Development 2.0: the IT-enabled transformation of international development

  • Authors:
  • Richard Heeks

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Manchester, U.K.

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The fundamental assumptions of international development are changing, increasingly putting the tools for a digital economy into the hands of the world's poor.