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ICTs and Development
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E-Governance, E-Democracy
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Digital Inclusion
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Digital Divide, Digital Inequalities
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Telecommunication Infrastructure
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Access to Internet & Digital Communications
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Electronic Commerce
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ICT Industries & Markets
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Digital Economies & Markets
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Freedom of Expression Online, Internet Freedom
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Digital Media Markets
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Civic Engagement, Citizen Participation, Civil Society & Digital Communication
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ICT / Internet Projects (Development Aid)
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United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
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Economic Development: Role of ICTs & Media
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Internet & ICTs in Rural Areas
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Cybersecurity, Digital Safety, Privacy, Right to Privacy
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Digital Healthcare & Information, Mobile Health, E-Health, Telemedicine
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Educational Use of ICTs / Internet
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ICT Policies
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Artificial Intelligence
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ICTs and Poverty Reduction
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ICT Development Assistance: Donors
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Good Practice Examples
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Civil Society
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Conflict-Sensitive Digital Technology Use & Social Media in Prevention & Transformation
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Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
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Digital & Information Literacy
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Media Assistance: Digital Journalism & Social Media
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Digitalization, Environment & Sustainable Development
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Gender and ICTs / Internet
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Digitalisation, Online Communication & Democracy / Democratization
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ICT4D: Evaluation, Monitoring, Impact Assessment
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ICT Research
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Francophonie
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Media Assistance
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Civic Engagement, Citizen Participation, Civil Society & Media
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Agricultural Information & Extension
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Small-Scale Funds
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Nonprofit Organizations, NGOs
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Millenium Development Goals (MDG)
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Governance & Accountability: Role of Digital Communication
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Digital Financial Services, Mobile Banking, Mobile Payphone Business
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Digitalization, Digital Transformation
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ICT Effects & Impact
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Information Society
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Microcredits, Microfinance, Small-Scale Loans
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Climate Change Communication, Climate Journalism
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Internet Governance, Internet Policies
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Project Impact, Project Effects, Project Effectiveness, Project Efficiency
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Internet Bandwith, Broadband & Backbone Networks
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Mobile Phones, Smartphones
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Mobile Phone Use for Social Purposes, Mobiles for Development
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Open Data
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Digital Activism, Cyber Advocacy
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Empowerment
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Agriculture & ICTs, e-Agriculture
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Digital & Social Media Use, Internet Use
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Digital & Social Media Use: Youth
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Communication Rights
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Digital Media Censorship, Control & Filtering, Internet & Social Media Censorship
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Digital Rights
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Community Development: Role of Communication & Media
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Community Radios
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Participatory Communication
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Telecentres, Community Telecentres, Internet Cafés
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Reconciliation Work
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Conflict Areas: Media Systems, Media Landscapes, Role of Media
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Culture (General)
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World Bank
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Local Development Planning
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Information For All Programme (IFAP/UNESCO)
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Media Assistance Projects & Programs: Case Studies
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Public-Private Partnerships
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Development Communication Research
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Algorithms & Big Data
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Digital Criticism
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Digital Media Landscapes
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Internet
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Internet Business Management
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Open Access Publishing
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Social Media
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Social / Digital Media and ICTs in Disaster & Humanitarian Crisis Management & Prevention
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Video & Foto Online Communities
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Online Learning, E-Learning
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Female ICT Sector Personnel / Professionals
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Mobile Phone Markets
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Software Industries
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ICT Financing
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ICT Regulation
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ICT Training
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World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
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Startups, New Enterprises
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Livelihoods
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Remittances
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Open Educational Resources (OER)
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Open, Distance and Digital Education (ODDE)
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Training
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Environmental Communication
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Climate, Climate Change, Climate Change Adaptation
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Communication for Sustainable Development
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Sustainable Development
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Feminism & Communication
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Gender-Based Harassment, Intimidation & Violence
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Women's Organizations
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Child Health, Mother & Child Care Communication
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HIV / AIDS Communication
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Sexual Health Communication, Reproductive Health Education, Family Planning
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Globalisation: Impact on (Local) Media & Communication
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Transnational / International Civil Society Communication Networks & Strategies
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UNESCO & IPDC Media Assistance
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United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
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Local Radios, Local Radio Programmes
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Media Assistance: Country Strategies & Experiences
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Communication Networks
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Crowdsourcing
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Information Exchange
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Information Transfer
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Media, Mass Media
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Small States: Media Systems & Media Landscapes
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Human Rights Protection
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Regulatory Bodies
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Cost-Benefit-Analysis, Cost-Effectiveness, Efficiency
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Knowledge Sharing & Transfer
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Scaling
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Deaf & Hard of Hearing People
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Parliaments
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Stakeholders, Stakeholder Analysis, Stakeholder Participation
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Media Effects
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Social Aspects
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Informatics
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Technological Change, Technological Developments, Technological Progress
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Technology Transfer
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Postcolonial & Decolonial Communication Approaches
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Promoting Democracy with New Media: Challenges and Opportunities of Development Cooperation
Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2011), 2 pp.
"New fields of action have emerged for those working in Germany’s development cooperation activities that are focused on media. Development cooperation can help new media become an established instrument used by civil society actors who are informed and monitoring political developments. This form
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Capturing Technology for Development: An Evaluation of World Bank Group Activities in Information and Communication Technologies. Volume 1: The Evaluation
World Bank Group; Independent Evaluation Group of the World Bank (2011), 106 pp.
