Search

Reset

Searching with a thematic focus on Digital development

Showing 1451-1460 of 1866 results

Pages

  • Document

    Partnerships will improve girls’ education

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    The Millennium Development Goal to achieve gender equality in education can only be met by concerted action. Stronger partnerships are needed to increase opportunities for the millions of girls and women excluded from education, but what kind?
  • Document

    Creating an outer circle in the digital world: participation of women in the e-government system

    United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2006
    This paper argues for the incorporation of gender equity and women’s agenda in ICT policies to combat the exclusion-inclusion syndrome of digital power relations. It focuses on the situation in the Gambia.The current digital era has opened up a space for participation in governance through alternate means.
  • Document

    Village phone replication manual: creating sustainable access to affordable telecommunications for the rural poor

    UN Information and Communication Technologies Task Force, 2005
    This document is a guideline for replicating the Village Phone programme in a new country.
  • Document

    Mobile learning for expanding educational opportunities

    UNESCO Bangkok ICT in Education, 2005
    This paper is the report of an International Workshop on Mobile Learning (M-Learning) for Expanding Educational Opportunities, held in Tokyo, Japan.
  • Document

    Educating girls as a ‘social vaccine’ against HIV

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    The global AIDS epidemic is increasingly affecting women. In sub-Saharan Africa, which has been hit the hardest by the disease, 57 percent of those infected are women. Research has shown that in the early stages of the epidemic, highly educated women were more vulnerable to HIV infection than the less educated. Is this still the case?
  • Document

    Women as professionals in the Costa Rican information technology sector

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2005
    This research paper suggests some tools for improving the current gender imbalance in Costa Rica’s IT industry and calls for policy that will break away from stereotypical professional roles.
  • Document

    Mobility for one language, diverse cultures

    MTC Mobile Telecommunications Co, 2006
    This paper examines the current mobile communications landscape in the MENA region and outlines the potential future opportunities and challenges expected to face the rapidly growing sector.
  • Document

    Adapting technology for school improvement: a global perspective

    International Institute for Educational Planning, UNESCO, 2004
    This book presents a compilation of articles based on the premise that the move to advanced technology use in primary and secondary schools offers great hope for improving the access, quality, and efficiency of basic education.The aim of the book is to identify and examine how information technologies can be, and are being, used to strengthen the quality of primary and secondary education.
  • Document

    Remedying education: evidence from two randomized experiments in India

    National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2005
    This paper presents the results of two experiments conducted in Mumbai and Vadodara, India, designed to evaluate ways to improve the quality of education in urban slums. The authors argue that resources alone may not be sufficient to improve educational outcomes.
  • Document

    CSR issues in the ICT hardware manufacturing sector

    Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, 2005
    This report aims to raise awareness of the environmental, human and regulation problems in the ICT sector, and in particular in the production of hardware.

Pages