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Participatory Communication: A Key to Rural Learning Systems

Gary Coldevin

Rome: FAO (2003), 32 pp.

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Closing the Gap in Access to Rural Communications: Chile 1995-2002

Bjorn Wellenius

Washington, DC: World Bank (2002), ix, 52 pp.

"In 1994 the government established a Telecommunications Development Fund, financed by the national budget, to catalyze additional private investment in payphone service in rural and urban areas with low income and low telephone density. The Fund has been very successful. Between 1995 and 2000 it su ... pported the provision of payphone service to more than 6,000 rural localities with about 2.2 million inhabitants, thereby reducing the proportion of Chile's population living in places without access to basic voice communication from 15 percent in 1994 to 1 percent in 2002. In addition, some 25,000 individual rural telephone lines are being provided. The subsidies awarded cost the government less than 0.3 percent of total telecommunications sector revenue during the funding period, and Fund administration cost about 3 percent of the monies granted. The Fund's success was due largely to extensive reliance on market forces to determine and allocate subsidies, minimal regulatory intervention, simple and relatively expeditious processing, and effective government leadership. Competition among existing and new operators for the rural market and subsidies led to substantial reductions in cost to the government compared to earlier public sector investments in similar facilities. Commercial success has hinged on operators using the subsidized payphone infrastructures to also provide individual business and residential telephone lines and, subsequently, add value through new services (including voice mail and internet access in some areas) over this network. Interconnection was the single most important regulatory factor of commercial viability, with access charges in some cases surpassing 40 percent of rural operating revenues. The design of the Fund proved robust, and remains the leading example of a costeffective slution to reduce access gaps in basic communication in emerging economies. Some questions remain, however, about whether the services can be sustained in the long term, what to do with the small residual rural population still excluded, and whether anything needs to be done in urban areas. These questions-in addition to limited design improvements suggested by the Fund's experience, as well as work still in progress on quality standards and monitoring-are relevant to the Fund's proposed extension into more advanced modes of communication and access to information, as well as to other countries learning from the Chilean experience." (Executive summary) more

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Community-Radio Case Studies

UNESCO; Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2002), 58 pp.

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Community Publishing as a Process of Change

Kathy Bond-Stewart

In: Courage and Consequence: Women Publishing in Africa

Mary Jay, Susan Kelly (eds.)

Oxford: African Books Collective (2002), pp. 61-69

"Describes the activities and publications of the innovative Community Publishing Process in Zimbabwe in order to train 7,000 village community workers, the majority of whom were women. Through a community based, participatory process of publishing, the project aims to enable marginalized groups to ... more

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Stratégies de gestion de l'information et de la communication au sein des organisations paysannes faîtières: Compte rendu d'un seminaire organisé par le CTA;Proceedings of a CTA seminar on "Information and communication management strategies in federations of farmers' organisations"

London: Sayce Publishing (2001), 216 pp.

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¿Libros para todos? Maestros y textos escolares en el Perú rural

Patricia Ames

Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos (IEP); Consorcio de Investigación Económica y Social (CIES) (2001), 85 pp.

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El churo, el grito y otras formas de comunicación rural: Diagnóstico de comunicación de diez comunidades de la Sierra ecuatoriana

Willo Simbaña

Quito: Abya-Yala (2001), 99 pp.

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Internet y sociedad en América Latina y el Caribe: Investigaciones para sustentar el diálogo

Marcelo Bonilla, Gilles Cliche (eds.)

Quito: FLACSO; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2001), 615 pp.

"La presente obra recoge trabajos pioneros de investigación que reflexionan, a partir de una perspectiva cualitativa y etnográfica, cómo las nuevas tecnologías de información y comunicación en su aplicación al sistema escolar y a iniciativas de gestión local reproducen las pedagogías tradic ... more

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Picture Supported Communication in Africa: Fundamentals, Examples and Recommendations for Appropriate Communication Processes in Rural Development Programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Volker Hoffmann

Weikersheim: Margraf Verlag (2000), 365 pp.

