Gapminder.org
Website for Visualizing Data about Development

Acumen Fund
VC Fund: Building Transformative Businesses to Solve the Problems of Poverty

Video:

• Technology and Infrastructure for Emerging Regions, CITRIS

Academic Courses

• MIT D-Lab: ICT4D Course feb 2008, The hardest class to get into at MIT!
  
• NYU Course Reading List: ICT4D
• MIT Course Reading List: Development Technologies
• University of Colorado, Boulder: Engineering for Development
  2006-220: Engineering for Developing Communities:Integrating Education, Research and Development, and Service/Outreach into Engineering Education
• University of Washington: Computing in the Developing World
  
  

Academic Groups:

• Columbia Earth Institute: Solutions for Sustainable Development, Home of Jeff Sachs
  
• MIT ICT4Dev Reading Group
• Berkeley Reading Group: Technology and Sustainable Economic Development

NGOs:

• The Natural Edge Project -- Resources for Sustainable Design
  
• Engineers without Borders - USA

• EPROM: Entrepreneurial Programming and Research on Mobiles
• Introduced a set of courses to enable students (in developing countries) to develop applications for the world's 2.4 billion mobile phone users
• Kiwanja.net
• An NGO specifically supporting mobile phone applications for development
• Directory of Mobile Applications for Development, Kiwanja.net
• GSM World: Bridging the Digital Divide
• Development Alternatives
  

Governmental:

• UN Science and Technology for Development Report

Blogs:

• Mobile Active
• Valuable Resource for Mobile Phone Activists around the world
• One of the best mobile phone development blogs out there
• Afrigadget
  

Important Wikipedia Pages

• Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D)
• International Development
• Marshall Plan
• Gross National Happiness
• New Economics Foundation

Contests:

• Stockholm Challenge: ICT4D Award Winning Projects
• Android Developer Challenge

Conferences
Development 2.0, ICT4D Conference
International Design Development Summit at MIT (Application Deadline Feb 10)
Microsoft India Hosts ICT4D 2007


From the Cooper-Hewitt Museum
List of Resources for Design and Development

• Cooper-Hewitt National Museum: Design for the Other 90%
• Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
• Architecture for Humanity
• BaSiC Initiative
• Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti, Jaipur
• CARE
• CITYbuild Consortium of Schools
• Center for Connected Health (Partners Telemedicine)
• Construction Management & Consulting Services (COMAC), Ltd.
• Continuum
• Design Corps
• Design that Matters
• Doctors without Borders
• First Miles Solutions
• fuseproject
• Global Village Shelters, LLC
• Godisa Technologies
• Green Project
• House of Dance & Feathers
• Industrial Designers of America
• International Development Enterprises (IDE)
• International Fund for Agricultural Development
• Kennedy & Volich Architecture, Ltd.
• KickStart International
• LifeStraw
• M3 Design
• Mad Housers, Inc.
• Meridian Design, Inc.
• MIT D-Lab
• National Endowment for the Arts
• New Orleans Wiki
• One Laptop per Child
• Oxfam America
• PermaNet
• Portable Light Project
• Potters for Peace
• Project Locus
• Public Architecture
• Q Drum (Pty) Ltd.
• Ratanakiri
• Rolex Awards for Enterprise
• SELCO-India
• Side by Side International
• Squid Labs
• StarSight
• UNICEF
• UNIFEM
• United Nations
• United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
• Urban Institute
• U.S. Census Bureau
• WorldBike
• World Bank
• World Energy Council
• World Health Organization
• World Wildlife Fund
• YouOrleans

NGO List:

• Digital Opportunity Initiative