This presentation explains the background, overview, approach and next steps of the Bank's IPad pilot project for the Country Offices. Among other strengths the IPad has an ultra-light-weight design, long battery life and a resource efficient iOS (operative system) which makes it extremely...

This presentation, made during the event Development Connections Conference in July 2011 in Kingston, Jamaica asks how well investments in information and communication technology (ICT) work to promote social development, and how far behind Latin America is in terms of access to PCs, the...

This brochure presents the exhibit "Design with the Base of the Pyramid" supported by the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) and the Opportunities for the Majority Sector (OMJ) of the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB). The exhibit displayed tailored solutions designed for this underserved...

This paper studies the effects of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the school environment on educational achievement. To quantify these effects, the impact is evaluated of a project run by the municipality of Guayaquil, Ecuador, which provides computer-aided instruction in...

The One Laptop Per Child initiative is an educational program that aims at deploying millions of rugged, ultra low-cost, individually connected laptop computers to the majority of children in developing nations that today lack access to such devices.