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Wenn die Welt ins Dorf kommt: Verdrängung direkt-menschlicher Kommunikation durch technische und Massenmedien am Beispiel eines Dorfes

Thomas Muntschik

Münster: Lit (1999), 986 pp.

"Wie verändert sich ein Dorf durch Prozesse der Technisierung und Industrialisierung, insbesondere aber durch die Verbreitung technischer Medien, vom Telefon über Hörfunk und Fernsehen bis hin zum Computer? Welche Folgen zeitigt dieser Prozeß vor allem für die Häufigkeit und die Qualität/den ... more

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Communication, Education and Development: Exploring an African Cultural Setting

Kwasi Ansu-Kyeremeh

Accra: Ghana Universities Press, 2nd ed. (1997), 145 pp.

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Perfiles del cuadrante: Experiencias de la radio

María Antonieta Rebeil Corella, Alma Rosa Alva de la Selva, Ignacio Rodríguez Zárate

México, DF: Trillas, 2nd repr. (1997), 314 pp.

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Understanding Farmers' Communication Networks: An Experience in the Philippines

Rome: FAO (1995), vi, 74 pp.

"For several years there has been an awareness in the Philippines of the need to ensure that investments in natural resources research produce options which farmers may adapt and adopt. The Philippines Council for Agriculture and Resources Research and Development (PCARRD) 1991 Review highlighted th ... more

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Introducción a la comunicación rural

Daniel Prieto Castillo

Buenos Aires: Dirección de Comunicaciones Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA) (1994), 54 pp.

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Social Impact of Mass Media in Kerala

Joseph Velacherry

Delhi; Bangalore: Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (ISPCK); Christian Institute for the Study of Religion and Society (CISRS) (1993), 260 pp.

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Todas las voces: Comunicación y educación en el Perú

María Teresa Quiroz

Lima: Universidad de Lima (1993), 300 pp.

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A Thousand and One Worlds: A Rural Radio Handbook

François Querre

Rome: FAO (1992), xix, 197 pp.

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Social Impact of Satellite Television in Rural Indonesia

Godwin C. Chu, Alfian, Wilbur Schramm

Singapore: Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre (AMIC) (1991), xii, 272 pp.

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Folk Media and Development Communication: Myths and Realities. A Report on Experiences in People's Communication in Mexico, India and the Philippines

Neville Jayaweera

Manila; Delhi: Asian Social Institute; Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (ISPCK) (1991), 92 pp.

"This book records and interprets, in a narrative form, how groups of villagers and fisherfolk in Manila (Philippines), in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu (India) and in the states of Tlaxacala, Oaxaca and Michoacan and in a suburb of Mexico City (all in Mexico) tried to bring about social change through ... more

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Bildgestützte Kommunikation in Schwarzafrika: Grundlagen, Beispiele und Empfehlungen zu angepaßten Kommunikationsverfahren in ländlichen Entwicklungsprogrammen
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Volker Hoffmann

Weikersheim: Margraf Verlag (1991), 331 pp.

"Ein Bild sagt mehr als 1000 Worte. Das stimmt, aber leider nur in ganz wenigen Bereichen, wo die Gestalt, die oberflächliche Beschaffenheit der Dinge im Brennpunkt der Betrachtung steht. Meist ist es aber andersherum, Worte sind viel aussagekräftiger und als Kommunikationsmittel viel universeller ... more

Picture Supported Communication in Africa: Fundamentals, Examples and Recommendations for Appropriate Communication Processes in Rural Development Programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa Key Guidance

Bildgestützte Kommunikation in Schwarzafrika: Grundlagen, Beispiele und Empfehlungen zu angepaßten Kommunikationsverfahren in ländlichen Entwicklungsprogrammen Key Guidance

Picture Supported Communication in Africa: Fundamentals, Examples and Recommendations for Appropriate Communication Processes in Rural Development Programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Bildgestützte Kommunikation in Schwarzafrika: Grundlagen, Beispiele und Empfehlungen zu angepaßten Kommunikationsverfahren in ländlichen Entwicklungsprogrammen
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