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What Does It Take To Build A Wind Turbine Industry?

31 August 2010 | In less than 10 years, firms in China, India and South Korea progressed from no wind turbine manufacturing experience to state-of-the-art wind turbine systems. Consider this: Goldwind from China installed 2,727 MW in 2009, a 140% increase on 2008 that saw its international market share rise to 7.2%. The Indian company Suzlon owns 9% of the global market share. What policies led to such robust domestic wind power development? More

Help develop a national Spatial Data Infrastructure for Uganda

20 August 2010 | infoDev, a donor-funded agency of the World Bank, Geo-Information Communication (GIC) and ESRI Canada are convening a stakeholder discussion in September 2010 to help develop a national spatial data infrastructure (SDI) for Uganda. More

Request for Expressions of Interest: Mobile Social Networking

19 August 2010 | In addition to the competition to select hosts for mobile applications labs under the Creating Sustainable Businesses program, infoDev is seeking expressions of interest (EOI) for Mobile Social Networking Activities in Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. More

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Broadband for Africa: Policy for Promoting the Development of Backbone Networks

A report that focuses on the lack of high-capacity backbone networks in Africa More

Building Broadband Strategies and Policies for Development

Low Carbon Development

The Role of Local Innovative Capabilities More

Mixed-Use Incubator Handbook

An infoDev Handbook that aims to provide a useful tool for anyone considering setting up an incubator More

A Model for Sustainable and Replicable ICT Incubators in Sub-Saharan Africa

An infoDev report that analyzes the best international practices of ICT incubators, including 5 Case Studies More

Financing Technology Entrepreneurs & SMEs in Developing Countries

An infoDev Study on the funding challenges and opportunities facing Technology SMEs in developing countries More

Low-Carbon Technology Innovation and Diffusion Centres

Carbon Trust report on the potential of Low-Carbon Technology for developing countries More

Key Insights: Survey of ICTs for Education in India and South Asia

What Role should Governments Play in Broadband Development?

A brief report that analyzes the role of Broadband as a economic growth driver More

Annual Report 2009

Cover image: Summary of 2010 <i>info</i>Dev Annual Symposium

Summary of 2010 infoDev Annual Symposium

Detailed summary More

ICT4E in India and South Asia - Full Report

Innovating and improving education through ICTs More

ICT4E in India and South Asia - Extended Summary

The Global Opportunity in IT-Based Services

Assessing and Enhancing Country Competitiveness More

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infoDev is a global partnership program in the World Bank Group of international development agencies that helps donors and developing countries use innovation and information and communication technologies (ICT) to achieve economic growth, sustainable development and poverty reduction.