highest) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
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3. Cleveland Health Clinic detected eight network-security breaches by employees |  Hampstead Heath, London in May | |||||
| Cleveland Clinic Health Systems | ||||||
| Facility Name: (): | Case_StudiesID: -1076546727 | |||||
| The vast majority of the people who work at the Cleveland Clinic Health Systems are dedicated to helping customers get healthy-but a very few are doing more harm than good. In August and September alone, the Cleveland Clinic detected eight network-security breaches by employees.
Six of the ruptures were innocent enough, originating from careless workers who infected servers by spreading worms via e-mail.
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| Your Evaluation (１：Lowest to 5:Highest) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
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4. Kothmale Community Radio/Internet Project: Expanding the Knowledge Base |  Hampstead Heath, London in May | |||||
| Kothmale Community Radio Internet | ||||||
| Facility Name: (): | Case_StudiesID: -1055932882 | |||||
| Spectacular growth in information technology, and specifically the Internet, has the potential to offer a new set of tools for rural development. However, it requires special efforts to create appropriate access models for those who can neither afford Internet access nor have the language capacity to understand the content. The purpose of the Kothmale Community Radio Internet project was to test and demonstrate an access model that reduces these barriers and empowers marginalized communities in rural areas, enabling them to benefit from ICTs to expand their knowledge base and thereby support their efforts to tackle their development problems themselves.
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| Your Evaluation (１：Lowest to 5:Highest) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
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5. IT at Milk Collection Centers: The National Dairy Development Board Experience |  Hampstead Heath, London in May | |||||
| Amul Co-operative | ||||||
| Facility Name: (): | Case_StudiesID: -1027894827 | |||||
| In recent years the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB)-initiated cooperative movement has led to a substantial increase in milk prduction in India. The two main reasons for this increase are the efficient collection of milk and higher profit for producers, both of which have to some degree been influences by information technology. The appropriate IT described in this paper helped to make information symmetric in the market, thereby minimizing problems of adverse selection and corruption.
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| Your Evaluation (１：Lowest to 5:Highest) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
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6. Cyber Host: the Budalangi village women post office |  Hampstead Heath, London in May | |||||
| CYBER HOST: -The Budalangi Village Women Post Office Project | ||||||
| Facility Name: (): | Case_StudiesID: -1015213521 | |||||
| Cyber Host was founded to provide and promote "universal access" to Information and Communication for sustainable development to the poor rural population in Kenya. It achieves its objectives through working with the local administration and local communities to establish functional, effective and efficient community-based Information and Communication access points (telecentres).
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| Your Evaluation (１：Lowest to 5:Highest) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
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7. E-learning: A Successful Experiment |  Hampstead Heath, London in May | |||||
| Buckman Laboratories International | Click2Learn | |||||
| Facility Name: (): | Case_StudiesID: -1012047009 | |||||
| Before Buckman Laboratories International embraced electronic learning, new employees hired to sell its specialty chemicals to paper companies were required to attend a two-week training course at its home office in Memphis, Tennessee. But many struggled through the first week?a rigorous introduction to the paper industry.
"Some people just could not keep up," says Sheldon Ellis, vice president of the company's Learning Center, a project that includes instructor-based training and online tutorials and courses. Now the first week has been turned into a 13-week online course that new hires can absorb at their own pace.
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| Your Evaluation (１：Lowest to 5:Highest) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
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8. KDDI proposes VoIP based rural telephone access system |  Hampstead Heath, London in May | |||||
| KDDI | Root, OSI Plus | |||||
| Facility Name: (): | Case_StudiesID: -987220135 | |||||
| Focus Group 7 received one report, submitted by KDDI, describing the use of a wireless router network
to create an IP-based, wireless local loop option for developing countries. Although this solution has been
implemented in Japan, it had not been field tested in rural areas of developing countries as of the report?fs
submission in May 2000.
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| Your Evaluation (１：Lowest to 5:Highest) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
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9. Luanda-Sul Self-financed Urban Infrastructure Program, |  Hampstead Heath, London in May | |||||
| Luanda Sul | ||||||
| Facility Name: (): | Case_StudiesID: -985832021 | |||||
| Luanda Sul is a trend-setting model for innovative practice. It is based on a self-sustaining urban
infrastructure program aimed to valorize public assets through careful land-use management and planning.
