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  The Importance of ICTs in the Provision of Information for Improving Agricultural Productivity and Rural Incomes in Africa

  2012

  Information and communication technologies (ICTs) developments have taken place in Africa with the significant growth over the past decade.
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  ICT Use In The Developing World: An Analysis of Differences In Computer And Internet Penetration

  2006

  Computer and Internet use, especially in developing countries, has expanded rapidly in recent years. Even in light of this expansion in technology adoption rates, penetration rates differ markedly between developed and developing countries and across developing countries.
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  Evidence on the impact of R&D and ICT investment on innovation and productivity in Italian firms

  2012

  Both Research and Development (R&D) and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) investment have been identified as sources of relative innovation underperformance in Europe vis-à-vis the United States. In this paper we investigate R&D and ICT investment at the firm level in an effort to assess their relative importance and to what extent they are complements or substitutes.
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  Information and communications technology in chronic disease care: Why is adoption so slow and is slower better?

  2007

  Unlike the widespread adoption of information and communications technology (ICT) in much of the economy, adoption of ICT in clinical care is limited. We examine how a number of not previously emphasized features of the health care and ICT markets interact and exacerbate each other to create barriers for adoption.
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  Connectivity: How mobile phones, computers and the internet can catalyze Women's Entrepreneurship

  2012

  This research is focused on India to examine how ICTs are changing economic opportunities for poor and low-income women. India is a dynamic setting for three important trends: a rapidly expanding ICT sector, an increased role for women in the marketplace, and an emerging economic and policy environment poised for growth and social inclusion.
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  The Role of ICT in Enhancing Local Economic Development and Poverty Reduction

  2008

  The paper discusses the foundations for establishing a viable and sustainable ICT industry and the opportunities it offers against the challenges many African countries face in their concerted efforts to participate fully in the information society and knowledge economy.
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  Gender Assessment of ICT Access and Usage in Africa

  Research ICT Africa Network, 2010

  This paper aims to provide the kind of disaggregated data required to identify areas of inequity in access to ICTs between men and women and any differences in their usage at the national level and comparatively across countries. This should provide a basis for policy makers to develop interventions aimed at ensuring greater gender equity in relation to access and usage of ICTs.
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  Gender Empowerment through ICTs: Potential and Challenges for Women in the Caribbean

  2006

  Information communication technologies (ICTs) have been promoted as tools for national development and for gender empowerment in many developing countries. In the Caribbean, governments, non-governmental organizations and training institutes play a key role in ensuring access to ICTs among women.
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  Incorporating Gender Issues in ICT Policy-Making and e-Strategy Formulation

  2013

  This paper takes a broad overview of the issues of gender and ICT from a policy-making perspective. The specific objective of this paper is to provide a systematic framework for incorporating gender issues in ICT policy documents.
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  Gender and ICTs for Development: A global sourcebook

  2005

  This book is a contribution to the field of gender and ICTs for development and is unique for two reasons. First, the collection of papers in this volume builds on a wider initiative of the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) in the Netherlands to compile state-ofthe-art knowledge on Gender, Society and Development.

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