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Gaining independence: a manual for planning the launch of a non-profit electronic publishing venture
Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, 2002This manual is a guide for preparing a business and financial plan in the electronic publishing of scholarly and scientific information.DocumentSupporting women’s ICT-based enterprises: a handbook for agencies in development
Women's ICT-Based Enterprise for Development, 2005This handbook aims to provide support and ideas for women’s ICT-based interprises. The authors describe ‘enterprise’ as the entities with a business focus that have an interest sales and income. The handbook gives an overview of the advantages of supporting women’s ICT-based enterprises, especially the benefits to poor women in developing countries.DocumentHandbook for bloggers and cyber dissidents
Reporters Without Borders [Reporters Sans Frontières], 2005This handbook on blogging aims at giving interested individuals a tool for producing good quality blogs.DocumentPartnerships will improve girls’ education
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006The Millennium Development Goal to achieve gender equality in education can only be met by concerted action. Stronger partnerships are needed to increase opportunities for the millions of girls and women excluded from education, but what kind?DocumentCreating an outer circle in the digital world: participation of women in the e-government system
United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2006This paper argues for the incorporation of gender equity and women’s agenda in ICT policies to combat the exclusion-inclusion syndrome of digital power relations. It focuses on the situation in the Gambia.The current digital era has opened up a space for participation in governance through alternate means.DocumentVillage phone replication manual: creating sustainable access to affordable telecommunications for the rural poor
UN Information and Communication Technologies Task Force, 2005This document is a guideline for replicating the Village Phone programme in a new country.DocumentMobile learning for expanding educational opportunities
UNESCO Bangkok ICT in Education, 2005This paper is the report of an International Workshop on Mobile Learning (M-Learning) for Expanding Educational Opportunities, held in Tokyo, Japan.DocumentEducating girls as a ‘social vaccine’ against HIV
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006The global AIDS epidemic is increasingly affecting women. In sub-Saharan Africa, which has been hit the hardest by the disease, 57 percent of those infected are women. Research has shown that in the early stages of the epidemic, highly educated women were more vulnerable to HIV infection than the less educated. Is this still the case?DocumentWomen as professionals in the Costa Rican information technology sector
International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2005This research paper suggests some tools for improving the current gender imbalance in Costa Rica’s IT industry and calls for policy that will break away from stereotypical professional roles.DocumentMobility for one language, diverse cultures
MTC Mobile Telecommunications Co, 2006This paper examines the current mobile communications landscape in the MENA region and outlines the potential future opportunities and challenges expected to face the rapidly growing sector.Pages
