Online Reading

Online Reading

1. A great paper by Ha Joon Chang on trade relations between the rich and poor nations: Kicking away the ladder

2. All the material on Development you could ever need at eldis.org

3. A guide produced by the BBC World Service on ‘Development Speak’. This will save much pain… and possibly a masters….

4. Bill Easterly’s great ‘Aid Watchers’ Blog

5. The fountain of all knowledge, and updated with staggering frequency- The CIA World Factbook

6. The World Bank’s ICT arm at Infodev.org. Their M&E for ICT in education projects manual was a huge help when we embarked upon our own evaluative odyssey.

7. Thanks to Michelle for recommending this gem that the EU produced on funding for ICTs funding for ICTs in the developing world.

8. A fantastic Sectoral Review produced for Camara by Elaine Smith. Our bible for anything that’s happening in the ICT in Education space

9. Joseph Hanlon’s ground-breaking paper ‘It is possible to just give money to the poor’. Great criticism of the Aid sector and questioning whether donors and NGOs should ever really be service providers

10. Our favourite blog on ICT and education in the developing world from Mike Trucano at the World Bank

11. BECTA in the UK produced this study measuring the impact of ICT on educational attainment

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