The ICT agenda: global action plans and local solutions

Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) have brought issues of communication and rural access to information to the forefront of the development agenda. In this energetic atmosphere, experiments and pilot projects abound. People are forming new social networks, learning together and sharing knowledge across geographic and cultural boundaries. The context for this issue of LEISA is a global phenomenon: the growth of information and communications technology, a process that is both a product of, and a stimulus to, the parallel phenomenon of globalisation. Many see these..