This publication “ICTs & Climate Change Adaptation: Enabling Innovative Strategies” has been published by Cambridge University Press and written by Angelica V. Ospina & Richard Heeks
This publication covers information regarding the impacts of climate change intensification, developing countries must implement innovative strategies to adapt to changing climatic conditions and uncertainty. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) can play a significant role in strengthening adaptive capacity.
This Brief identifies ICTs’ contribution to national adaptation strategies including NAPAs and to specific sectoral adaptations in developing countries. These ICTs provide generic support to the process of information gathering, decision making, implementation and evaluation for national level adaptation. Specific ICT applications enable delivery of specific adaptation actions for the vulnerabilities that climate change affects including poverty, water, agriculture and food security, human-health, terrestrial and marine ecosystems, and disaster management among others.
The Brief concludes by identifying guiding principles for use of ICTs in adaptation processes, signifying their role goes beyond the use of climate specific applications. The informational, productive and transformational potential of ICT tools must be harnessed and designed with a holistic, integrated view of adaptation; one that looks at the complete ‘info system’ of mobile phones, Internet applications, tele centres and mass media to foster adaptation at the national, sectoral and community levels.
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