“The beauty of Solution Exchange is that it addresses a real need (practitioners who want to find out about how others are doing things), uses existing technology and content (e-mail and project information) and involves very little change for its members. Very simple, very slick. Try to apply the same design principles for local online services.”

Billy McGilvray, Knowledge Management Consultant, Scotland

“The ICT forum I believe has become the largest think tank of ICT experts across the country facilitated by Solution Exchange. It brings together the best brains online. It has truly helped us get the best feedback and expert opinions in formulating the "Secondbyte" plan of action.”

Rajen Varada, Technology for the People, Bangalore

“The quality of ideas being shared at the ICTD Community has a potential to drive policies, social businesses, and amazing scale of research and analyses. At Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) we have been hugely benefited through this network in terms of its reach, content and contributions…”

Osama Manzar, Digital Empowerment Foundation, New Delhi

“I am a regular reader of Solution Exchange. Unlike other discussion forums what I like the most about the exchange is the final compilation of work which is done by the moderators. This acts as knowledge repository which can be accessed anytime we feel like.”

Varun Rattan Singh, Community Friendly Movement, New Delhi

“It has been encouraging to see combined queries across the ICTD and DRM communities of late… The Disaster Management sector is always in the need for ICT inputs during emergencies, but almost always there is no time – or knowledge resource – easily available. Looking forward to better informed disaster management in the future, and wishing you the best for the great work you all are doing.”

Anshu Sharma, SEEDS, New Delhi

“I think the Solution Exchange is a great space because of the creative energies of people like you. We never stop admiring how a simple idea has grown so steadily and meaningfully.”

Anita Gurumurthy, IT for Change, Bangalore

“Solution Exchange is definitely one of its own kind to discuss some of the most critical issues related to ICT4D.”

Kadambari, Indian Society of Agribusiness Professionals (ISAP) New Delhi

“We are deeply indebted to the excellent support you provided on the ICTD Community of Solution Exchange, by posting the query on CopyLeft/Open Publishing and then compiling the responses in such an organised fashion. We at CACIM feel that it is really a wonderful initiative which will help many of the practitioners of ICT and add to the existing knowledge pool and increase its application in many areas.”

K. Madhuresh, Critical Action: Centre in Movement (CACIM), New Delhi

“I followed the contributions to my query on ICT-based Distance Learning for Youth with great interest and hope that our colleagues in UNDP Azerbaijan will benefit from them. I must say that the Solution Exchange network works really very well and generates a lot of helpful advice and important ideas, strategically and practically. I am also glad to see that many solutions generated by this open network have a huge inter-operability potential for other regions.”

Yuri Misnikov, UNDP, Bratislava, Slovakia

“Excellent work of consolidation and collection of views across the globe through Solution Exchange.”

M. Moni, NIC, New Delhi

“Solution exchange is a very useful platform for sharing of learning practices among the community of practitioners from civil society organizations, government agencies, academia and industry backed by professionals from UNESCO for consolidating the responses. During my one year of participation and reading of the content from the community, I have benefited a lot from the rich experience of the members. I also wrote the country report on "Digital Literacy Initiatives in India" for which inputs from the members of the community have been of great value.”

Vikas Kanungo, The Society for Promotion of e-Governance, New Delhi

“Solution Exchange is a really brilliant knowledge exchange. I really consider what Solution Exchange is doing as 'best practice' and a model to emulate.”

Michel Bauwens, P2P Foundation, Bangkok, Thailand

“We have found UNDP- Solutions Exchange a wonderful opportunity to exchange views, ideas and experiences of ICT4D programmes. The group has helped us in communicating and connecting with community members with similar interest which has helped us to further our collaboration to take our ICT4D agenda forward. We have enriched with the forum exposure and we congratulate the UNDP Solutions Exchange groups for this very stimulating experience."

Rufina Fernandes, NASSCOM Foundation, New Delhi

“A useful project indeed. If only it could be scaled up much, much, much more. It's needed!” 

Frederick Noronha, Bytesforall, Goa