Coordinated by Manchester’s Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM), this website presents two project:
- eGovernment for Development: aims to help public officials, consultants, and others in developing/transitional economies seeking information and assistance with e-government initiatives. The project provides a source of new information that is of direct value to e-government practitioners, enabling them to make e-government more effective. The project focuses sequentially on specific e-government topics; the first being success factors and failure avoidance in e-government initiatives. Content on the site draws largely from the “eGovernment for Development Information Exchange”: a network of many hundreds of e-government practitioners. It includes case studies and best practice guidelines
- eCommerce for Development: aims to help two groups in developing countries. First, small enterprises which are or can be directly involved in e-commerce; enabling them to undertake developmentally-relevant e-commerce. Second, small enterprise support agencies; enabling them to facilitate e-commerce in small enterprises. The project has an initial focus on India and Uganda. It will produce two handbooks, available online towards the end of 2003, that focus on locally-relevant issues and case evidence developed from local sources. The site currently contains existing resources on e-commerce/ICTs in small enterprise, plus links to other e-commerce-relevant resources