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    Voices for change: Tuning in to community radio

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    The impact of new information and communication tools on development is a subject of extensive international debate, particularly at the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society.
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    Step by step: towards legislation and practice in India

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    More than a decade after the Indian Supreme Court judged that ‘airwaves are public property’, national laws still prohibit genuine community radio broadcasting. Residential universities and educational institutions, however, can apply for broadcasting licenses. Although the government refers to these as community radio stations and they transmit beyond campus, they are in fact campus radio.
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    Can ICTs help increase literacy?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    There is growing awareness that it is not the learning of literacy skills that brings about social and economic benefits but the ability to use literacy in specific instances. Literacy learning must encourage the use of skills in real life situations and promote the transfer of literacy skills from the adult classroom into the external world.
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    ICTs bring multiple benefits to Indian farmers

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    India is experimenting with information and communication technology (ICT) projects in different sectors and circumstances. ICTs are being used in agricultural development to provide market information, extension advice, information about rural development programmes and other information from government and private sources.
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    Overcoming rural India’s lack of communications infrastructure

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    People in more than 2,000 villages in India are connected to the internet by n-Logue communications through kiosks. During the next year another 10,000 villages will come online. Thanks to basic fibre optic infrastructure installed by the state and private operators, wireless applications have the potential to connect almost 85 percent of 600,000 Indian villages.
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    Do ICTs enhance teaching and learning in South Africa and Egypt?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    The Digital Education Enhancement Project (DEEP) is exploring how information and communications technologies (ICTs) can improve the quality of teacher education and learning. Research looks at primary schools in South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province and in Cairo, Egypt.
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    Women's ICT-based enterprise for development: case studies page

    Women's ICT-Based Enterprise for Development, 2005
    A set of twelve analytical case studies of the women's IT sector enterprises in developing countries. Each provides a summary of performance, success factors, good practices and risks. In total, they show the potential for an IT sector approach to deliver gender goals for development.
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    Researching women's ICT-based enterprise for development: methods, tools and lessons from fieldwork

    Women's ICT-Based Enterprise for Development, 2005
    The paper reports on, and draws lessons from, experiences in researching a group of ICT-based enterprises (mainly doing data entry, IT training, and hardware assembly work) run by cooperatives of poor women in Kerala state, India. The paper presents reflections on the research and fieldwork process.
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    Denying Kenyan girls their right to education

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    The Kenyan education authorities and non governmental organisations (NGOs) are becoming more aware of the need to address unequal access, high drop-out rates and poor quality of education for girls. However, Kenya has missed part of the Millennium Development Goal 3 target – elimination of gender disparities in education by 2005.
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    Freedom and responsibility: representative on freedom of the media

    Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, 2005
    This document outlines the global position of the media in 2004. Arguing that media is the very essence of the contemporary connotations of knowledge, the report outlines how the role of the media reflects democracy and freedom within society.The reports focuses on the growth of the internet which has increased the availability and volume of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ content.

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