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    The social sciences in Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe: a report of an inventory conducted by the universities of Dar es Salam, Eduardo Mondlane, Makerere and Zimbabwe

    Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2004
    This report is an inventory of the social science teaching and research in Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.
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    Free and Open Source Software(FOSS) e-discussion

    Asia-Pacifiic Development Information Program, 2004
    The Free and Open Source Software(FOSS) e-discussion, is being launched to debate on Policy and Development Implications of using FOSS and to build wider consensus on FOSS as an innovative Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) framework, which can be used to stretch the development dollar and dramatically scale up the impact of various interventions.
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    Literacy skills – proven pathway out of poverty

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    At least 1.2 billion poor people are not able to read or write. This restricts their ability to carry out every day activities such as read signposts, understand medicine labels and machinery instructions, confirm commercial transactions and avoid being cheated. Increasing the pool of literate and numerate people is essential to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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    The new information technologies and women: essential reflections

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2003
    This document is the background study for a discussion of experts on "Globalisation, technological change and gender equity" in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, on 5 and 6 November 2001.
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    Knowledge and development: a cross-section approach

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2004
    This paper assesses the effects of knowledge on economic growth.
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    Open source survey results

    DotOrg Media, 2004
    This paper presents the results of a survey on the use of free and open source software among non-profit organisations.
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    The realities of Free/Libre/Open Source Software developers in Japan and Asia

    First Monday, 2004
    This paper examines regional differences in the use of Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS). The authors conducted two surveys – one in Japanese (FLOSS-JP) and one in other Asian languages (FLOSS-ASIA).
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    FLOSS developers as a social formation

    First Monday, 2004
    This paper takes a closer look at FLOSS developers and their projects to find out how they work, what holds them together and how they interact. This article aims at understanding FLOSS with a holistic approach, i.e. understanding the field as a whole, as well as the interaction between various internal phenomena.
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    Government open source software trials final report

    Office of Government Commerce, 2004
    In September 2003 the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) announced that they would be coordinating, with the support of the Office of the e-Envoy, "Proof of Concept" trials of Open Source Software (OSS) in a range of public bodies in conjunction with IBM and Sun Microsystems. This report by OGC summarises the key findings from these trials.
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    ICT and literacy: who benefits?: experience from Zambia and India

    Commonwealth of Learning, 2004
    This paper reflects the findings of a three-and-a-half-year project that tested how useful various information and communication technology applications were in providing literacy programmes.The project highlighted a number of the issues that arise from ICT implementation in the developing world:ICT projects need to be planned around, or address lack of internet connectivity in many are

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