ICTs and educational benefits in regional development / James Rennie -- Strategies for the cooperation of higher education institutions in ICT / Juha Kettunen -- ICT-based learning: a basic ingredient for socio-economic empowerment / Hakikur Rahman -- New ICTs for conflict prevention and management / Ángela-Jo Medina -- Technological innovation, trade and development / Laura Márquez-Ramos, Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso, Celestino Suárez-Burguet -- Support networks for rural and regional communities / Tom Denison -- Developing a global perspective for knowledge management / Martin Schell -- Cultural knowledge management and broadband content in development: open content platforms, copyright, and archives / David Rooney ... [et al.] -- Holistic evaluation of the roles of ICTs in regional development / Chris Keen, Dean Steer, Paul Turner -- Role of ICTs in socioeconomic development and poverty reduction / Hakikur Rahman -- A dissemination strategy for the management of knowledge in rural communities / Ken Stevens -- Role of ICT in development process: a review of issues and prospects in South Asia / Dilip Dutta -- Potential challenges of ICT implementations in Sri Lanka / Kennedy Gunawardana -- E-government practices in regional context: Turkish case / Derya Altunbas, Elif Tosun -- ICTs as tools for poverty reduction: the Tanzanian experience / Zaipuna Yonah, Baanda Salim -- Management of new genetic knowledge for economic and regional development of ethnic minorities in China / Jan-Eerik Leppanen.