i totally agree we need a collaborative approach where locals and practitioners report from the field and donors about their programmes. there is already a lot of information distributed over the web. the question is how to gather it and put it into struture. one idea for web use would be to agree on some sort of classification scheme or framework that is represented in certain searchable tags on a webpage. these tags may then be crawled or indexed with specific search engines. of course here is the difficulty how to disseminate and agree on that classification? but in general it is a classification and not a ploitcial issue. academia, project beneficiaries, private and public sector should be able to develop something simple usable together. just as example, classification could be: used technology, target of livelihood asset (human capital, social capital, natural capital, physical capital, financial capital), target group, sector. in general it should be simple and easy to use and find. and as said before we have to introduce a culture of talking about failures.

i see the value in analyzing the socio-economic impact of icts in rural areas in many different ways: - "real-time" managemenent/adjustment/steering of projects - identification of the major impact areas (and also linked to specific technology (e.g. mobile - financial and social impact, radio - political and educational impact)) - identification of positive and negative side effects - learning from failures and best practices with analytical proof which leads to improvement of livelihoods due to concrete informationen and not guessing - means to promote use of icts where applicable - justification of ict use in general the analysis would also help to categorize ict use and its impact and could lead to some sort of ict handbook or toolbox in later stages.