Getting Started
Welcome to our website for women in information, communications technology, and development (ICTD). This page is meant to answer some questions you might have about the site and about us. Please add your comments and feedback, sign up, and post your own content! It's meant to be a community resource, so it's your site as much as ours!
What is ICTD?
Information, Communications Technology, and Development (ICTD) is a field in which people from a number of different backgrounds (computer science, development, sociology, anthropology, policy, etc) put their heads together to understand how information and communication technologies can play a role in developing regions. The organizers of this website focus primarily on research in ICTD, that is understanding in novel ways how ICTs are being used, evaluating ICTD deployments, and innovating new ICT applications. However, there are a number of other ways to be involved in ICTD as practicioners, and you are free to peruse this website for resources!
Who are we?
Oh us. We're just a bunch of women that have met through various conferences. Actually - Grace Hopper 2008 will be the first time some of us will get a chance to meet in person, and writing the panel proposal was our first chance to interact and work together. So it is our great privilege to put this website together for you to use as a resource, and we hope that it will grow beyond the four of us into a larger community of women doing work in developing regions!
That's it for now. Add some comments if you have more questions, and we'll update the page!
