The ICT for Development (ICTD) Community promotes information and communication technologies (ICT) as an enabler for sustainable development and as an alternative means of livelihood, particularly for the grassroots communities of India.

Solution Exchange connects members of this Community and increases the effectiveness of their individual efforts, helping them share and apply each other’s knowledge and experience. Through Solution Exchange, colleagues can turn to their peers across India for solutions to the day-to-day challenges they face.
 
What are some of the issues covered by this Community?

• Promoting awareness of ICT’s role in poverty alleviation and  for livelihood opportunities
  
• ICT-enabled service delivery models
  
• Licensing and regulatory framework
  
• Synergizing and deploying communication tools and media to facilitate access to grassroots populations
  
• Generating locally relevant content in local languages, through facilitation tools and strategies
  
• Capacity-building of grassroots “knowledge workers”
  
• Bridging the digital divide by including the weaker and un-reached population in ICT strategies

•  Field workers from NGOs, government agencies and the private sector engaged in ICTD
  
• District and local level administrators, community leaders and local activists
  
• Public sector planners and policy makers at national, district and local levels
  
• Representatives of donor agencies supporting ICTD
  
• Academics and researchers
  
• Media persons
  

Any other professionals and practitioners working in ICT for Development

Since its start in November 2006, the ICT for Development Community has grown to over 1,300 members, joining at an average of 17 persons a week. 17% of the members have posted one or more messages. Based on quarterly sample surveys of members, the benefits gained from membership averages out at 4.1 out of 5 "stars"

2% of the members work in NGOs, 11% in Government agencies, and 16% in policy or research institutes or academia. 20% work in the private sector or are independent consultants. 21% work for UN or other donor agencies, programmes and projects, or professional associations. Regionally, membership balances out between 28% in Delhi and 7% in the East; 8% come from outside India.