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Grassroots Comics: A Development Communication Tool
Key Guides
Helsinki: Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland (2007), 162 pp.
"The use of comics as a campaigning tool for grassroots organisations is a relatively new phenomenon and has been tested so far only in India, some other South Asian countries and in a few countries in Africa. This manual on the creation of comics as a medium for communication of development ideas s
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De-Colonising Journalism Curricula: A Research & “development” Perspective
Media Asia, volume 34, issue 2 (2007), pp. 79-87
"This paper argues that there is a need to decolonise journalism curricula and practices from the prevailing Western models. Putting journalism curricula in the wider context of higher education in developing and non-Western countries is an important step towards this direction. The paper looks at j
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The Copy/South Dossier: Issues in the Economics, Politics, and Ideology of Copyright in the Global South
Canterbury: University of Kent Law School, CopySouth Research Group (2006), 207 pp.
"This unique dossier was assembled by the activist Copy South Research Group, a loosely-affiliated group of researchers based in a number of countries across the South and the North who seek to research the inner workings of the global copyright system and its effects on the Global South. The dossie
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This volume gathers contributions presented during the 8th IARTEM conference on learning and educational media, held in Caen (France) in October 2005. The conference reader contains a wide range of contributions from industrialised, transitional and developing countries.
HIV/AIDS Media Guide: IFJ Media Guide and Research Report on the Media's Reporting of HIV/AIDS
Key Guides
Brussels: International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2006), 27 pp.
"The guide is divided into three parts: the basics, the media and more about HIV. It provides answers to frequently asked questions about HIV and AIDS, treatments and diagnoses. Other sections cover the history of the virus, transmission, treatments, opportunistic infections and a chronological acco
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Annual Review
London: Book Aid International (2006), 15 pp.
"Annual report of the major UK book charity Book Aid International (BAI), which provides an overview of its work each year, supporting libraries and literate environments in the countries of the South. During the course of 2006 it sent over half a million high-quality books and journal to developing
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The Literature of the Book: Publishing Development
Logos: The Journal of the World Book Community, volume 15, issue 2 (2005), pp. 92-94
"A short, critically annotated listing of significant literature in two categories: (i) books that examine the environment of publishing in developing countries, and (ii) books and training manuals that have been written specifically to assist publishers in those countries." (Hans M. Zell, Publishin
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Incommunicado Reader
Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2005), 192 pp.
"Aiming to bring some of the network-cultural forms of collaboration into ICT debates dominated by standard policy and research procedure, the Incommunicado project does not offer a univocal master-narrative of what’s wrong with the world of ICT, or of how it should be. Members of the Incommunicad
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Massenmedien und sozialer Wandel
E-Publishing in Developing Economies
Canadian Journal of Communication, volume 29, issue 3 (2004), pp. 329-341
"Electronic publishing has been heralded as a worldwide solution to information dissemination. This article considers the problems experienced by traditional journals published in the developing world, with particular reference to those published in sub-Saharan Africa. The opportunities offered by e
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Poor People's Knowledge: Promoting Intellectual Property in Developing Countries
Washington, DC: World Bank (2004), x, 250 pp.
Evaluating INASP-Health: Final Report
Oxford: International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) (2004), 82 pp.
"INASP-Health is a UK-based programme that promotes international networking amongst all those involved in the provision and use of health information including librarians, publishers, biomedical researchers, funding agencies, development professionals, frontline healthcare providers, public health
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Book Aid International: Relieving the Book Crisis in Developing Countries
Library Review, volume 43, issue 2 (2004), pp. 37-45
"Describes the activities of Book Aid International (BAI), the UK book charity, with particular emphasis on their supplying books to meet the specific requirements of recipient libraries in developing countries. Gives a number of specific examples of aid projects providing books to meet different ne
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Open Source in Developing Countries
Stockholm: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2004), 110 pp.
Global Political Communication: Good Governance, Human Development, and Mass Communication
In: Comparing Political Communication: Theories, Cases, and Challenges
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2004), pp. 115-150
"Since the start of the “third wave” of democratization, in 1974, the proportion of states that are electoral democracies has more than doubled, and the number of democratic governments in the world has tripled (Diamond 2001). Countries as diverse as the Czech Republic, Mexico, and South Africa
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Audience Letters and Letter-Writers: Constituting the Audience for Radio in Transnational Contexts
Comparing Political Communication: Theories, Cases, and Challenges
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2003), 418 pp.
Library Aid to Developing Countries in Times of Globalization: A Literature Review
World Libraries, volume 12, issue 2 (2002), pp. 15-36
"A useful review of the literature pertaining to library aid and globalization, including book donation/distribution programmes, and support for local publishers. The study focuses on two questions: what are the major needs of libraries in the developing countries? And whether some of those needs ar
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