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EXCELLENT discussion and examples of how Avaaz (international) and 38 Degrees (UK) use online crowdsourcing to impact on politics and governance. Useful for HL ICT and Civil Society, role of Civil Society and advocacy.

TED lecture on internet innovation in Africa

Spread of technology into rural Kenya- Internet

"50 things that are being killed by the internet The internet has wrought huge changes on our lives - both positive and negative - in the fifteen years since its use became widespread."

Examine the changes in a transport, internet ortelecommunications network in terms of the extension oflinks and nodes and the intensity of use at a national orglobal scale.Describe the role of information and communicationstechnology (ICT) in civil society and the transmission andflow of images, ideas, information and finance.

samsung provides a solar powered educational container for remote African communities.

[Submitted by Jonathan Elliott]

This website has some great data on various developing countries' rates of adoption of ICT (in particular, mobile phones, internet, radio and television) - click on "country profiles" to see which countries are available. While there is slightly less data available for Haiti, Tanzania, Zambia and Mozambique, the dedicated mini-sites for each of the other countries include data on access to various forms of "traditional media" (newspapers, radio) and "new media" (internet and mobile phones). There is also data on usage of the various forms of media by age group, gender and socio-economic status. I particularly like the annotations on the graphs, which will hopefully help students focus on the key data and show them how annotations can help add clarity and further information to figures (graphs, maps etc).

Submarine Cable Map

Updated Sept 2011