ICTs Impact on Development in Bolivia - 2007
Sep 30 2008, Bolivia [BO], Education, Livelihood opportunities, Governance
The experience of TicBolivia, the Bolivian national ICT programme covering 2003-2007.
In Bolivia, there are many organisations participating in the programme TicBolivia, sponsored by IICD, and their ICT for Development programmes have a very important role to play. TicBolivia promotes the use of ICTs in developing countries in order to help peasants, teachers, indigenous people and small agricultural producers gain access to communication and be informed. The projects will enable people to improve their quality of life. IICD supports the implementation of ICTs in the nine departments of the country and in three sectors: good governance, agriculture and education.
So far, this support has reached more than 626.614 beneficiaries in the nine departments of the country and the total amount of direct users is about 155.720. All these people have gained access to a direct interaction with information technologies and services and have received training in the three sectors of the programme.
Miriam Suarez and Elizabeth Rodas report on the experience of TicBolivia and its impact on national development in Bolivia.
