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  Simputer: computers for the poor or an idealistic dream?

  SciDev.Net, 2003

  This article discusses the Simputer, a handheld computing device with a touch-sensitive screen that can carry out many of the services carried out by 'normal' computers. In addition, it can function in several Indian languages, and a single device can be easily shared by a number of users in the same village. It could have many applications and even be used by the illiterate.
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  Sustaining ICT-enabled development: practice makes perfect?

  International Institute for Communication and Development, 2002

  This document reports on a workshop held in May 2002 that explored issues of sustainability ad ICT enabled development for poverty reduction.Some key conclusions from the discussions are:Despite the ICT-focus of the workshop, classic organisational and developmental factors (like human and institutional capacities, culture, ownership, participation, political will, etc.) recur over and
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  Handheld computer technologies in community service / volunteering / advocacy

  United Nations Information Technology Service, 2003

  This section of the site is a resource that collates examples of volunteers, citizens and grass roots advocates using handheld computers and personal digital assistants (PDAs) or phone devices as part of community service, volunteering and advocacy, or examples that could be applied to volunteer settings.
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  Reaching the poor: PSI provides health to low-income people

  Population Services International, 2003

  This paper describes the PSI approach to social marketing and how it uses that approach to deliver health products, services and information effectively to poor people in developing countries.The paper demonstrates that PSI fills the gap between free government programs targeted to the poorest of the poor and the fully commercial market targeted to the rich.
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  Capacity for development: new solutions to old problems: summary

  Reforming Technical Cooperation for Capacity Development, 2003

  Looks at what has gone right with technical cooperation in recent years, what has gone wrong, and how to do it better and perhaps very differently.
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  Free as in education: significance of the free/libre and open source software for developing countries

  World Summit on the Information Society, 2003

  The main objective of this report has been to analyse the significance and relevance of Free Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) for developing countries.
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  Scrapping the hi-tech myth: computer waste in India

  Toxics Link, 2003

  This report investigates the dumping of e-waste, particularly computer waste in India.
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  Social responsibility in the information society

  Information Society Project Office, EU, 2003

  This report investigates the changing nature of the relationship between business, society and technology in the Information Society and its implications for business and society.The report highlights the need for social innovation to respond to the disruptions created by the different features of the Information Society.
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  The status of teleaccess: inside Africa

  International Development Research Centre, 2003

  This map shows the current status of telephone and internet connectivity for people in Africa, depicting fixed-lines, mobile and local Internet access superimposed over population density.
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  W(h)ither the Digital Divide?

  Development Gateway, 2003

  This paper examines global patterns of access to information and communications technologies (ICTs). It confirms a divide in per-capita access to telecommunications and the Internet that, historically, has widened in absolute terms.

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