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Graphic design tools: Free and Open Source Software alternatives
Free and Open Source Software Foundation of Pakistan, 2005Listing of Free and Open Source Software alternatives to commonly-used commercial software packages in the area of graphic design (including raster graphics editing, vector graphics editing, print media design, iconset building)DocumentSome common commercial software and their equivalent FOSS options
Free and Open Source Software Foundation of Pakistan, 2005Listing of Free and Open Source Software alternatives to commonly-used commercial software packagesDocumentThe digital dump: exporting re-use and abuse to Africa
Basel Action Network, 2005This report reveals that large quantities of obsolete computers, televisions, mobile phones, and other used electronic equipment exported from USA and Europe to Lagos, Nigeria for “re-use and repair” are ending up gathering dust in warehouses or being dumped and burned near residences in empty lots, roadsides and in swamps creating serious health and environmental contamination from the toxic leacDocumentMonitoring and evaluating information and communication for development (ICD) programmes
Department for International Development, UK, 2005These gudelines were written for DFID staff in need of advice on the monitoring and evaluating Information and Communication for Development (ICD) programmes.DocumentFinancing ICT for development: the EU approach
Department for International Development, UK, 2005This paper offers a brief overview of European Union financial support to ICT for development programmes, and relates this to the MDG process.It notes that:most EU members support this approach, and ICT forms a significant part of many EU funded projects.DocumentOn the evolution of the spatial economy with multi-unit/multi-plant firms: the impact of IT development
Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organisation, Tokyo, 2005This paper examines how the decline of communication costs between management and production facilities within firms and the decrease in trade costs of manufactured goods affect the spatial organization of a two-region economy with multi-unit/multi-plant firms.DocumentDo governments actually believe that ICT can help alleviate poverty?: a perspective from Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs)
Asia-Pacifiic Development Information Program, 2005This note examines the treatment of ICT in PRSPs of Asia-Pacific countries.DocumentEditorial: mainstreaming ICTs for gender mainstreaming in development
Digital Opportunity Channel, 2005This editorial makes a case for encouraging women in India to become technologically able, arguing that this will help to make women more powerful as agents of social change. The author argues that growth in the informal sector through globalisation has actually often had a negative affect on women, creating more work for the same, or less money.DocumentFree/Open Source software localization primer
Asia-Pacifiic Development Information Program, 2005This primer provides a broad perspective on the localization of Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) for the benefit of policy- and decision-makers in developing countries.DocumentFree/Open-Source software: guide to localization
Asia-Pacifiic Development Information Program, 2005This guide covers all the steps involved in the localisation process starting from fundamental topics such as locale, character encoding and fonts creation to advanced topics including input methods, gettext framework and translation guidelines.The guide takes some FOSS applications such as KDE, GNOME, OpenOffice and Mozilla(Firefox) as case-studies.Pages