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    South-south technology transfer: criteria for evaluation of public policies in the BRICS countries

    BRICS Policy Center / Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas BRICS, 2013
    This Policy Brief reviews the existing literature concerned with analytical and conceptual models to evaluate technology transfer (TT) practices in cooperation projects, aiming at contributing to the formulation of effective public policies for the technological development in the BRICS countries.
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    Science, Technology and Arts Research Journal (STAR)

    STAR Journal is an open-access journal which publishes research related to the fields of Science, Technology and Arts.
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    A fine balance: mapping cyber (in)security in Latin America

    Igarape Institute, 2012
    Cyber-security is emerging as a dominant area of concern amongst many governments and civil societies across Latin America. Although the existence of cyberspace is already generating a massive evolution in all aspects of life, it is extending the reach of organised crime across time and space.
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    New technologies for improving old public security challenges in Nairobi

    Igarape Institute, 2014
    This paper maps out the digital environment shaping public security in selected informal settlements of Nairobi. In particular, the paper considers the diverse ways in which information communication technologies (ICTs) are being adopted by Kenyan police in informal settlements.
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    Catching the virtual bus: ICT for augmenting rural livelihoods

    Development Support Center, 2011
    Whereas plenty of literature is available on the technical aspects of watershed development and other livelihood strategies in India, not much has been written on the institutional aspects, entrepreneurial strategies or the role of ICT.  ICTs offer tremendous potential for strengthening rural livelihoods and diversifying the rural economy.
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    Revolutionising finance for agri-value chains

    Small Island Economies - CTA Brussels, 2014
    It is estimated that only 20% of populations in most developing countries have access to formal financial services, and in Africa only 4% of the total population have a bank account while only 1% of Africans have a loan or credit facility with a formal financing institution.
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    Using Information and Communication Technology to spport women's entrepreneurship in Central and West Asia

    Asian Development Bank, 2014
    For micro and small enterprises, the use of ICT has led not only to better business performance but also better living conditions. It can also be particularly effective in loosening constraints on women in enterprise development. However, women lag behind men in access to technology and use ICT differently. Understanding why can help leverage ICT to help women’s businesses.
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    In the fast lane: innovations in digital finance

    International Finance Corporation, 2014
    Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) poses many challenges to financial inclusion: basic infrastructure is relatively underdeveloped, populations are still very rural and therefore widely dispersed, and a large proportion of the population (48.5%) lives below the international poverty line of $1.25 per day.
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    Johns Hopkins University Global mHealth Initiative (Gml)

    The Global mHealth Initiative operates as a transdisciplinary initiative that enables the University to focus its broad research talent on broad systems-based challenges of mHealth.
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    AMA ‘Aponjon’ Formative Research Report

    Johns Hopkins University Global mHealth Initiative, 2013
    The Aponjon initiative (meaning close one/dear one) was launched under the Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action in December 2012 after a formative research phase.

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