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    ICTs bring multiple benefits to Indian farmers

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    India is experimenting with information and communication technology (ICT) projects in different sectors and circumstances. ICTs are being used in agricultural development to provide market information, extension advice, information about rural development programmes and other information from government and private sources.
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    Overcoming rural India’s lack of communications infrastructure

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    People in more than 2,000 villages in India are connected to the internet by n-Logue communications through kiosks. During the next year another 10,000 villages will come online. Thanks to basic fibre optic infrastructure installed by the state and private operators, wireless applications have the potential to connect almost 85 percent of 600,000 Indian villages.
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    Do ICTs enhance teaching and learning in South Africa and Egypt?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    The Digital Education Enhancement Project (DEEP) is exploring how information and communications technologies (ICTs) can improve the quality of teacher education and learning. Research looks at primary schools in South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province and in Cairo, Egypt.
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    Women's ICT-based enterprise for development: case studies page

    Women's ICT-Based Enterprise for Development, 2005
    A set of twelve analytical case studies of the women's IT sector enterprises in developing countries. Each provides a summary of performance, success factors, good practices and risks. In total, they show the potential for an IT sector approach to deliver gender goals for development.
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    Researching women's ICT-based enterprise for development: methods, tools and lessons from fieldwork

    Women's ICT-Based Enterprise for Development, 2005
    The paper reports on, and draws lessons from, experiences in researching a group of ICT-based enterprises (mainly doing data entry, IT training, and hardware assembly work) run by cooperatives of poor women in Kerala state, India. The paper presents reflections on the research and fieldwork process.
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    Denying Kenyan girls their right to education

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    The Kenyan education authorities and non governmental organisations (NGOs) are becoming more aware of the need to address unequal access, high drop-out rates and poor quality of education for girls. However, Kenya has missed part of the Millennium Development Goal 3 target – elimination of gender disparities in education by 2005.
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    Freedom and responsibility: representative on freedom of the media

    Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, 2005
    This document outlines the global position of the media in 2004. Arguing that media is the very essence of the contemporary connotations of knowledge, the report outlines how the role of the media reflects democracy and freedom within society.The reports focuses on the growth of the internet which has increased the availability and volume of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ content.
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    Gender equality and empowerment of women through ICT

    UN, 2005
    This report provides a summary of critical gender equality issues related to ICT and development and outlines potential opportunities for women’s economic, social and political empowerment.
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    ICT policy formulation and e-strategy development: a comprehensive guidebook

    Asia-Pacifiic Development Information Program, 2005
    The aim of this guidebook is to explain the nature of people-focused ICT policy formulation and strategy development. It uses examples from the Asia-Pacific region and around the world. It focuses on the steps required in developing ICT policies, including appropriate e-readiness assessment methodologies, participatory methodologies and visioning exercises.
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    ICTs for poverty alleviation: basic tool and enabling sector

    Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2005
    This report reviews the evidence on how (or if) ICTs should be used in support of poverty reduction exercises.There is one characteristic that is common to most of the ICT-related poverty alleviation programs.

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