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    Latin American innovations in microfinance technology

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
    In Latin America, innovations in microfinance come not only from new technology, but by focusing on the people and processes making use of that technology, achieving important advances in scale and reach. Since microfinance is based on small loans with no formal information and no real guarantees, technology plays a key role in lowering transaction costs and increasing profitability.
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    Understanding needs, meeting demands: A user-oriented analysis of online knowledge broker platforms for climate change and development

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2013
    This IISD report examines the current state of alignment between climate knowledge brokering (CKB) platforms and the information-seeking and knowledge-sharing behaviour of users of online climate change information. It reviews the case for knowledge brokering and how brokering activities are put into practice online for climate change and development.
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    IGI Global

    IGI Global is an international academic publisher of more than 2,000+ reference books, 150+ journals, encyclopedias, teaching cases, proceedings, and databases covering the utilisation and management
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    The Global Information Technology Report 2013: Growth and Jobs in a Hyperconnected World

    World Economic Forum, 2013
    The Networked Readiness Index presented in this report ranks 144 economies based on their capacity to exploit the opportunities offered by the digital age. This capacity is determined by the quality of the regulatory, business and innovation environments, the degree of preparedness, the actual usage of ICTs, as well as the societal and economic impacts of ICTs.
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    BetterEvaluation

    BetterEvaluation is an international collaboration to improve evaluation practice and theory by sharing information about options (methods or tools) and approaches.
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    Equal access participatory monitoring and evaluation toolkit

    BetterEvaluation, 2013
    This toolkit aims to help communication for development (C4D) organisations to demonstrate the impacts and outcomes of their initiatives, listen to their listeners, continuously learn, and feed this learning back into the organisation and its practices.
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    Finnish Institute

    Finnish Institute in London is a private, non-profit trust bringing together individuals, communities and organisations.
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    The Open Book

    Finnish Institute, 2013
    Resulting from the first Open Knowledge Festival in 2012, The Open Book is a crowdsourced, multi-author publication built to contextualise the international movement for open knowledge in the words of those who are helping build it today.
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    Making ICT work for Bangladesh's farmers

    2012
    Agriculture is one of the major driving forces of the Bangladesh economy, providing employment to just under half the workforce and contributing around 20% towards national GDP; however, a significant proportion of those involved in agriculture, both as producers and labourers, live close to the poverty line.
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    Information Communication Technology (ICT) for Rural Women’s Life in Bangladeshi Villages

    2011
    Information Communication Technology (ICT) has the potential to contribute to development, especially in rural areas of developing countries. But the mechanisms through which ICT can be combined with development agendas and an understanding of the actual development process and impacts of ICT are less well understood or properly defined in the academic literature.

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