Using ICTs to influence policy
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Open licenses promise significant value for funders, grantees and for the public good
- ( P. Malone / Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University , 2009)
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This document examines the extent to which charitable foundations are aware of and have begun to use open licenses such as Creative Commons or the GPL. It highlights examples where found...
- How Open Access Archiving can bridge the scientific divide between North and South
- ( L. Chan;B. Kirsop;S. Arunachalam / SciDev.Net – the Science and Development Network , 2005)
- Scientific progress in developing and emerging countries is greatly hampered by their inability to afford essential journals. At the same time, research generated in these regions is 'missing' to the ...
- How information design can help advocacy campaigning
- ( J. Emerson / Backspace , 2008)
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Part of an advocacy campaign will involve collecting information and evidence to demonstrate the need for change. Information design which uses pictures, symbols, colours and words to communicate i...
- Why disseminate research online?
- ( C. Fisher / Global Development Network , 2008)
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What are the benefits of disseminating research online? How would you go about it if you do not have your own website? This toolkit addresses these and other questions, providing broad tips and sug...
- Communication and information services for poor rural communities
- ( R. Chapman; T. Slaymaker; J. Young / Research and Policy in Development, ODI , 2003)
- This report looks at the of information in livelihoods, and makes recommendations on how agencies can capitalise on and integrate the best elements of traditional communication methods and the ICT rev...
- Online mobilization and publishing for African civil society
- ( S. Niombo / Information Technology and International Cooperation Programme, SSRC , 2003)
- African civil society organizations have begun slowly to appropriate the Internet. Some of them have experienced on line mobilization and publishing. What are the challenges they meet in disseminating...
- Knowledge networking and NGOs
- ( L.T. Soeftestad / Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network , 2002)
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The paper looks at the growing importance of knowledge networking (especially electronic networking), theoretical models of networks and their particular importance in the NGO sector.
Using the expe...
- Environmental online communication for CBNRM
- ( L.T. Soeftestad; P. Kashwan / Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network , 2004)
- This paper looks at how environmental online communication (EOC) could move beyond an emphasis on information to focus on knowledge (and to management of such knowledge) that can be instrumental in ac...
- Linking Radio and ICT's in development communication
- ( Bruce Girard / Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions , 2003)
- This publication provides an overview of the most significant experiences in applying radio and ICTs to sustainable development. It presents case studies showing the convergence of radio and new ICTs ...
- Online development networks and social capital theory
- ( S. Cummings; R. Heeks; M. Huysman / Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester , 2003)
- The paper examines whether the concept of social capital can be applied to facilitate our understanding of online networks in development. The report:asks why knowledge and learning are import...
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