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  Globalization and technology: Africa's participation and perspectives

  African Technology Policy Studies Network, 2002

  Can World Trade Organization (WTO) agreements, particularly the technology related provisions, enlarge the capabilities of African countries to procure and develop modern technologies?
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  Technical consultation on the integration of statistical and agricultural market information services. Proceedings of a CTA workshop

  Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, 2003

  This technical consultation tackled issues around the sustainability and effectiveness of market information services (MIS) at the local, national and regional level in the ACP region.
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  Bridging information gaps between farmers, policymakers, researchers and development agents

  Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, 2003

  Information is a prerequisite for development, both in agriculture and more broadly. Information gaps are direct impediments to development and need to be overcome. On the other hand, it is not just any kind of information that is required. Information overload is quickly becoming a problem not only for policy-makers and researchers in the North, but to anyone with access to the Internet.
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  Information and communication technology and development [in the Arab world]

  World Summit on the Information Society, 2003

  This paper focuses on the current status and recent trends of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), and accordingly, prospects for development in the Arab world arguing that present shortcomings and future challenges imposed on Arab countries must be translated into opportunities for future public-private sector collaboration, with a major role for NGOs.Initially the report present
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  Barriers to distance education

  American Council on Education, 2002

  Technology provides higher education with the potential to disseminate knowledge to more people than ever before. Despite the promise of distributed education and continued advancements in technology, significant barriers remain. This paper describes the barriers to distance learning, both inside and outside the higher education community in the US.
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  The right to tell: the role of mass media in economic development. Chapter 1: into the looking glass: what the media tell and why: an overview

  World Bank, 2002

  This book explores the role of the media as a watchdog of government and the corporate sector, and the policies that prevent the media from exercising that role. It assesses the media’s function as transmitters of new ideas and information. Chapter 1 only is available online.
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  Round table on “overcoming obstacles to the development of an information society: a business solution”: Geneva, 24-25 February 2003

  Project on Population Ageing, Economic Commission for Europe, 2003

  The objective of the Round Table was to create a forum for a public-private dialogue to identify possible solutions for the foundation of an information society, and to identify constraints facing the corporate sector and Governments that prevent these solutions from being implemented.
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  A passion for radio

  Comunica, 2001

  This book presents twenty-one alternative radio experiences from countries on each continent.
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  The internet under surveillance

  Reporters Without Borders [Reporters Sans Frontières], 2003

  This paper assesses the level of freedom of censorship of the internet and the misinformation therein. The bulk of the paper is taken up by detailed country by country analyses of the legal and cultural status of the internet.The paper concludes by asking: is the United Nations against freedom of expression?
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  Guidelines: initiation of e-government pilot projects

  Central IT unit for Northern Ireland CITU (CITUNI), 2003

  This paper responds to the Prime Ministers’ target of having a capability undertake all dealings with government electronically either by telephone, by computer or through television.This manual offers guidance on the initiation of such pilot projects.

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