Sustaining ICT for Development Projects: The Case of Grameenphone CIC

Autores: M. Sein, Irtishadahmad & G. Harindranath

Information and communications technology is increasingly being used to enable social and economic development of underdeveloped economies. In this paper we draw on the literature on ICT for development to propose four conditions necessary for the sustainability of such initiatives: appropriate positioning of the project for finance flow, appropriate content, the need for a local catalyst, and an appropriate view of ICT within the project. We then present an evaluation of the Grameenphone CIC initiative against these four conditions. We argue that while it may not always be possible to discover linear cause-effect relationships vis-à-vis sustainability, ICT for development initiatives such as Grameenphone CIC can build in mutually reinforcing elements of sustainability based on the four conditions proposed here.

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