This report examines the potential of information an communications
technologies (ICTs) for advancing democracy and empowerment, with a
special focus on Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Access to and the
strategic use of ICTs have been shown to have the potential to help
bring about economic development, poverty reduction, and
democratisation – including freedom of speech, the free flow of
information and the promotion of human rights. Based on signs of
current democracy deficits in the case study countries, it is crucial
that ICTs be made central to development cooperation and to approaches
to advance democracy in the three countries
http://www.apc.org/en/system/files/SIDA_ICTs+for+Democracy.pdf
