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Searching with a thematic focus on ICTs for development, Digital development in Bangladesh

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    ICT infrastructure in emerging Asia. Policy and regulatory roadblocks

    International Development Research Centre, 2008
    This book addresses an important question: can technology by itself improve access to ICTs or must the policy and regulatory pre-conditions be satisfied in order to realise the potential of technological and service innovations?
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    Women’s literacy training using ICTs

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    About 18 percent of adults worldwide remain illiterate, the majority of them women and mostly from the poor sectors of society. How common is the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for women’s literacy training and what strategies can help ensure a project is successful?
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    Global Information Society 2007

    Global Information Society Watch, 2007
    The Global Information Society Watch 2007 report - the first in a series of annual reports- looks at state of the field of information and communication technology (ICT) policy at local and global levels and particularly how policy impacts on the lives of people living in developing countries.
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    Peoples’ report on MDG: Bangladesh: information and communication technology

    Development Research Network, 2005
    This paper provides a critique of the current agenda for achieving the MDG as regards ICT in Bangladesh. The MDG target, which focuses on connectivity (by measuring phones, computers and internet per 100 people) is completely on the wrong footing, it argues, and unlikely to achieve the goal of poverty reduction. Specifically, the paper makes the following criticisms:
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    Development Research Network (D.Net)

    D.Net (Development Research Network) is a non-profit organization, which envisages to use information and communication technology (ICT) for economic development of Bangladesh.
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    Do literacy programmes for indigenous people ignore gender?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Adult education programmes developed for or by indigenous communities rarely address gender inequalities. Programmes often aim to promote indigenous people’s rights, including bringing together communities who are actually differentiated along lines of gender, class and age. Despite their commitment to adjusting unequal power relations, course designers rarely mention gender.
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    Partnerships will improve girls’ education

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    The Millennium Development Goal to achieve gender equality in education can only be met by concerted action. Stronger partnerships are needed to increase opportunities for the millions of girls and women excluded from education, but what kind?
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    Village phone replication manual: creating sustainable access to affordable telecommunications for the rural poor

    UN Information and Communication Technologies Task Force, 2005
    This document is a guideline for replicating the Village Phone programme in a new country.
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    Bridging the digital gender divide: issues and insights on ICT for Women’s Economic Empowerment

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2003
    This report looks at ICT initiatives that focus on disadvantaged women in South Asia. It reviews current policy and programmes and makes recommendations for future actionThe report includes a list of indicators for measuring gender awareness in project design and implementation
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    Providing low-cost ICT access to low-income communities in developing countries: what works? what pays?

    OECD Development Centre, 2003
    In recent years, a number of interesting experiments has been initiated to extend low-cost telephone and, in some cases, internet access to low-income rural communities.

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