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Radio Huayacocotla (Huayacocotla, Mexico)
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Media Landscapes, Media Systems, Media Situation in General
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Internet Governance, Internet Policies
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Bridging digital gaps in a mobile device age: Evidence from community telecentres in Ghana
African Journal of Empirical Research, volume 6, issue 3 (2025), pp. 776-792
"This study explores the usefulness of Community Information Centres (CICs) amidst growing ubiquity of mobile phones. It examines how CICs can play a complementary role to personal mobile phones, specifically in facilitating access to information that translates into social and economic progress. Th
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Full Night: The Best Romanian Internet Cafe
Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2024), 28 pp.
Digital Inclusion of the Orang Asli of Peninsular Malaysia: Remote Virtual Mechanism for Usability of Telecentres Amongst Indigenous Peoples
Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries (EJISDC), volume 87, issue 4, e12171 (2021), 14 pp.
"Turning to an ICT-based community development known as the Telecentre Programme amongst Orang Asli, an indigenous people groups in Peninsular Malaysia, this paper describes why a remote virtual management devise was invented to encounter challenges related to rugged terrain constraints, which would
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Internet in Nairobi, Kenia: Medienaneignung als Konstruktion
Bielefeld: transcript (2019), 314 pp.
"Johanna Rieß untersucht, wie sich Nutzer_innen aus drei verschiedenen Internetcafés in Nairobi/Kenia das Internet aneignen und welche Einsichten sich über dieses Medium ergeben. Erzählt wird außerdem eine ausführliche Digitalisierungsgeschichte Kenias. Dabei zeigt sich, dass gängige Annahmen
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Community Networks: The Internet by the People, for the People. Official Outcome of the UN IGF Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity
Top Insights
Rio de Janeiro: Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro da Fundação Getulio Vargas (2017), 244 pp.
"This volume is structured in two sections exploring benefits, challenges and opportunities for community networks and analysing a series of community network case studies and forward-looking proposals, from which useful recommendations can be drawn. As a conclusion, this book includes the updated v
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Redes comunitarias en América Latina: Desafíos, regulaciones y soluciones
Internet Society; Association for Progressive Communications (APC); FGV Direito Rio (2017), 45, xxviii pp.
"[...] El objetivo de este estudio no es solamente destacar el potencial de las redes comunitarias en términos de expansión de conectividad y sus externalidades positivas en materia social, cultural y económica; sino también destacar los elementos regulatorios que podrían optimizar su desarroll
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Una alucinación consensual: Redes sociales, cultura y socialización en internet
Lima: Fondo Editorial Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) (2016), 335 pp.
New Political Economies of Film Distribution for South Africa's Townships? A Critical Survey of the ReaGilè Concept
Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, volume 29, issue 5 (2015), pp. 621-643
"ReaGilès are pre-fabricated, self-contained, education and entertainment complexes situated on 400m2 sites at local schools or public open spaces consisting of a 60-seat cinema, 30- seat computer and Internet facility, community care and policing centre. These complexes are intended to service his
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ICT Economic Impact Assessment
Altai Consulting; USAID (2014), 90 pp.
"The ICT sector is one of few undeniable success stories in Afghanistan’s development over the past 12 years. In 2002, telecommunications services were virtually non-existent, restricted to a very small number of fixed-line connections and satellite communications were unaffordable to the general
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Connecting People for Development: Why Public Access ICTs Matter
Seattle: Technology & Social Change Group University of Washington Information School (2013), 240 pp.
"Libraries, telecenters, and cybercafés play a critical role in extending the benefits of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to a diverse range of people worldwide. However, their ability to contribute to development agendas has come into question in recent times. The Global Impact S
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ICT Development for Social and Rural Connectedness
New York: Springer (2013), viii, 46 pp.
"ICT Development for Social and Rural Connectedness provides an introduction to the concept of 'connectedness', and explores how this socio-psychological term has evolved during the age of the Internet. The book surveys the principles of ICT for development (ICTD), and closely examines how ICT has p
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Technologies of Choice? ICTs, Development, and the Capabilities Approach
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (2013), xii, 267 pp.
"Drawing on Amartya Sen's capabilities approach to development - which shifts the focus from economic growth to a more holistic, freedom-based idea of human development - Dorothea Kleine examines the relationship between ICTs, choice, and development. Kleine proposes a conceptual framework, the Choi
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ICTs and Development: A Study of Telecentres in Rural India
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2013), xiii, 264 pp.
"This volume juxtaposes the global discourse on ICT-D and telecentres with in-depth empirical case studies on the pattern of access and use of telecenters in rural India to draw implications for policy and practice. It suggest that access and use of telecentres and their services are mediated by the
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Toward Entrepreneurial Behavior in Underserved Communities: An Ethnographic Decision Tree Model of Telecenter Usage
Information Technology for Development, volume 19, issue 3 (2013), pp. 230-248
"This paper investigates the decision-making process of community members who decide on using telecenters for entrepreneurial endeavors. A qualitative approach through interviews with telecenter staff and users is used to assess the barriers and enablers to economic activity through use of telecente
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Telecentres for Sustainable Rural Development: Review and Case Study of a South African Rural Telecentre
Development Southern Africa, volume 30, issue 2 (2013), pp. 262-278
"This paper evaluates a South African rural telecentre that may serve as a ‘best practice’ model. The paper first provides a brief literature review of telecentres and the role of information and communication technology in economic development. A qualitative evaluation of a case study is presen
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Políticas de comunicación y ciudadanía cultural iberoamericana
Barcelona: Gedisa (2012), 365 pp.
Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Cafés of Urban Ghana
Cambridge, Mass; London: MIT Press (2012), xi, 235 pp.
Palestine Online: Transnationalism, the Internet and the Construction of Identity
London; New York: Tauris, new paperback ed. (2012), xix, 272 pp.
"For Palestine's diaspora and exiled communities, the internet has become an important medium for the formation of Palestinian national and transnational identity. Miriyam Aouragh looks at the internet as both a space and an instrument for linking Palestinian diasporas in Palestine, Jordan and Leban
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Community Multimedia Centres in Mozambique: A Map
Lugano: New Mine Lab; New Media in Education Lab (2011), 13 pp.
"The Community Multimedia Centres (CMCs) visited vary consistently in resources and services they offer. The table below summarizes the services currently available at each of the presented venues: Community radio and photocopies are always present; ICTs courses are also very present, except, at the
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Cybercafés de Bamako: Les usages de l'Internet au prisme de la parenté et des classes d'âge
Paris: Karthala (2011), 286 pp.
