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    Cooperation for a Water Wise World – Partnerships for Sustainable Development

    Stockholm International Water Institute, 2013
    This is the report from World Water Week 2013, held in Stockholm 1-6 September 2013. It provides input into the discussions at the event which was themed ‘Water Cooperation: Building Partnerships’.
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    Indicators for measuring ICT access

    Evidence on Demand, 2012
    Evidence on Demand was requested to support DFID in work on what the post MDG framework might look like. This brief report was prepared to consider the data availability and measurability of indicators for a proposed target to enable everybody to have access to telecommunications.
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    Economic Advice to final stages of business case development on Mobile Enhanced Utilities

    Evidence on Demand, 2012
    In 2012, there remain 1.4 billion people without access to energy and 783 million without access to improved water resources. Mobile penetration in Africa is estimated to reach 76 per cent by 2014 and more people have access to a mobile phone than to energy and water.
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    Analytical frameworks for assessing ICT and agribusiness startup ecosystems: for application in Ghana and Kenya

    Economic and Private Sector PEAKS, 2013
    DFID is exploring the analytical frameworks used to assess the support market system for startup businesses in the ICT and agribusiness sectors. The review of analytical frameworks will help inform a Terms of Reference (ToR) for carrying out startup ecosystem assessments in Ghana and Kenya.
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    Communicating climate change through social media: the Eldis experience

    Eldis Climate Change Resource Guide, 2013
    Eldis Climate Change Resource Guide experimented with social media tools for two months during April and May 2013, with the support of the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN). Although the guide already has a wide global audience, social media presence was considered a valuable addition in broadening CCRG’s global outreach and directly engaging with its users.
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    IDS Knowledge Services learning paper: Learning from Google AdWords marketing

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013
    In 2013, Eldis ran a number of experimental Google AdWords pay-per-click advertising campaigns with the objective of increasing traffic to the Eldis website, broadening our global audience and increasing the number of return visitors coming back to the site.
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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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