ABSTRACT
In the past two decades or so, information and communication technologies (ICTs) have become immensely popular in development cooperation, getting this image of being powerful weapons against poverty. Technological change needs, just like economic growth, to be assessed in terms of ultimate societal goals, like enabling each and every person to lead a flourishing human life. Kivunuke held a survey and groups discussions in Uganda to determine the relation that people perceive between their quality of life and various ICTs promoted by the Ugandan Rural Communications Development Fund (RCDF). This chapter explains the relevance and potential of the capability approach for the field of ICT4D, and illustrates this by means of some cases. It discusses a selected number of other publications on the capability approach and ICT4D, with the aim of further illustrating the versatility of the approach and discussing some issues which deserve further attention.
