The Global Impact Study

Five new in-depth studies approved

Five new project in-depth studies will investigate relationships between public access ICTs and mobile phone use, community-level impacts of public access ICTs, the influence of public access ICTs on information ecologies, and the costs and benefits of public access ICTs.

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Preliminary results from the Collaborative Knowledge-Sharing Study: Busy Internet, Ghana

The Collaborative Knowledge Sharing Study investigates the way that people share knowledge, experience, and technologies among friends and strangers while physically co-present in cybercafés. Preliminary results show that more than one-third of respondents reported some deeper forms of computer sharing and collaboration with friends, family members, business associates, and even strangers. And of those respondents reporting computer sharing, one-third reported gaining knowledge and learning from the other user as their primary reason for sharing and, surprisingly, only 18% sited purely economic reasons for sharing.

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Bangladesh infomediary inception trip report

Join our photo-tour around Bangladesh to get a taste of the different infomediaries working in public access venues.

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Chile infomediary inception trip report

Join our photo tour around Temuco and Concepcion to get a taste of the different infomediaries working in public access venues in Chile.

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The Amy Mahan Research Fellowship Program

We are happy to announce the launch of the Amy Mahan Research Fellowship Program to Assess the Impact of Public Access to ICT, a capacity-building component of the Global Impact Study named in honor of Amy Mahan, a dear friend and partner. This fellowship will award up to 12 Research Fellowships to teams of emerging scholars from developing countries in Africa and the Middle East, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean.

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