Compendium of ICTD project impact assessments

by Michelle Fellows, March 12, 2009

The Compendium on Impact Assessment of ICT-for-Development Projects, by Richard Heeks and Alemayehu Molla, helps is a valuable guide that facilitates choosing and applying ICTD impact assessment methods. It includes

An overview of ICTD impact assessments methods, approaches, and frameworks
Descriptions of eleven impact assessment frameworks
A bibliography summarizing 150 works on ICTD impact assessment, many drawn from case studies

A bibliography summarizes 150 assessments, mosty drawn from case studies. Heeks is professor at the Institute for Development Policy and Management of the University of Machester and a Global Impact Study partner.

Production of the 157-page compendium was sponsored by Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC). It is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license, so that it can be freely accessed, shared, and adapted.

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Michelle Fellows

Michelle is a Research Assistant with the Global Impact Study and a graduate student at the University of Washington. She is working toward concurrent masters degrees in Public Administration and Library and Information Science. Michelle worked in a law library prior to joining TASCHA. As an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley, she studied geography with a focus in development and spent a year in Durban, South Africa.

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