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  Trade in telecommunication services: opportunities and constraints

  Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2004

  The growing importance of services such as telecommunications in various countries resulted in a demand to bring services trade under a framework of multilateral trade rules. This paper brings together the issues that are relevant to the WTO negotiations specific to telecommunication services from an Indian perspective.
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  Absent voices, missed opportunity: the media’s silence on ICT policy issues in six African countries

  Rhodes University, South Africa, 2005

  This study was conducted to gauge the quality of media coverage of contemporary ICT policy issues in policy-influential media in Africa.Media was evaluated based on interest in ICT policy issues, what the approach is in coverage of these issues, i.e.
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  ICT initiatives, women and work in developing countries: reinforcing or changing gender inequalities in South India?

  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2004

  Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are increasingly used by developing countries in strategies that see the new technology as having the potential to deliver economic growth, employment, skills generation and empowerment.
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  Engendering ICT toolkit

  World Bank, 2005

  The purpose of this toolkit is to identify opportunities, highlight innovative projects and activities, and suggest how the World Bank and other agencies can help realize the potential for gender equality in access to and use of information and communication technologies.
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  The causal relationship between ICT and FDI

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2005

  This paper investigates the simultaneous causal relationship between investments in information and communication technology (ICT) and flows of foreign direct investment (FDI), with reference to its implications on economic growth.
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  Global networked readiness for education

  World Bank Institute, World Bank, 2003

  This series of global and national reports contain preliminary findings from the September - November 2003 pilot deployment of the Global Networked Readiness for Education Survey Toolkit.
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  Gender and ICTs for development: a global sourcebook

  Royal Tropical Institute, 2005

  This book is a collection of case studies about women and their communities in developing countries and how they have been influenced by ICTs. The book proposes that ICTs and policies to encourage their development can have profound implications for women and men in terms of employment, education, health, environmental sustainability and community development.
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  Open to development: Open-Source software and economic development

  International Policy Network, 2004

  This paper examines the role that open-source software can play in an economy and its development, with a focus on empirical evidence and economic logic.
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  Review of telecenter sustainability criteria for the establishment of sustainable rural business resource centers for SMEs in developing countries

  United Nations [UN] Industrial Development Organization, 2004

  This paper addresses the sustainability issue of telecenters.
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  Factors and impacts in the information society - a prospective analysis in Estonia

  Estonian Institute of Economics, Tallinn Technical University, 2004

  Traditionally, Estonia has been a user rather than a producer of information and communication technologies (ICT). However, with the inflow of foreign investments, mainly from Sweden and Finland, the IT infrastructure of the Estonian firms has been completely renovated and converged to the level of their host companies.

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