ICTs enable societies to produce, access, adapt and apply information in greater amounts, more rapidly and at reduced costs, offering enormous opportunities for expanding businesses and economic progress. ICTs can also contribute towards strengthening democracy, increasing social participation, competing in the global market place and removing barriers to modernisation; making poor populations participants agents in the developmental process.

Engineers Without Borders UK work to date:

Research:

• Delivering on sustainability aspirations when building schools for the future: sharing findings from eco-footing programmes - C Cleaver and P Guthrie
• Engineering learning with appropriate technology - Mike Clifford
• A case-study of drilling water wells illustrating the work of developing technologies - R Dennis and K Pullen (EWB-UK research conference 2009 presentation)
• International engineering contribution to slum upgrading projects in the developing world - Victoria Hickman
• Maximising the benefits of training engineers about gender - B Reed and S Coates
• ICTs for development: A social entrepreneur's perspective - 'Gbenga Sesan (presentation)

Current opportunities with Engineers Without Borders UK:

Placements:

• GVEP: Developing energy enterprises project - East Africa
• Aptivate: Software development, web technologies development, research and information dissemination - UK
• CSE: Campaign research - India
• Shelter Associates: GIS mapping - India

Research:

Available projects 2009:

1. Education software
2. Simplified computer

Other interesting links:

• Practical Action ICT work
• ICT for development - Eldis
• Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP)
• Itrain Online
• infoDev

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