Coming and Recent Events

Portals

Next Billion - "Development Through Enterprise"

Living Labs - EU Portal: "Living Labs for user-driven open innovation"

Wikis

LLiSA - Living Labs in Southern Africa Wiki

Blogs

Many Possibilities - Blog about Telecoms in Africa

Whiteafrican - "Where Africa and Technology Collide!"

Kiwanja.net -"where technology meets anthropology, conservation, and development"

StartupAfrica - "Turning the key on African Tech..."

ICT4D blog - "Talking about information and communication technologies and socio-economic development"

Online Communities, Social Networks and list-serves

Business Model Innovation Hub - "... where visionaries, game changers, and challengers discuss business models"

BiD Network - "BiD Network engages thousands of entrepreneurs, experts and investors from all over the world to stimulate entrepreneurship and economic growth in emerging markets"

VC4Africa - "Venture Capital and Private Equity in Africa"

Social Edge - "global online community where social entrepreneurs and other practitioners of the social benefit sector connect to network, learn, inspire and share resources"

BoP Source -"The first social network for the base of the pyramid"

ASEN - "African Social Entrepreneurs Network"

MobileActive -"A global network of people using mobile technology for social impact"

Mobiles and Development - "A network to facilitate the exchange of ideas, experience and knowledge between researchers and practitioners engaged in the research, development and use of mobile technologies for development"

Betavine - "the open mobile solutions community"

MobileMonday - "Bringing the Mobile Industry Together"

Books

Business Model Generation - "A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers"

Articles

Closing the digital divide - "How the spread of ICT is improving quality of life for millions in the Third World. Clare Rudebeck, March 2009, The Independent."

Online Journals

ITID - Information Technologies & International Development

ITD - The Journal of Information Technology for Development

EJISDC - The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries

Videos

Erik Hersman - "TED talk on reporting crises via texting."

Iqbal Quadir - "TED talk on how mobiles fight poverty."

Organisations and Initiatives

EPROM - Entrepreneurial Programming and Research on Mobiles

AppLab - "Transforming Lives through Innovation in Information Access"

New Ventures - Initiative by the World Resources Institute: "Accelerating the growth of entrepreneurial approaches to the challenges of sustainable development"