[GRACE] FW: Roxanna's digital poverty paper

[Anne Webb]

Thank you for sending these papers and the RIA website around Heloise.
Anne

Heloise Emdon wrote:

>Hello Graciousnesses
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>I am here forwarding you a seminal work that you need to refer to in order
>to get the concepts of digital poverty. Because I believe these will inform
>your work. Roxanna Barrantes is a Peruvian economist that works on a sister
>project, on Pro-poor pro-market policy.
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>The second paper is on information poverty and an attempt to measure it
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>It would be good for you all to visit the www.researchictafrica.org website
>where your Research ICT Africa has the research on 14 African countries
>related to the infrastructute environments that you are working in.
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>Heloise
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: roxbarrantes at iep.org.pe [mailto:roxbarrantes at iep.org.pe]
>>Sent: November 27, 2005 3:47 PM
>>To: hernang at usc.edu
>>Cc: hemdon at idrc.ca; bpetrazzini at icamericas.net; 
>>roxbarrantes at iep.org.pe
>>Subject: RE: Roxanna's digital poverty paper
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>>Dear Eloise
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>>I was caught by a project upon arrival from TUnis, so could not send 
>>the paper.
>>As Hernan said, papers can be downloaded from our website. However, 
>>both Gover Barja's paper and mine are enclosed.
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>>I subscribe fully what Hernan said and we ourselves are trying to test 
>>the methodology on the field, so the interactions we may have will be 
>>very useful.
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>>It was great meeting you.
>>Best regards,
>>Roxana
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>>>Dear Eloise,
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>>>You can download all the papers produced by DIRSI in its first 
>>>research cycle (including mine and Roxana's) through our website:
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>www.dirsi.net.
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>>>I am also cc'ing Roxana.
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>>>Please send us more information about the workshop in Nairobi. We 
>>>would be pleased to help to the extent possible. Both Roxana and I 
>>>are currently involved in numerous evaluation projects. The short 
>>>answer, as usual, is that there is no one model that fits every 
>>>project, but we have been working with a set of research designs and 
>>>variables that we would be happy to share and discuss with colleagues in
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>Africa.
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>>>It was great meeting you. Best wishes,
>>>
>>>Hernan
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>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Heloise Emdon [mailto:hemdon at idrc.ca]
>>>Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 6:25 AM
>>>To: hernang at usc.edu; 'Ben Petrazzini (LACRO)'
>>>Subject: Roxanna's digital poverty paper
>>>
>>>Hello Hernan
>>>
>>>For some or other reason I mislaid Roxanna's card and email address 
>>>and would like you to forward this to her, or email me the paper 
>>>that she worked on concerning digital poverty. In it she cites your 
>>>paper on information poverty, please could you forward that as well.
>>>
>>>I like the framework very much and want to propose the use of it in 
>>>an ICT and poverty research.
>>>
>>>I would also like to engage with you and her about the methodologies 
>>>that the team who we will be workshopping with next week in Nairobi 
>>>plan their methodology.
>>>
>>>My preference would be to find another tool that can assist in 
>>>creating a more dynamic measure to understand the change effect of 
>>>ICTs on poverty, any idea of methodologies that do that?
>>>
>>>Ie when do people move from one-way receive only, to owning a phone, 
>>>and what effect that has on their livelihoods, their family support 
>>>structures, their family management and community management. Are we 
>>>using the wrong variable to understand the interplay?
>>>
>>>Heloise Emdon
>>>Senior Program Specialist
>>>Acacia & Connectivity Africa, Southern Africa
>>>IDRC: International Development Research Centre 
>>>http://www.idrc.ca/acacia http://www.connectivityafrica.org 
>>>Satellite office, Samrand Building, Samrand Road, Midrand
>>>+27 82 85 25 643 (cell)
>>>+27 11 313 3515 (work)
>>>+27 11 206 3515 (fax)
>>>
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