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    Global internet governance: India's search for a new paradigm

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2014
    There is an on-going 'global war' for internet governance (and it has heated up considerably during the current year). As the battles rage, the entire debate has become even more confusing as it has got mired in complicated jargon being tossed about by various stakeholders.
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    Reimagining multistakeholderism: challenges for internet governance

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2014
    As the internet has assumed increasing importance across the world, who governs the online sphere is becoming a burning question. The current governance architecture is anachronistic, as American-incorporated organisations like the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) continue to administer what was once an American, but is now unquestionably a global, phenomenon.
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    Drones and India: exploring policy and regulatory challenges posed by civilian unmanned aerial vehicles

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2015
    ndia currently operates close to 50 drones in various military,
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    Technology at work: the future of innovation and employment

    Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology, 2015
    The 21st century has already brought remarkable technological achievements. The leading corporations of the digital age — including YouTube, Facebook and eBay — barely existed only a decade ago. The Human Genome Project was completed in 2003, the year Skype was first released. The first iPhone was launched in 2007 and in 2010 Google announced their first fully autonomous car.
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    Agiletown: the relentless march of technology and London’s response

    Deloitte, 2014
    Throughout history, advances in technology have transformed commercial activity and the jobs that people do, never more so than today with the accelerating pace of change in digitisation and robotics. The continuing impact of technology on jobs needs a response from policy makers, businesses and educators.
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    Women in the digital economy: breaking through the equality threshold

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2013
    Changes in demographics and education, and female emancipation itself, are laying bare the need to promote greater efficiency and equity in markets so as to make use of women’s capabilities. And they are casting more light on the structural injustice underpinning the current economic and social structure.
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    Linking savings accounts to mobile phones: are potential users interested?

    International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2014
    In the last decade, the micro-credit sector has expanded the world over. A great deal of interest is now being focussed on the development potential of mobilising micro-savings by channeling the liquidity of the poor into the formal banking sector. A new wave of technological innovations, from mobile banking to ATM cards, has aimed at reducing the transactions costs for small accounts.
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    Issues and Challenges of Climate Change for Women Farmers in the Caribbean: The potential of ICTs

    2009
    This paper focuses on the potential role of organic farming for regional food security and for addressing climate change impacts in the Caribbean. The correlation between access to quality information and livelihood security is also explored and the particular implications for women farmers.
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    An analysis of the mobile telephone sector in MENA: potential for deregulation and privatization

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2011
    This study evaluates the growth and trend in the mobile telephone sector in several Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries between 1995 and 2007.
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    Right to Information Learning Programme in India for civil society and media representatives of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014
    Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), New Delhi (CHRI) organised a Learning Programme on the Right to Information (RTI-LP) for representatives of civil society, media and academia from Commonwealth member States- Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda in East Africa, between 16-26 March 2014, with support from the Department for International Development (DfID), India office.

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