What are ICT4D and M4D?  How can we think about monitoring and evaluating the role of a particular ICT or digital platform in the context of a larger initiative? And how can work in evolution filed with additional tools? How many separate monitoring of ICT tools/platforms phases are there? Please help…
1. ICT4D
ICT-Information Communication Technology
ICT4D- Information Communication Technology for Development ICT refers to development, and projects which use technology to empower the disadvantaged individuals and community
2. M4D –Mobile for Development
M4D provides mobile technology solutions with a holistic approach to social and development programs. It serves as a one stop-window to organizations to achieve their social development objectives. It works by making partnership with organizations and understanding their challenging problems while developing programs. Because of the high cost and difficulties to working with various mobile technologies mobile operators organizations find difficulty to implement mobile technology project.
ICT Monitoring tools and reports
• ICT for data collection and monitoring and evaluation
• Monitoring and evaluation case studies of the academy of ICT Essentials for government leaders
• Introducing internet based services in the mountain areas of Nepal
• UN-APCICT promotes ICT for development education for youth in Asia-Pacific
• APCICT convenes ICTD experts to strengthen programme monitoring and evaluation
• Steering e-Government projects from failure to success
•A New ICT Maturity model for Education Institutions in Developing countries
• ICT and citizens’ trust in government: lessons from electronic voting in Brazil
• Measuring the Information society: The ICT development index 2009
• Manual for the production of statistics on the information Economy: 2009 revised edition
• Digital review of Asia-Pacific 2007-2008
• Measuring information and communication technology availability in villages and rural areas
• The global information society: a statistical view
• Global Information Society Watch 2007 Report
• Development of a Multi-Factor Set of Country-Level ICT Human Resource Capacity Indicators
• World Information Society Report 2007: Beyond WSIS
• World Information Society Report 2006
• Gender Evaluation Methodology (GEM) for Internet and ICTs: A learning tool for change and empowerment
• Digital Review of Asia Pacific 2005/2006
• Monitoring and Evaluation of ICT in Education Projects: A Handbook for Developing Countries
• Regional Human Development Report – Promoting ICT for Human Development in Asia: Realising the Millennium Development Goals
• National Human Development Report – Promoting ICT for Human Development in Asia: Realising the Millennium Development Goals – India
• National Human Development Report – Promoting ICT for Human Development in Asia: Realising the Millennium Development Goals – Sri Lanka
• Technical Paper – ICT and Human Development: Towards building a composite index for Asia
• Regional Human Development Report – Promoting ICT for Human Development in Asia 2004: Realising the Millennium Development Goals – Summary
• Digital Review of Asia Pacific 2003/2004
• Engendering ICT Toolkit: Challenges and Opportunities for Gender-Equitable Development
• Strengthening Policy and Institutional Infrastructure in Information Technology: Study on Information Technology Needs Assessment and Readiness in the Greater Mekong Subregion
