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In September, Canada’s International Development Research Centre invited 30 people from around the world to discuss Information and Communication Technologies and Poverty Reduction.

The meeting took place on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge Mass. The participants included members of the Harvard faculty, educators, academics, and engineers from developing countries, and Nobel prize winning economists.

Their objectives were:

• to discuss the connections between diffusion of ICTs, and poverty, in developing countries of different kinds; 
• to consider ways which ICT policies, management and investments can be more effective for poverty reduction; 
• to consider priority areas for action and research, for increasing the contribution of ICTs to poverty reduction.

Click on the file below to read the Forum summary.

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