In close partnership with Government agencies, the private sector and community-based organisations, the
population living in temporary settlements and the people displaced by the war are being resettled.
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| Your Evaluation (１：Lowest to 5:Highest) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
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10. Cristal: A Tool for Transparent Government in Argentina |  Hampstead Heath, London in May | |||||
| Cristal Government initiative | ||||||
| Facility Name: (): | Case_StudiesID: -919749838 | |||||
| The mission of the Cristal Government initiative, launched by the current administration, is to disseminate online, and in an easily understood format, all information concerning the use of public funds in Argentina. This includes information not only about the amounts of money devoted to different programs, but also how these funds are administered.
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| Your Evaluation (１：Lowest to 5:Highest) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
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11. Shakti Foundation's experience to make it sustainable |  Hampstead Heath, London in May | |||||
| The Shakti Foundation | ||||||
| Facility Name: (): | Case_StudiesID: -912575332 | |||||
| Since its inception in 1992 the organization has been providing small loans to [poor urban] women for income generating activities and has encouraged women to save.... The organization has followed the Grameen Bank model and so far has a membership of more than 15,000 women and has disbursed loans of more than 87 million Taka [US$2 million], with an average loan size of about 4,000 Taka or US$100. The rate of recovery is almost 100 percent.
The organization has experienced tremendous growth in terms of volume of operation and membership coverage. In 1992-93, we had membership of only 1,200 women, which increased to more than 15,000 in 1996. Our present loan outstanding is more than 28 million Taka [US$600,000].
But if we are to fly to a poverty-free world, we must have institutional sustainability as well. A number of factors contribute to organizational sustainability, but here I shall talk about the three main ones.
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| Your Evaluation (１：Lowest to 5:Highest) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
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12. Covisint, Auto e-Marketplace, offers full service lines |  Hampstead Heath, London in May | |||||
| Covisint | ||||||
| Facility Name: (): | Case_StudiesID: -898163006 | |||||
| Covisint, the automotive-industry consortium, is one e-Marketplace that offers all six services. Created in February 2000 by a merger of AutoXchange and TradeXchange (independent exchanges under development at Ford Motor Company and the General Motors Corporation, respectively), Covisint now also lists DaimlerChrysler AG, Renault SA, and Nissan Motor Company among its members.
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| Your Evaluation (１：Lowest to 5:Highest) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
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13. AOL provides voice-based portal service using phone |  Hampstead Heath, London in May | |||||
| AOLbyPhone | Quack.com | |||||
| Facility Name: (): | Case_StudiesID: -871460099 | |||||
| Launched last fall, AOLbyPhone was developed by AOL and Quack.com, a voice portal maker the media giant acquired last summer.
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| Your Evaluation (１：Lowest to 5:Highest) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
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14. Sowing Seeds of Trust in Rural Nebraska |  Hampstead Heath, London in May | |||||
| Community Networking Institute | ||||||
| Facility Name: (): | Case_StudiesID: -761689111 | |||||
| When Steve Buttress founded the Community Networking
Institute (CNI) to help remote rural towns in Nebraska
apply technology to overcome their economic isolation,
he quickly set out to map the leadership in targeted
communities.
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| Your Evaluation (１：Lowest to 5:Highest) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
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15. Sri Lanka - Community Water Supply and Sanitation Project |  Hampstead Heath, London in May | |||||
| The World Bank | ||||||
| Facility Name: (): | Case_StudiesID: -504151246 | |||||
| demand-responsive community-based W&S services are likely to have sustainable impacts on poverty alleviation and that sustainability of services was markedly higher in communities where households had made informed choices about whether to build a water system and about the type and level of service
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| Your Evaluation (１：Lowest to 5:Highest) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
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16. Community: E-Vironmental Activism |  Hampstead Heath, London in May | |||||
| Environmental Defense | ||||||
| Facility Name: (): | Case_StudiesID: -494596883 | |||||
| Environmental Defense (until recently, Environment Defense Fund), the New York?based nonprofit organization that helped ban the pesticide DDT and convinced McDonald's to drop the polystyrene-foam Big Mac boxes. "We wanted action. We wanted shark finning to stop," says Daniel Freedman, the group's chief Internet officer.
