Nexus for ICTs, Climate Change and Development
Resource Papers
This page provides links to online resource papers dealing with ICTs' relation to climate change mitigation, monitoring, strategy and adaptation in developing countries.
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Table
of Online Resources on ICTs, Climate Change and Development, 1997-2010 |
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Scoping
Study on ICTs, Climate Change and Development - Review of literature, and
identification of research gaps and priorities in the field of ICTs, climate
change and development. |
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Conceptual
Paper on ICTs and Climate Change Adaptation - New conceptual models
explaining climate change vulnerabilities, climate change adaptation within
livelihood systems, and ICTs' contribution to livelihood resilience
("e-resilience") and adaptation ("e-adaptation"). |
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Climate Change as a Strategic
Priority for ICT4D Organisations (thematic
paper) - From survey and other data,
analyses how ICT-for-development activist organisations are strategically
handling climate change as an issue.
Identifies their key focus on adaptation, challenges within and
outside organisations, and recommendations for effective strategic response. |
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Informational
Governance of Climate Change Organisations (thematic paper) - Analyses how organisations active in climate change
should incorporate ICTs into their strategic thinking. Builds a model of "informational
governance" with questions to help these organisations identify challenges
and opportunities, and enable an effective strategic response. |
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New & Emergent ICTs and
Climate Change in Developing Countries (thematic paper) - Analyses the climate change application of new and
emergent ICTs – wireless broadband, wireless sensor networks, GIS, Web-based
tools – in developing countries.
Identifies major uses in disaster management and climate monitoring,
and lacunae around climate adaptation.
Provides recommendations for more effective use of new digital
technology. |
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ICTs and Climate Change
Mitigation in Emerging Economies (thematic
paper) - Identifies the need and
opportunity in emerging economies for ICT-enabled climate change mitigation
in areas such as energy generation, urban transportation and building,
manufacturing, and international trade.
Analyses the challenges to this form of low-carbon development, and
recommends necessary actions by government and business. |
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ICT-Enabled Development of
Capacity for Climate Change Adaptation (thematic paper) - Argues that mobiles have been helpful in building
informational capacities for climate change adaptation. However, emergent, self-organised,
transformational adaptation may need to build more on telecentre-based
models, and should focus more on holistic rather than climate-specific
applications. |
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Disaster
Management, Developing Country Communities & Climate Change (thematic paper) - Argues that ICTs have a central role in management of
climate-related disasters. But
strategic changes are needed.
Information systems should be development- rather than disaster- or
climate-focused. More interoperable
and routinely-used rather than specialised applications are required. ICTs should be used more to enable
accountability of disaster response efforts. |
The "Climate Change,
ICTs and Innovation" project is coordinated by the University of
Manchester's Centre for Development
Informatics. The project is funded
by Canada's International Development Research
Centre.
http://www.niccd.org/resources.htm November 2011