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ICT Stories Competition 2003: Now open to enter you story!

Have you been working on a project that uses Information and Communication
Technologies (ICTs) as a tool for achieving development? Then this is an
opportunity for you to share your experiences with the world!

In almost all projects up-to-date knowledge about Information and Communication
Technologies (ICTs) is crucial, but resources and access to this knowledge are
often limited. Moreover, in most projects there is neither time nor money to
carefully compare the various options available. In such situations, the
experiences of others facing the same problems become invaluable.

Opportunities to learn from one's own experiences and to share the experiences
with others are an important means to strengthen respective knowledge bases.
Others find inspiration and can learn from those successes and mistakes, without
having to start a new project from scratch, not knowing what others already know
about the inherent risks and costs, as well as about possible approaches to
manage them.

Knowledge is generated throughout the entire course of a project. The ICT
Stories objective is to capture the learning process that accompanies the
introduction and implementation of ICTs in a project in exemplary stories. Most
Stories applicants have had to struggle to go through hurdles and a lot of ups
and downs for their projects to happen, and their stories become vehicles to
share such knowledge. These stories describe good practices and lessons learned
from contributors' experiences.

Enter the competition and win ?.

Based on a set of criteria three winning stories will be selected by a renowned
jury. The writers of these stories will be given the opportunity to travel to
Switzerland to present their findings at the ICT4D platform at the WSIS!

Please visit our website for more information and the submit form.

Good luck in the competition!
ICT Stories

More information: http://www.iicd.org/stories/
Email: [email protected]