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| Your Evaluation (１：Lowest to 5:Highest) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
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17. Health information project: Using handheld computers for surveys |  Hampstead Heath, London in May | |||||
| SATELLIFE | ||||||
| Facility Name: (): | Case_StudiesID: -374011760 | |||||
| The quest to use technology and information to provide solutions to health problems in Africa and other developing regions led to SATELLIFE's latest endeavor working with handheld computers. Also called personal digital assistants or PDAs, these small but powerful tools could be employed for use in two major capacities: as survey tools and to carry information. Ultimately a variety of public health applications could benefit from this relatively new technology.
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| Your Evaluation (１：Lowest to 5:Highest) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
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18. Building a Community Block by Block in New York City | Hampstead Heath, London in May | |||||
| Neighborhood Entrepreneurs Program | New York City Partnership | |||||
| Facility Name: (): | Case_StudiesID: -368055805 | |||||
| No factor is more crucial to a community’s
strength than the condition of its housing, and no
city exemplifies this dynamic more clearly than
New York.
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| Your Evaluation (１：Lowest to 5:Highest) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
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19. Wachovia saves training costs for 94,000 staff by E-Learning | Hampstead Heath, London in May | |||||
| Wachovia | Centra, Cognitive Arts, SkillSoft, SmartForce | |||||
| Facility Name: (): | Case_StudiesID: -254263816 | |||||
| Thanks to a transition strategy that's moving away from conventional stand-up training in classrooms to Web-based courseware available around the world and around the clock, Wachovia is delivering very cost-effective training. "We've got the dollar cost down to just absurdly low levels," says Doyle, human resources technology manager at Wachovia headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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| Your Evaluation (１：Lowest to 5:Highest) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
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20. Viasphere Technopark | Hampstead Heath, London in May | |||||
| Viasphere Technopark | ||||||
| Facility Name: (): | Case_StudiesID: 2109249726 | |||||
| Viasphere Technopark (VT) is a private company incorporated in the Republic of Armenia in 2001. VT is a wholly owned subsidiary of Viasphere International (VI). .
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| Your Evaluation (１：Lowest to 5:Highest) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
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21. SODBI Business Incubator | Hampstead Heath, London in May | |||||
| SODBI Business Incubator | ||||||
| Facility Name: (): | Case_StudiesID: 2109249728 | |||||
| SODBI Business Incubator is an ICT-enabled non-profit organization based in Shymkent, which is in southern Kazakhstan. The SODBI Business Incubator was established with the support of the Shymkent City administration, and is closely associated with the city's Innovation Committee. The work program focuses on: building mentoring and consulting capacity, facilitating business partnership arrangements between incubators and clients, advocacy for SME policy reform, fundraising, and access to Russian language translations of global and infoDev literature on incubation. The SODBI Business Incubator has over 20 tenants. There are 10 graduates to date. To support ICT-related business tenants, SODBI established its own loan fund for SMEs, and has an agreement with banks to provide loans to clients. SODBI Business Incubator is financially self-sufficient, generating revenue from tenant rentals, business services to internal and external clients, and training services.
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| Your Evaluation (１：Lowest to 5:Highest) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
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22. Kharkov Small Business Incubator | Hampstead Heath, London in May | |||||
| Kharkov Small Business Incubator | ||||||
| Facility Name: (): | Case_StudiesID: 2109249731 | |||||
| Kharkov Business Incubator was funded as part of a shared grant with the UBICA ICT business incubator in Kiev.
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| Your Evaluation (１：Lowest to 5:Highest) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
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23. Vulnerable Children -Use of Social Impact Bonds | Hampstead Heath, London in May | |||||
| Social FInance | ||||||
| Facility Name: (): | Case_StudiesID: 2109249865 | |||||
| Social Impact Bonds provide a way of financing the upfront investment required in the provision of preventative interventions in children’s services. Public sector payments are only made once the outcomes and savings are achieved. Some possible areas of intervention that a Social Impact Bond could fund include: - Adolescent Intensive Intervention: The provision of interventions targeted at young people with complex needs and their families, aimed at reducing family breakdown and consequent entry into care;
- Making better use of adoption: The provision of interventions that enables better adoption performance and provides better support to adoptive parents.
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