Publications and Online Tools

Online Tools

• Powering ICT: An Energy Solutions Toolkit for ICT Projects
  (Access the toolkit on the DOT-COM site)
  
  Newsletter
• DOT-COMments eNewsletter
  (Access the current issue of the newsletter, subscribe and search the article archives on the DOT-COM site)

  Monograph

• Programa para of Futuro: Enabling Disadvantaged Youth to Build New Futures, 2005.
  English Version
  Portuguese Version
  
  Reports

• Programa Para o Futuro (PPF) Brazil- Final Report
  • English Version of the report without Portuguese Appendices V& VII
  • Appendix V: Student Reflections and Testimonials (in Portuguese)
  • Appendix VII: News articles about PPF (in Portuguese)
  
  
• A Sourcebook on Access and Applications: Models of Use and Case Studies
  (Access individual chapters or the full document on the Learnlink site)
  
  
• Gender, Information Technology and Developing Countries: An Analytical Study
  (Access the study on the LearnLink site)
  
  
• Future Directions in Agriculture and Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) at USAID
  (Access this background paper on the DOT-COM site)
  
  
  Articles in TechKnowlogia
• Brazil: Rapid Experiential Learning Program, by Eric Rusten & Vera Suguri (Oct-Dec. 2002)
  
• Configuration of School Technologies: Strategies & Options, by Eric Rusten (Jan-March 2002)
  
• Open Source Software: No Free Lunch? by Eric Rusten & Kurt Moses (Jan-March 2002)
  
• River-Walk Brazil: Virtual Journey, Real Learning, by Arati Singh, Eric Rusten & Vera Suguri (Jan-March 2002)
  
• Pedagogical Uses of Web-based Chat: A Pilot Activity in Brazil, by Vera Suguri, Lourdes Matos, Leda Castro, Lurdes Marilene Jung, & Eric Rusten (Jan-March 2002)
  
• AMIC@S in Asunción: Leapfrogging Development, by Mary Fontaine (Nov-Dec. 1999)
  
• Back to the Future: "ICT" for "ECD" among the Maya, by Mary Fontaine with Andy Lieberman (Sept-Oct. 2001)
  
• Computer-Mediated Professional Development (CMPD): An Approach for the Knowledge Age, by Mary Fontaine (April-June 2002)
  
• A High_Tech Twist: ICT Access and the Gender Divide, by Mary Fontaine (March/April 2000)
  
• Ghana: How you can use a computer without owning one, by Mary Fontaine & Dennis Foote (Sept-Oct. 1999)
  
• High Tech/Grassroots Education: Community Learning Centers (CLCs) for Skill Building, by Mary Fontaine (Jul-Aug. 2000)
  
• How Information Technology Can Help Development, by Mary Fontaine (May-June 2001)
  
• ICT for All: Are Women Included? by Mary Fontaine (Jul-Sept.)
  
• Supporting Teachers with Technology: Don’t Do Today’s Jobs with Yesterday’s Tools, by Mary Fontaine (Nov-Dec. 2000)
  
• The Watering Hole: Creating Learning Communities with Computers, by Mary Fontaine with Richard Fuchs (May-June 2000)