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Communication Rights Ten Years After the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS): Civil Society Perceptions
Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Hivos (2013), 32 pp.
"This report responds to the opportunity provided by the WSIS+10 review which will culminate in 2015. Its purpose is to collate civil society perceptions of the changes that have taken place over the last ten years since the WSIS Declaration of Principles was adopted in 2003. The results are being u
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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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The Great Indian Phone Book: How the Cheap Cell Phone Changes Business, Politics, and Daily Life
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press (2013), xxxii, 293 pp.
"Over just a decade in India, the mobile phone was transformed from a rare, unwieldy instrument to a palm-sized staple that even poor fisherman can afford. Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey investigate the social revolution ignited by what may be the most significant communications device in history and
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Social Media in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
In: Einführung in die Entwicklungspolitik
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2013), pp. 367-380
Connecting People for Development: Why Public Access ICTs Matter
Seattle: University of Washington Information School, Technology & Social Change Group (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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Mapping with Mobiles: Lessons Learnt from the Use of Smartphones for Fast Humanitarian Surveys in Zimbabwe
Harare; Copenhagen: Humanitarian Information Facilitation Centre (HIFC); International Media Support (IMS) (2012), 10 pp.
"SMS services have become a very efficient tool to warn people of health threats such as epidemics or water pollution, but smartphones can also be utilised to stream information in the opposite direction when they are used as tools for snap surveys. In both emergency settings and well-planned nation
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Kongo, Krieg und unsere Handys
Aachen: Missio (2012), 8 pp.
"missio setzt sich im Rahmen der Aktion Schutzengel „Für Familien in Not. Weltweit“ mit einer Unterschriftenaktion für saubere Handys dafür ein, dass führende Handyhersteller sicherstellen, dass ihre Handys kein Coltan aus Konfliktregionen der Demokratischen Republik Kongo verwenden, mit dem
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Mobilfunk und Modernisierung in Ostafrika: Adoption und Diffusion einer Kommunikationstechnologie
Stuttgart: Edition 451 (2012), 147 pp.
"Despite the massive uptake of mobile phones by agricultural producers, there are few quantitative studies that provide hard evidence of a link between technology and poverty reduction. Those studies that have explored this, however, found that farmer access to market information through radio, mobi
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The Use of Jokes and Mobile Telephony to Create Counter-Publics in Zimbabwe
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 4, issue 2 (2012), pp. 243-255
"This article discusses how ordinary Zimbabweans use jokes and mobile phones to construct their counter-publics. Jokes are an important part of the oral public sphere and have been used as outlets for political expectoration, to navigate and subvert state power and media censorship. Most of the joke
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"This technical report seeks to understand the impact of improved access to information technology on farmers’ agricultural production and marketing practices in sub-Saharan Africa, with a specific focus on Niger. Related research suggests in that access to mobile telephony can reduce communicatio
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Communications for Change: How to Use Text Messaging as an Effective Behavior Change Campaigning Tool
FrontlineSMS; Text to Change (2012), 7 pp.
"Getting SMS campaigns right is not simple. The right content, delivered at the right time in the right context, is critical. Adding the right kind of interaction to campaigns can make them more engaging, and increase their power in encouraging positive change. Positive behavior change campaigns sho
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Emerging Implications of Open and Linked Data for Knowledge Sharing in Development
IDS Bulletin (Institute of Development Studies), volume 43, issue 5 (2012), pp. 117-127
"Movements towards open data involve the publication of datasets (from metadata on publications, to research, to operational project statistics) online in standard formats and without restrictions on reuse. A number of open datasets are published as linked data, creating a web of connected datasets.
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Technology and Child Development: Evidence from the One Laptop Per Child Program
Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) (2012), 40 pp.
"Although many countries are aggressively implementing the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program, there is a lack of empirical evidence on its effects. This paper presents the impact of the first large-scale randomized evaluation of the OLPC program, using data collected after 15 months of implementat
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Impact 2.0: New Mechanisms for Linking Research and Policy
Montevideo: Comunica (2012), 167 pp.
This book features case studies and reports on the use of web 2.0 and social networking applications and services to increase the impact of research on policy in Latin America. During 2010 and 2011 Fundación Comunica, with funding from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC, Canada) an
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Bigger Cities, Smaller Screens: Urbanization, Mobile Phones, and Digital Media Trends in Africa
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2012), 36 pp.
"As Africa becomes increasingly urban, the reach and use of mobile telephones and other portable digital devices inevitably are becoming a mass medium. This shift creates new opportunities for existing broadcasters and publishers. And it creates new opportunities for a much larger number of new inde
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Tunisia: From Revolutions to Institutions
Washington, DC: infoDev Information for Development Program (2012), 121 pp.
"The study “Tunisia: from revolutions to institutions” stresses how technology-oriented small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) can generate economic expansion and job growth, including in the economically-isolated interior provinces. Tunisian ICT companies are likely to find an attractive marke
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