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  Village information centres: harnessing local knowledge via interactive media

  MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, 2003

  This document presents recommendations for policy makers in India and at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) drawn from a workshop that took place on 8-9 October, 2003 in Chennai, India.
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  Open Source in developing countries

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2003

  This report reviews open source software (OSS) options in developing countries, and recommends specific donor interventions.While there have been many recent announcements of developing countries adopting OSS products, many of those have been one-sided directions which have not examined the entire gamut of impact and potential of OSS.
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  Aiming high: how can women climb the academic and occupational ladders?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Despite improvements during the last two or three decades, access to higher education remains a problem for women in many countries and the proportion of women decreases significantly at higher levels of the academic and occupational ladder. What guidance can an inventory of successful strategies to advance the status and participation of women in this sector offer to similar programmes?
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  Promoting youth employment through information and communication technologies (ICT): best practices examples in Asia and the Pacific

  International Labour Organization, 2001

  This paper provides examples of ICT-related employment opportunities for young people to illustrate best practice principles such as:promoting youth entrepreneurshippromoting public and private partnershipstargeting vulnerable groups of young peoplebridging the gap between the digital economy and the informal sector and putting young people in chargeSome ICT-related emp
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  Sharing knowledge: innovations and remaining challenges

  Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 2003

  This report evaluates how successful the World Bank has been at becoming the ‘global knowledge bank’ it committed to being in 1996.The review finds that over these first six years, the Bank has made progress in establishing the tools and activities to support its knowledge initiative.
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  Learning to make policy: comparing British, Japanese, Swedish and World Bank aid

  Economic and Social Research Council, UK, 2003

  This report discusses the findings and outcomes of a three-year research project on how four donor agencies’ learning and knowledge strategies inform their policy-making. This research resulted in the first book-length academic study of the architecture of knowledge in agencies, and makes an original contribution to aid theory.
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  Appropriating the internet for social change: towards the strategic use of networked technologies by transitional civil society organizations

  Information Technology and International Cooperation Programme, SSRC, 2003

  This paper looks at how to catalyze a broader trend of appropriation and strategic use of networked technologies within civil society.
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  Digital empowerment: a strategy for ICT for Development (ICT4D) for DESO

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2003

  This report outlines the strategy of the Sida Department of Democracy and Social Development (DESO) for integrating ICT as a tool for democracy and social development, from a rights-based perspective. DESO will primarily focus on activities and processes surrounding ICTs, rather than technical issues.
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  The contribution of ICT investment to economic growth and labor productivity in Poland 1995-2000

  Transformation, Integration and Globalization Economic Research, Poland, 2003

  What has been the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) on economic growth and productivity in post-communist transition countries in the 1990’s?
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  How much information?: 2003

  School of Information Management and Systems, University of California at Berkeley, 2003

  This study is an attempt to estimate how much new information is created each year. Newly created information is distributed in four storage media – print, film, magnetic, and optical – and seen or heard in four information flows – telephone, radio and TV, and the Internet.

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