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  Accessing agricultural information online: filling in the gaps

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Websites providing development-oriented information services for the agricultural sector are multiplying. This information growth, enabled by donor funding has not necessarily made it easier for users in developing countries to find and access relevant information. Many gaps and inconsistencies exist and much of the information available is not responsive to the demands of service users.
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  Mobiles and markets – providers of telephones for Africa’s rural poor?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Bridging the ‘digital divide’ – a gap between those who can access and use information technology and those who cannot – is seen as an essential part of development. Despite the wide publicity about promoting information and communication technologies (ICTs), most rural Africans still lack telephone services.
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  Communication for social change: a position paper and conference report

  Rockefeller Foundation, 1999

  This position paper from the Rockefeller Foundation sets out a vision of communications for social change, based on the findings of two conferences. It argues for a new approach to communications in development that builds on and moves beyond traditional approaches, and capitalises on opportunities presented by the modern communications environment.
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  Gender issues in the information society

  World Summit on the Information Society, 2003

  This paper explores the role and evolution of information and communication technologies in development. The authors point out that information and communication technologies could give a major boost to the economic, political and social empowerment of women, and the promotion of gender equality.
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  Making the difference: how schools influence gender identity

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Research in Botswana and Ghana indicates that daily life in schools is affected strongly by gender. A joint project by researchers at the University of Sussex in the UK, the University of Botswana and the University of Cape Coast in Ghana found that institutional practices and traditions can lead to a highly gendered school environment rarely challenged by students or teachers.
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  Open access to scholarly publications: a model for enhanced knowledge management? Reflections on the debate

  gpgNet: The global network on global public goods, 2004

  This paper summarises the preceedings of the gpgNet Web Forum that ran from September 20, 2004, through October 4, 2004, and included over 670 registered participants, who contributed approximately 140 electronic postings to the discussion.Participants stated that electronic publishing and the Internet itself seemingly offer the promise for academic and scientific findings to be made available
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  Hands-on computing with RunGTAP and WinGEM to introduce GTAP and GEMPACK

  Global Trade Analysis Project, 2003

  This document gives several examples of hands-on computing that may familiarise users with RunGTAP and GEMPACK software.
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  Is information technology workplace equal for women?: some observations from Indian software industry

  GDNet document store, 2004

  The participation of women in the information technology (IT) industry is low in most countries, and in India in 2003 they constituted only 21 per cent of the country’s 650,000 IT workers. This paper attempts to assess whether gender discrimination within the workplace is a major cause of this low participation rate.
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  Technology in schools: education, ICT and the knowledge society

  World Bank, 2004

  This paper examines how the rush to incorporate information and communication technology (ICT) in schools in developed countries is leading to a double challenge facing developing countries:first, developing countries face a growing educational divide in terms of access to digital resources and services and of human capacity to take advantage of themsecond, when addressing the issues i
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  Embedding ICT in development

  Capacity.org, 2004

  This collection of papers examines the need to embed ICT within work practices, to create linkages with policy-making, and to ensure that a range of different actors are included in decisions about strategy and the use of technology The papers are: Going beyond a project approach: embedding ICT support in a wider development context by Ingrid Hagen.

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