South Africa and ICTs for development
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Pretoria - Population:
49000000 - Size:
1219912.0 Km2
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- Bridging a crucial gap in knowledge of the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in Africa
- G. Farrell; S. Isaacs 2007
- This 'Survey of ICT and Education in Africa' seeks to gather together in a single resource the most relevant and useful information on ICT in education activities in Africa. This report synthesises the findings from a survey that was ...
- Enhancing the livelihoods of the rural poor through ICT: A knowledge map
- L. Fourie 2008
- This report contains the main findings of research performed on the impact of ICTs in enhancing the livelihoods of the rural poor in South Africa. After a brief introduction to the research team, the research questions, and methodolog...
- ICT adoption among small hotel establishments in South Africa
- K.C. Mpofu 2012
- The paper identifies the key ICT adoption attributes and explains how these influence ICT adoption and development of e-business among these typical SMEs in South Africa.This paper specifically focuses on small hotel establishments, a...
- Economic development initiatives in South Africa
- 2005
- Africa has been hard hit with poverty and disease and this has had an immense effect on the quality of social, cultural and political lives of the people. This has made development to move at a very slow pace in the last decades. But ...
- ICT strategies in the context of Sub-Saharan Africa - the Tanzanian case
- H. Toivanen 2011
- This report offers a short theoretical and conceptual discussion of ICT strategies in the context of Sub-Saharan Africa, and investigates in more detail the Tanzanian case. The paper discusses how ICT’s possible role can and sho...
- Opportunities for ICTs in small-scale agriculture
- H. Munyua / International Development Research Centre, 2007
- This study aims to explore the opportunities presented by ICTs in small-scale agriculture including environment and natural resources management. It specifically sets out to answer a set of research questions as follows: ...
- Obstacles and opportunities in the use of ICTs by resource-poor farmers, women and youth in ACP countries
- N. Hafkin; H. Hodame / International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (World Conservation Union), 2002
- This report examines the digital divide that exists between developing nations of Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific and the rest of the world. The report highlights the following issues: Gender, ICTs and agri...
- ICTs, human rights and good governance
- A. Selian / International Telecommunication Union, 2002
- This paper analyses human rights and governance issues as they pertain to ICTs for the WSIS forum, with a focus on the role of those who protect human rights and foster good governance. The paper is a part of the Strategy and Policy U...
- Being open-minded to solutions could put Africa ahead in developing model copyright laws for the 21st century
- C. Armstrong; J. de Beer; D. Kawooya; A. Prabhala; T. Schonwetter / Link Centre - Learning Information Networking Knowledge Centre, 2011
- Copyright law alone does not constitute a national copyright environment. This book presents the outputs and findings of the African Copyright and Access to Knowledge (ACA2K) research project, LINK Centre, University of the Witwatersr...
- Threats to internet freedom
- K.D. Karlekar; S.G. Cook / Freedom House, 2009
- The study evaluates the level of internet and mobile phone freedom experienced by average users and activists in a sample of 15 countries across 6 regions. It is based on a newly developed set of 19 indicators. The index ad...
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