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Livelihoods Approaches to Information and Communication in Support of Rural Poverty Elimination and Food Security
Overseas Development Institute (ODI); Department of International Development (DFID); FAO (2003), viii, 62 pp.
"It is widely acknowledged that a livelihoods approach provides a useful, logically consistent framework for thinking through the complex issues influencing the lives of the poor. In particular it draws attention to ways in which policies, institutions and decision-making processes influence resourc
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Broadcasting and Development: Options for the World Bank
Washington, DC: World Bank (2003), 24 pp.
"The World Bank should take a more active role in policy and regulatory activities targeting the broadcasting sector because: broadcasting can have a significant part to play in the fight to reduce global poverty; convergence of information and communications technologies (ICT) is allowing broadcast
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DRC Media Environment Assessment Report
Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2003), 21 pp.
Access to Information: Practice Note
New York: UNDP (2003), iii, 19 pp.
"Implementation of the rights to freedom of expression and to access information are prerequisites for ensuring the voice and participation necessary for a democratic society. Access to information and communication build on these internationally recognized rights and together encompass the core pri
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Appropriating the Internet for Social Change: Towards the Strategic Use of Networked Technologies by Transnational Civil Society Organizations
New York: Social Science Research Council (SSRC) (2003), 99 pp.
"This report was prepared for the Social Science Research Council's (SSRC) Information Technology and International Cooperation (ITIC) program. The ITIC program exists to explore the relationship between information technology and civil society. Its goal is to build knowledge about the use and gover
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Media Assistance: Best Practices and Priorities. Report on a USAID Workshop
Washington, DC: USAID, Bureau for Policy and Program Coordination (2003), 17 pp.
"Determining that the time had come to derive lessons from past efforts, think afresh about media assistance, and perhaps add some new models - including approaches for Africa and Asia, where the cultural preconditions and economic prospects are quite different from those of Europe - USAID’s Burea
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Study of Media in the North-East of Sri Lanka
Colombo; Copenhagen: Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA); International Media Support (IMS) (2003), 46 pp.
Hearing the Voices of the Poor: Encouraging Good Governance and Poverty Reduction Through Media Sector Support
Washington, DC: World Learning for International Development (2003), 7 pp.
"This paper argues that heightened media involvement in the PRSP (Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers) process could help build a stronger independent media sector while preparing citizens to take an active role in dialogues that will have a huge impact on their lives. Media involvement would help fra
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Which Future Role for Communication in Danish Development Aid?
Copenhagen: Malmö University, School of Arts and Communication (2002), 49 pp.
The Significance of Information and Communication Technologies for Reducing Poverty
London: Department for International Development (DFID) (2002), 64 pp.
"This study sets out, for DFID staff, the fundamental principles underlying a proposed approach to information and communication technologies (ICTs) and development, and draws from those principles a set of recommendations for DFID's priorities in this area. For the purposes of this study, ICTs are
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Integrating Intellectual Property Rights and Development Policy
Deep Insights
London: Commission on Intellectual Property Rights (CIPR), 2nd ed. (2002), viii, 178 pp.
"Too often the interests of the “producer” dominate in the evolution of IP policy, and that of the ultimate consumer is neither heard nor heeded. So policy tends to be determined more by the interests of the commercial users of the system, than by an impartial conception of the greater public go
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A Universal Code of Journalism Ethics: Problems, Limitations, and Proposals
Journal of Mass Media Ethics, volume 17, issue 4 (2002), pp. 277-289
"As the worlds of economics, politics, culture, and communications face a growing wave of globalization that will likely continue, ethical challenges for journalists have also gone global. I propose a clear division between ethics codes for media owners, the public, and professional journalists and
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The Potential for Community Radio in Afghanistan: Report of a Fact-Finding Mission to Afghanistan
Comunica; Radio Reed Flute (2002), iii, 35 pp.
"This study, sponsored by the Communication Assistance Foundation, examines the potential for community-based radio in Afghanistan and identifies examples of how community radio can support initiatives for community development. The report and its recommendations are primarily intended as a resource
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Declaration on Promoting an Independent and Pluralistic Media in Afghanistan
London: Article 19; Global Campaign for Free Expression (2002), 22 pp.
"On 5 September 2002, an International Seminar bringing together representatives of the Afghan government, local civil society and the international community adopted a Declaration on Promoting an Independent and Pluralistic Media in Afghanistan (‘the Declaration’). This Declaration, together wi
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An Operational Framework for Media and Peacebuilding
Vancouver: Institute for Media, Policy and Civil Society (IMPACS) (2002), 27 pp.
"The framework provides some common indicators or consequences for the media in environments of pre-, overt and post-conflict. It presents a typology of interventions potentially appropriate to the media conditions that exist in those stages of conflict, or in others. It provides indicators for asse
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