Chief Editors:

Professor Stewart Marshall
The University of the West Indies, West Indies

Professor Wal Taylor
Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa

The International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology (IJEDICT) is an e-journal that provides free and open access to all of its content.

IJEDICT aims to strengthen links between research and practice in ICT in education and development in hitherto less developed parts of the world, e.g., developing countries (especially small states), and rural and remote regions of developed countries.

The emphasis is on providing a space for researchers, practitioners and theoreticians to jointly explore ideas using an eclectic mix of research methods and disciplines. It brings together research, action research and case studies in order to assist in the transfer of best practice, the development of policy and the creation of theory. Thus, IJEDICT is of interest to a wide-ranging audience of researchers, policy-makers, practitioners, government officers and other professionals involved in education or development in communities throughout the world.

IJEDICT comprises: a "research articles" section for academic, peer-reviewed articles; a "from the field" section for editorially reviewed and peer commented (but not peer reviewed) case studies and descriptive articles; a "research in progress" section for descriptions of research not yet completed; a "project sheets" section for brief descriptions of relevant projects; a "notes from the field" section for working papers, and other commentaries on relevant topics; a "literature reviews" section for scholarly reviews of the literature on a particular topic; and, a "book/media review" section for book, software and other media reviews.

The peer review process used by IJEDICT ensures that research articles are accepted internationally as "refereed articles". For example, the journal is listed/indexed by:

• The "Register of Refereed Journals" by the Australian Government's Department of Education, Science and Training);
• ProQuest;
• EBSCO;
• SOCOL@R by China Educational Publications Import and Export Corporation (CEPIEC);
• Open Archives Harvester system.

However, IJEDICT is not, as yet, ISI-listed.

Initially each issue will appear in HTML format only, but a PDF version can be obtained by clicking on "Print Version" in the Research Tool. After at least three weeks, when all authors have had a chance to review their work in the HTML format and let us know of any mistakes that have occurred in the publishing process, we will produce a paginated PDF version of the whole issue, as well as a paginated PDF version of each article. No paper versions of our journal are provided by us, but we do encourage you to print your own.