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Facilitating communications in response to HIV/AIDS in South-East Asia
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2001UNAIDS has coordinated an infoDev project in South-East Asia which promotes innovative projects for the use of information technologies with a special emphasis on the needs of the poor in developing countries. This case study focuses on phase two of the project with particular reference to three countries: the Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam.DocumentThe globalization of the software industry: perspectives and opportunities for developed and developing countries
National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2004The spectacular growth of the software industry in some non-G7 economies has aroused both interest and concern in the USA.DocumentScientific publications: free for all?
UK Parliament, 2004Academic libraries are struggling to purchase subscriptions to all the journal titles needed by their users. This is due both to the high and increasing journal prices imposed by commercial publishers and the inadequacy of library budgets to meet the demands placed upon them by a system supporting an ever increasing volume of research.DocumentHarnessing ICTs: A Canadian first nations experience. K-Net Program
Institute for Connectivity in the Americas, 2004This case study collection concerns the work of K-Net, a program of Keewaytinook Okimakanak (KO) tribal council in a remote region of northwestern Ontario, Canada.DocumentICT and development: east is east and west is west and the twain may yet meet
Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network, 2003The paper argues that huge amount of investment in information and communication technologies (ICTs) in developing countries, mainly through aid and assistance from donor agencies, have failed to realise the dream of helping these countries achieve national development.DocumentThwarted innovation: what happened to e-learning and why
Learning Alliance for Higher Education, USA, 2004This report examines the debate over the success or failure of e-learning in the USA. It tracked the changing attitudes about and perceptions of e-learning by faculty and technical staff over 18 months across a wide sample of US colleges and universities each with substantial investments in e-learning.DocumentUNDP best practices and know-how in ICT for Development
Regional Bureau for Europe and the CIS, United Nations Development Programme, 2004Contains a collection of knowledge-based best practices accumulated by UNDP in Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).DocumentInformation technologies and education for the poor in Africa (ITEPA): recommendations for a pro-poor ICT4D non-formal education policy
Imfundo, 2004Examines the ways in which ICTs can improve the skills of Africa’s young people and adults who do not have basic literacy skills and/or have not completed primary or secondary school.The report looks at: moving towards pro-poor ICT-based sustainable development modelswhy local content is central to African ICT4Dhow informational needs are critical both for individual developmentDocumentSupporting students by telephone: a technology for the future of student support?
European Journal of Open and Distance Learning, 2004This paper challenges the unexamined assumption that on-line communication will be the way of the future in open and distance learning.DocumentTowards a new consensus for addressing the global challenge of the lack of education
Copenhagen Consensus, 2004This paper considers the costs and benefits of opportunities available for developing countries to move towards the goals for education set by the Millennium Development Goals and the Education for All initiative.Through a broad review of the literature on education, it presents a case for reconsidering some of the assumptions and prevailing themes of the debates around the education goals, idePages