Posted September 1996

The Internet and Rural Development: Recommendations for Strategy and Activity

Internet World Wide Web sites listed in this Report

Introduction | Table of Contents | Executive Summary | Preface/Acknowledgements | Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Project suggestions | Bibliography/Resources | WWW sites | Glossary

Organizations Responsible for Supporting this Report

• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
• Sustainable Development Department at FAO
• University of Guelph, Department of Rural Extension Studies

Other Internet Papers by Don Richardson

• Homepage

International Development Agencies and Organizations Involved in Internet Initiatives

• Association for Progressive Communication (APC)
• Bellanet
• Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
• Canadian International Development Agency's recent Internet and development discussion forum
• Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
• Economic Commission for Africa - Report: Africa's Information Society Initiative (AISI): An Action Framework to Build Africa's Information and Communication Infrastructure
• Don Snowden Program for Development Communication
• Information centre for Low-External-Input and Sustainable Agriculture (ILEIA)
• Information for Development Program - or - infoDev
• International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
• International Telecommunications Union (ITU)
• International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
• Inter Press Service Third World News Agency (IPS)
• NASA
• Organization of American States (OAS)
• Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA)
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
• United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)
• Unesco
• UN Secretary General's Special Initiative on Africa, Proposal for Harnessing Information Technology for Development
• USAID
• World Bank
• World Bank's Electronic Media Centre (EMC)

African Organizations and Internet Information Sites

• Africa Internet Forum
• African Networking Initiative (ANI) -or- ANI information at IDRC
• African Networking Initiative "Jensen Report"
• Capacity Building for Electronic Communication in Africa (CABECA)
• Ghana - Network Computer Services (NCS)
• Internet Africa, Zimbabwe
• Internet Egypt
• Leland Initiative (USAID) -or- UNDP information on Leland Initiative
• Pan African Development Information System (PADIS)
• Regional Information Technology and Software Engineering Centre (RITSEC) in Egypt
• SangoNet
• Sustainable Development Networking Project (UNDP)
• ToolNet - Telecommunications in Africa report
• Uganda - InfoMail (Uganda) Ltd. Internet Service Provider
• UN Secretary General's Special Initiative on Africa, Proposal for Harnessing Information Technology for Development
• USAID's Africa strategy, "Empowering Africans in the Information Age"
• Welcome to Zimbabwe: Africa Tour Net
• World Bank Project for Increasing Internet Connectivity in Sub-Saharan Africa
• ZAMNET, Zambia

Latin American Organizations and Internet Information Sites

• Cucapah - FAO supported farmers' network in Mexicali, Mexico
• FAO's Communication for Development in Latin America Project agricultural producers' networking initiative
• FIDAMERICA (IFAD)
• RedHUCyT (the Organization of American States (OAS) "Hemisphere-Wide Inter-University Scientific and Technological Information Network"
• (UNDP) Sustainable Development Networking Project

Other Organizations and Resources Mentioned in the Report

• Agribiz.net Internet consulting company
• Australia and New Zealand's Landcare "Integrated Systems for Knowledge Management" approach
• Bridgehead - OXFAM Canada
• Canada's Community Access Project
• Canada's first "Rural and Remote Telecommunication Conference"
• "Ceres", The FAO Review articles on the Internet and development (No. 158 - March-April 1996)
• CETYS Universidad, Mexicali, Mexico
• Community Forestry Unit, FAO
• Devmedia Links! - Media for Development and Democracy
• Gencor (formerly United Breeders of Canada)
• "EFF's (Extended) Guide to the Internet" from the Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Forest Trees and People Network
• Indigenous Knowledge Programme (Bellanet)
• Indigenous Studies WWW Virtual Library
• "INET" annual global Internet conference
• Integrated Voice and Data Network (IVDN) of the CGIAR
• Inter-parliamentary Conference on Education, Science, Culture and Communication on the Eve of the 21st Century (Paris, 3-6 June 1996)
• International Small Business Consortium
• Internet Society
• Negroponte, Nicholas - "Being Digital"
• Ontario Federation of Agriculture's Ontario Agriculture Electronic Communications Working Group
• Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
• Pan-Asia Networking (PAN) project (sponsored by IDRC)
• Semex Canada
• Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU),Uppsala, Sweden
• TechNet World Wide Web
• TeleCommons Development Group
• ToolNet
• United Nations World Youth Leadership Summit, August 1995
• Volunteers in Technical Assistance (VITA)
• VITA Electronic Conference on Community Information Centres in Developing Countries"
• Women in Rural Economic Development (WRED)