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    Information and communication technologies in schools: a handbook for teachers on how ICT can create new, open learning environments

    Education Sector, UNESCO, 2005
    ICT (information and communication technologies) have already impacted on the economies of all nations and on the fabric of society at every level within which teachers and students live and interact.
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    Community-based networks and innovative technologies: new models to serve and empower the poor

    United Nations Development Programme, 2005
    This report looks at innovative combinations of community-driven enterprises and the new wave of wireless and related technologies. The report concludes that these emerging options could make a significant difference to network access, delivery of services and economic and social opportunities for poorer rural communities.
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    Knowledge maps: ICTs in education

    infoDev, 2005
    This report is a “Knowledge Map” of what is known (and what isn’t) about ICT use in education. It shows that important gaps remain in the current knowledge base, and that there appears to be a dearth of useful resources attempting to translate what is known to work (and not work) in this field for policymakers and donor staff working on education issues in developing countries.
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    Monitoring and evaluation of ICT in education projects: a handbook for developing countries

    infoDev, 2005
    This handbook on monitoring and evaluation of ICTs in education is intended as an introduction and guide for policymakers and practitioners trying to understand and assess the ICT-related investments currently being implemented in the education sector.The handbook compiles a series of articles associated with different aspects of monitoring and evaluating ICTs in education, these include:
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    Developing a successful e-government

    Arab Urban Development Institute, Saudi Arabia, 2004
    This paper presents three perspectives of citizens, businesses and government to advance the transformation to e-government. The required skills for a successful e-government are introduced.
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    Researching ICT-based enterprise for women in developing countries: a gender perspective

    Women's ICT-Based Enterprise for Development, 2004
    This short paper discusses what an ICT gender perspective implies and the various approaches that may be employed within this. It then outlines the Gender Evaluation Methodology (GEM), a framework for evaluating gender impacts of ICT’s.The authors consider operationalisation issues of the GEM framework for women's ICT based enterprises.
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    Can community telecentres reach the most disadvantaged in Africa?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    The first public telecentre in Africa is reported to have opened in 1998. Many more are now in operation and their popularity has grown. So too have claims about their potential to contribute to poverty alleviation by bringing the benefits of the information age to Africa’s most excluded and disadvantaged people. But what difference, if any, are the centres making?
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    Voices for change: Tuning in to community radio

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    The impact of new information and communication tools on development is a subject of extensive international debate, particularly at the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society.
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    Step by step: towards legislation and practice in India

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    More than a decade after the Indian Supreme Court judged that ‘airwaves are public property’, national laws still prohibit genuine community radio broadcasting. Residential universities and educational institutions, however, can apply for broadcasting licenses. Although the government refers to these as community radio stations and they transmit beyond campus, they are in fact campus radio.
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    Can ICTs help increase literacy?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    There is growing awareness that it is not the learning of literacy skills that brings about social and economic benefits but the ability to use literacy in specific instances. Literacy learning must encourage the use of skills in real life situations and promote the transfer of literacy skills from the adult classroom into the external world.

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