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  Engendering ICT toolkit

  World Bank, 2005

  The purpose of this toolkit is to identify opportunities, highlight innovative projects and activities, and suggest how the World Bank and other agencies can help realize the potential for gender equality in access to and use of information and communication technologies.
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  The causal relationship between ICT and FDI

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2005

  This paper investigates the simultaneous causal relationship between investments in information and communication technology (ICT) and flows of foreign direct investment (FDI), with reference to its implications on economic growth.
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  Global networked readiness for education

  World Bank Institute, World Bank, 2003

  This series of global and national reports contain preliminary findings from the September - November 2003 pilot deployment of the Global Networked Readiness for Education Survey Toolkit.
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  Gender and ICTs for development: a global sourcebook

  Royal Tropical Institute, 2005

  This book is a collection of case studies about women and their communities in developing countries and how they have been influenced by ICTs. The book proposes that ICTs and policies to encourage their development can have profound implications for women and men in terms of employment, education, health, environmental sustainability and community development.
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  Open to development: Open-Source software and economic development

  International Policy Network, 2004

  This paper examines the role that open-source software can play in an economy and its development, with a focus on empirical evidence and economic logic.
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  Review of telecenter sustainability criteria for the establishment of sustainable rural business resource centers for SMEs in developing countries

  United Nations [UN] Industrial Development Organization, 2004

  This paper addresses the sustainability issue of telecenters.
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  Factors and impacts in the information society - a prospective analysis in Estonia

  Estonian Institute of Economics, Tallinn Technical University, 2004

  Traditionally, Estonia has been a user rather than a producer of information and communication technologies (ICT). However, with the inflow of foreign investments, mainly from Sweden and Finland, the IT infrastructure of the Estonian firms has been completely renovated and converged to the level of their host companies.
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  The politics of Open Source adoption

  Social Science Research Council, USA, 2005

  This work in progress looks at the political processes influencing the adoption of Free/Open Source software (F/OSS).Techncially, it is presented in wiki format, with an invitation for readers to contribute their own experience.The history looks at how open source is becoming embedded in political arenas and policy debates.
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  Open Source software in schools: a study of the spectrum of use and related ICT infrastructure costs

  British Educational Communications and Technology Agency, 2005

  This report compares the cost and effectiveness of using Open Source software (OSS) and proprietary software in UK schools. It finds that: OSS can be implemented successfully as a networking solution within the technical infrastructure and with obvious cost benefits. The annual total cost per PC was less for nearly all the OSS schools at both primary and secondary school levels.
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  Comparison study of Free/Open Source and Proprietary Software in an African context: implementation and policy-making to optimise community access to ICT

  Bridges.org, 2005

  This surveys looks at the software used by public-access computer labs in Namibia, South Africa and Uganda.

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