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  Is information technology workplace equal for women?: some observations from Indian software industry

  GDNet document store, 2004

  The participation of women in the information technology (IT) industry is low in most countries, and in India in 2003 they constituted only 21 per cent of the country’s 650,000 IT workers. This paper attempts to assess whether gender discrimination within the workplace is a major cause of this low participation rate.
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  Technology in schools: education, ICT and the knowledge society

  World Bank, 2004

  This paper examines how the rush to incorporate information and communication technology (ICT) in schools in developed countries is leading to a double challenge facing developing countries:first, developing countries face a growing educational divide in terms of access to digital resources and services and of human capacity to take advantage of themsecond, when addressing the issues i
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  Embedding ICT in development

  Capacity.org, 2004

  This collection of papers examines the need to embed ICT within work practices, to create linkages with policy-making, and to ensure that a range of different actors are included in decisions about strategy and the use of technology The papers are: Going beyond a project approach: embedding ICT support in a wider development context by Ingrid Hagen.
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  The social sciences in Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe: a report of an inventory conducted by the universities of Dar es Salam, Eduardo Mondlane, Makerere and Zimbabwe

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2004

  This report is an inventory of the social science teaching and research in Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.
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  Free and Open Source Software(FOSS) e-discussion

  Asia-Pacifiic Development Information Program, 2004

  The Free and Open Source Software(FOSS) e-discussion, is being launched to debate on Policy and Development Implications of using FOSS and to build wider consensus on FOSS as an innovative Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) framework, which can be used to stretch the development dollar and dramatically scale up the impact of various interventions.
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  Literacy skills – proven pathway out of poverty

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  At least 1.2 billion poor people are not able to read or write. This restricts their ability to carry out every day activities such as read signposts, understand medicine labels and machinery instructions, confirm commercial transactions and avoid being cheated. Increasing the pool of literate and numerate people is essential to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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  The new information technologies and women: essential reflections

  United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2003

  This document is the background study for a discussion of experts on "Globalisation, technological change and gender equity" in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, on 5 and 6 November 2001.
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  Knowledge and development: a cross-section approach

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2004

  This paper assesses the effects of knowledge on economic growth.
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  Open source survey results

  DotOrg Media, 2004

  This paper presents the results of a survey on the use of free and open source software among non-profit organisations.
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  The realities of Free/Libre/Open Source Software developers in Japan and Asia

  First Monday, 2004

  This paper examines regional differences in the use of Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS). The authors conducted two surveys – one in Japanese (FLOSS-JP) and one in other Asian languages (FLOSS-ASIA).

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