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    Information technologies and education for the poor in Africa (ITEPA): recommendations for a pro-poor ICT4D non-formal education policy

    Imfundo, 2004
    Examines the ways in which ICTs can improve the skills of Africa’s young people and adults who do not have basic literacy skills and/or have not completed primary or secondary school.The report looks at: moving towards pro-poor ICT-based sustainable development modelswhy local content is central to African ICT4Dhow informational needs are critical both for individual development
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    Supporting students by telephone: a technology for the future of student support?

    European Journal of Open and Distance Learning, 2004
    This paper challenges the unexamined assumption that on-line communication will be the way of the future in open and distance learning.
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    Towards a new consensus for addressing the global challenge of the lack of education

    Copenhagen Consensus, 2004
    This paper considers the costs and benefits of opportunities available for developing countries to move towards the goals for education set by the Millennium Development Goals and the Education for All initiative.Through a broad review of the literature on education, it presents a case for reconsidering some of the assumptions and prevailing themes of the debates around the education goals, ide
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    The long walk to school: international education goals in historical perspective

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2004
    This paper argues that efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on school enrolments through changes to education policy and increased funding are unrealistic and misguided.First, through an analysis of historical school enrolment patterns in developed countries, the author argues that the international development community has misunderstood the relationship between economic
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    Investment opportunities in Western Africa: ICT and internet sectors

    Spintrack IT Advice, 2003
    Results of a study prepared for the IFC looking at investment opportunities in ICT and Internet sectors in Western Africa , covering the four countries of Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal.The report is available as:a regional market analysis: reporting on general conditions and the state of technology in the region.
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    Financing ICT4D projects: a way forward: issues paper

    Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2003
    This paper looks at how to finance ICT4D and the roles the different stakeholders could play.
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    Straight from the Source: perspectives from the African Open Source movement

    Bridges.org, 2004
    African software developers face many obstacles as they struggle to grow professionally in their chosen field. But these "coders", as a group, form a community marked less by their frustration and isolation than by their perseverance and resolve. This theme dominated AfricaSource, a workshop held in Namibia in March, 2004.
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    Meta-survey on the use of technologies in education in Asia and the Pacific

    UNESCO Bangkok: Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, 2004
    This document provides a snapshot of the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in education in Asia and the Pacific. It uses a broad definition of ICTs which includes broadcast technologies, such as radio and television, as well as the use of computers, related peripherals, email and the web.
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    Communicating in the information society

    Communication Rights in the Information Society, 2003
    Collection of essays include:The other information revolution: media and empowerment in developing countries, James Deane et al.
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    Information and communication technologies in education in the South: beyond futurological prophecies and critical dystopias

    Norwegian Network on ICT and Development, 2003
    Series of papers and presentations from a meeting held on 2-3 October 2003 at the Stein Rokkan Centre for Social Studies, University of Bergen.Papers include: Information and communication technology-appropriation in Ecuador: educative initiatives with disadvantaged groups by Patricia Bermudez ICT and multicultural practice by Katherine GoodnowUsing the Internet Cafe at Techniko

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