Welcome to IICD’s online annual report 2007

Welcome to IICD’s online annual report 2007: We are pleased to present this first online annual report of IICD. With only a few clicks you will be able to read all about our work, results and impact in 2007.

We hereby would like to thank all our partners from the public, private and non-profit sector in both North and South for working with us. It is only together that we can connect and create sustainable opportunities for people in developing countries.

Special thanks go to the dedicated team of the Plone service provider Goldmund, Wyldebeast & Wunderliebe, who helped us to realise the online report.

Summary: IICD’s mission is to help developing countries create practical and sustainable solutions that will connect their citizens and enable them to benefit from ICT in order to improve their livelihoods and quality of life. Together with partners from the public, private and non-profit sector, IICD puts knowledge, finance and innovation to work within the field of education, the environment, governance, health, and livelihoods in the agricultural sector.

In 2007, IICD continued to work in line with its strategy for 2006-2010. Its main focus was on making ICT part of the mainstream processes of its project partners’ organisations and developing large-scale ICT for development (ICT4D) programmes with the help of public-private partnerships.

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Chairperson's Report: Over the past 11 years, IICD has been developing programmes in nine different countries in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. These have focused on integrating both modern and traditional communication tools – computers and the Internet alongside radio and television – as a way of connecting people and empowering them to change their own situation.

Over one hundred pilot projects, benefiting 6.4 million people, have proved that ICT can be a powerful tool for generating better incomes for farmers, for giving people access to education, for creating better learning environments, for improving healthcare by linking up medical specialists to understaffed hospitals in rural regions, and for voicing the needs of underprivileged people and helping them to organise themselves. Clearly, ICT empowers people.

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