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    Labouring Women, Enterprising States – A Research Study on Women, Information Technology and Narratives of Entrepreneurship

    IT for Change, 2014
    This document explores the structural-institutional facets of the relationship between women entrepreneurs, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and the mainstream discourse on entrepreneurship.
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    Malaysia: Violence against Women and ICT

    Association for Progressive Communications, 2009
    Can information and communication technologies (ICT) change the ways women experience and confront violence? This paper argues that ICT issues are still seen largely in terms of technology and access to technology, rather than as issues with cross-cutting effects on gender, socio-cultural relations or even the environment.
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    How Technology is Being Used to Perpetrate Violence Against Women – And to Fight it

    Association for Progressive Communications, 2010
    How are new technologies used by abusers of violence against women and how are they used by women fighting back? This briefing reveals new research on this topic. The cases were uncovered in research commissioned by the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) in 12 developing countries in 2009.
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    Women & Mobile: A Global Opportunity - A Study on the Mobile Phone Gender Gap in Low-and Middle- Income Countries

    GSMA, 2010
    What kind of tools do people at the base of the economic pyramid need to find employment and to build businesses that will enable them to eventually escape poverty? This article argues that mobile phones are tools that have the capacity of empowering the poor.
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    Towards Evidence-based ICT Policy and Regulation: Gender Assessment of ICT Access and Usage in Africa

    2010
    How can access to ICTs be improved for women in Africa?  This study explores the gender inequities of access and usage in 17 countries of East, Central, South and West Africa. It argues that the diffusion of ICTs is highly uneven, concentrating in urban areas and leaving some rural areas almost untouched.
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    Accessing infrastructure

    Research ICT Africa Network, 2013
    A newly released study by Research ICT Africa (RIA) provides a sex-disaggregated overview of ICT access and use across 11 African countries which highlights the unevenness of access to ICTs. The study unmasks the gender dimensions of the limited sex-disaggregated ICT indicators available.
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    Cybercrime: a complex problem requiring a multi-faceted response

    Institute for Security Studies, 2014
    The Internet has revolutionised the way in which businesses, government and the public interact. However, criminal actors have used this to their advantage. Given reports that Africa is¤becoming a cybercrime safe harbour, this problem could hamper economic growth, foreign investment and security.
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    The rise of China's state-led media dynasty in Africa

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2012
    The Chinese government is using the media for diplomacy, bringing a new, competitive element to influence states. China is actively introducing its culture and values, and distributing favourable images through its media to achieve its goals of reducing fears of its military strength, developing closer relations with developing nations and expanding its international influence.
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    Strategy for Sustainable Agriculture

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2011
    The food price crisis of the last decade provided an impetus to the discussions on sustainable development of agriculture. What has since emerged is the belief that agricultural policies need to be revamped to meet the growing demands for food and fibre in most countries.
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    Using interactive web tools in environmental planning to improve communication about sustainable development

    Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2014
    This article examines how communication in the context of environmental issues can be supported by modern web tools, social media, and new visualization approaches. Furthermore, the potential of social media to support communication about sustainability on a local scale and the prerequisites for its use in the planning process are discussed.

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