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    Open source software and low cost computing [in Africa]

    Catalysing Access to ICT in Africa, 2003
    This project inception report from CATIA looks at strategies for the development of appropriate low-cost computers (LCC) and open-source software platforms and applications (OSS) in order to broaden access to information and communications technologies in Africa.
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    Key issues affecting the African internet: report of an online discussion

    Catalysing Access to ICT in Africa, 2003
    This report of an online discussion held in September 2003. It asks why Africa does not have an Internet, and is so dependent on networks in Europe, the USA and Asia for connectivity between African countries. It looks at historical, economic, policy and infrastructure issues.
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    African telecommunication indicators 2004

    International Telecommunication Union, 2004
    Mobile phone subscriber numbers in Africa have increased by over 1000% between 1998 and 2003 to reach 51.8 million. Mobile user numbers have long passed those of fixed line, which stood at 25.1 million at the end of 2003This report provides a brief overview of market trends.
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    Fundamental issues with open source software development

    First Monday, 2004
    Despite the growing success of the Open Source movement, most of the general public continues to feel that Open Source software is inaccessible to them.
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    The Internet in developing nations: grand challenges

    First Monday, 2004
    This is a call for a Grand Challenge project for connecting every village in the rural developing world to the Internet using a strategy similar to that used in building the NSFNet. The paper speculates on wireless technologies that might play a role in working toward that goal: terrestrial, high-altitude platform, and satellite.
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    Information and communication technology in agricultural development: a comparative analysis of three projects from India

    Agricultural Research and Extension Network, 2004
    A study was conducted that examined the performance of three ICT projects in India. The projects have quite different origins and purposes, but all are concerned with improving the delivery of information to farmers and other rural dwellers. One project is managed by the government of Madhya Pradesh as part of an exploration of egovernance.
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    Internet in China

    International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden, 2004
    Series of articles from a symposium on the sociology of internet usage in China:The Internet in China: A Symposium / Randolph Kluver Mingling Politics with Play: The Virtual Chinese Public Sphere / Guobin Yang . The internet is a venue for socializing, joking, bantering. The fun part lures people back, while politics gets its fair share of attention along the way.
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    Distance learning for teacher training in Brazil

    International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2004
    This article describes a distance learning in-service training programme developed to upgrade 27,000 teachers working throughout Brazil. It illustrates design and implementation structure of the programme, called Proformação, and explains why it has proven to be a successful model for the delivery of education at a distance in the Brazilian context.
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    Theory and practice of online learning

    Centre for Distance Education, Athabasca University, Canada, 2004
    This book is concerned with assisting providers of online education with useful tools to carry out the teaching and learning transactions online. It presents the theory, administration, tools, and methods of designing and delivering learning online.
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    ICTs for disadvantaged children and youths: lessons from Brazil and Ecuador

    World Bank, 2002
    This brief paper looks at some of the issues emerging in reaching children and youth in poor neighbourhoods with training in information and communication technologies (ICTs). These children and youth are unlikely to have access to computers at school or at home and their access to sources of information and knowledge of any kind is severely restricted.

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