Lutheran World Relief’s Approach to Technology in Latin America

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Lutheran World Relief’s Approach to Technology in Latin America

Information Communications Technology for Development (ICT4D) involves using Information Communications Technology (ICT) to solve problems and improve people’s quality of life, especially for those in developing countries, where appropriate technologies can accelerate stages of development. In this way, ICTs such as mobile phones, the internet, radio and other technologies that allow people to more easily connect with each other can be used as tools to share important information, helping farmers to increase agricultural productivity, aiding in the protection of the environment and facilitating the collection of vital information in disaster situations. 

Through our core values of innovation and accompaniment, Lutheran World Relief (LWR) and our partners are equipped with the flexibility and means to adapt ICT to provide lasting solutions to poverty, injustice and human suffering. 

LWR’s core value of innovation drives us to learn, adapt and grow, and the incorporation of ICTs into our programming flows naturally from this effort. Our field offices, working closely with our partners, have the freedom to employ different ICTs that best meet a community’s needs. 

LWR’s core value of accompaniment, which ensures our partnerships are based on mutual trust and respect, shared values and objectives, accountability and transparency, and a willingness to learn, adapt and grow together, makes certain that our ICT4D initiatives are easily adapted by the people we serve and are appropriate for their context. 

Learn more about how LWR is utilizing technology across Latin America.

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