ICTs and Development in Zambia: Challenges and Opportunities
London: Panos London (2010), 8 pp.
Digital Solidarities, Communication Policy and Multi-Stakeholder Global Governance: The Legacy of the World Summit on the Information Society
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2010), xvii, 281 pp.
"Examines the actors, structures and themes that shaped the WSIS with a particular focus on the role played by civil society. The book investigates how civil society self-organization has continued post-WSIS through the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) and other policymaking venues, and reflects on w
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ICT4D: Information and Communication Technology for Development
Top Insights
Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press (2009), xiv, 386 pp.
"ICT4D provides an authoritative account of the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in contemporary development practice. It combines theory with practical guidance – including both a conceptual framework for understanding the rapid development of ICT4D. Case studies provide d
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Information Society Policies: Annual Report 2009
Paris: Information for All Programme UNESCO (2009), 61 pp.
"The IFAP Annual World Report 2009 offers an overview of major international and national policy documents and highlights the most important trends of the information society during the last year. Information Society Policies. Annual World Report 2009 was written by researchers from the Information
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The ICT4D 2.0 Manifesto: Where Next for ICTs and International Development?
Manchester: Development Informatics Group Institute for Development Policy and Management University of Manchester (2009), 33 pp.
"In conclusion and above all, we can see that ICT4D 2.0 is about reframing the poor. Where ICT4D 1.0 marginalised them, allowing a supply-driven focus, ICT4D 2.0 centralises them, creating a demand-driven focus. Where ICT4D 1.0 – fortified by the "bottom of the pyramid" concept – characterised t
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Development Through Electronic Networks: Information and Communication Technologies in Africa
Top Insights
Berlin: Office of Technology Assessment German Bundestag (2009), 268 pp.
"Following an initiative of the Committee on Economic Co-operation and Development, the Office of Technology Assessment (TAB) at the German Bundestag (i.e. the German parliament) has carried out a project on the relevance of the Internet and other new information and communication technologies (ICTs
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Programme Evaluation of the Hivos ICT & Media Programme 2005-2008 “Making Civil Voices Heard”: Final Report
The Hague: SPAN Consultants; Hivos (2009), 105 pp.
Digital Review of Asia Pacific: Feedback and Assessment
International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2009), 86 pp.
ICT4D: Learnings, Best Practices and Roadmaps from the Pan Asia ICT R&D Grants Programme
Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) (2009), xii, 148 pp.
"This unique book presents extensive analysis and discussion from the Pan-Asia ICT R&D Grants Programme covering 56 projects in 18 countries across Asia-Pacific. In addition to inputs from the ICT4D project heads, the book features insights from 6 ICT experts who personally visited these projects fo
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Mobile phones and community development: A contact zone between media and citizenship
Development in Practice, volume 19, issue 4-5 (2009), pp. 585-597
"Mobile phones have already been used widely around the world for activism, social and economic development, and new cultural and communicative forms. Despite this widespread use of mobile phones, they remain a relatively un-theorised and un-discussed phenomenon in community and citizen’s media. T
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Entwicklung durch Vernetzung: Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien in Afrika
Top Insights
Berlin: Edition Sigma (2008), 272 pp.
"Entwicklungsländer und moderne Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien (IKT): Wie geht das zusammen? Dieses oft diskutierte, aber selten detailliert untersuchte Thema wird in diesem Buch vor allem anhand Afrikas südlich der Sahara behandelt, einer Weltregion mit erheblichen Entwicklungshemmn
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New Media and International Media Development: A Resource Guide for Europe and Eurasia
Washington, DC: USAID (2008), 32 pp.
"This paper begins by analyzing the trends and technologies comprising new media. Social networking sites, new mobile phone technologies, and online broadcasting sites like YouTube are assessed to show how they can be incorporated in media assistance projects. The second section continues to examine
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Move Over Bangalore, Here Comes ... Palestine? Western Funding and "Internet Development" in the Shrinking Palestinian State
In: Global Communications: Toward a Transcultural Political Economy
Paula Chakravartty, Yuezhi Zhao (eds.)
Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield (2008), pp. 263-284
Options for Terrestrial Connectivity in Sub-Saharan Africa
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2007), 50 pp.
"This report makes an inventory of existing transmission backbones in Sub-Saharan Africa, and discusses issues related to solutions for improved utilization of such networks. Mobile GSM operators in Sub-Saharan Africa are rapidly covering most populated areas with telephone services. To reach new ar
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Evaluation of the Information for All Programme (IFAP)
Paris: UNESCO (2007), 65 pp.
Information for All Programme (IFAP): Report 2006/2007
Paris: UNESCO (2007), 91 pp.
HIVOS – IICD Strategic Partnership 2003-2006: Evaluation Report
Hivos; International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) (2007), 108 pp.
Acacia Prospectus 2006-2011
International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2006), 57 pp.
"Acacia’s mission is very straightforward; it is to support research on ICTs that improve livelihood opportunities, enhance social service delivery, and empower citizens while building the capacity of African researchers and research networks. Towards that end, Acacia has identified three core res
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