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Searching with a thematic focus on Ageing, ICTs for development, Digital development

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  Fostering a digitally inclusive aging society in China: the potential of public libraries

  World Bank, 2014

  China faces policy challenges related to the well-being of its ageing population. What distinguishes it is that rapid population ageing is occurring at a significantly lower income level than in comparable countries. Further, the country's one child policy has resulted in a limited caregiver base.
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  Access to climate change information and support services by the vulnerable groups in semi-arid Kenya for adaptive capacity development

  African Crop Science Society, 2012

  Despite being projected to face the greatest impact of climate change, vulnerable people of the semi-arid regions of sub-Saharan Africa have inadequate access to the support services and information they need to build their adaptive capacity to an effective level.
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  Electronic payment for cash transfer programmes: Cutting costs and corruption or an idea ahead of its time?

  HelpAge International, 2012

  There is growing interest in the use of electronic payment (e-payment) systems in cash transfer programmes. When cash is transferred to beneficiaries through e-payment technologies such as mobile phone accounts or smartcards, there is potential to cut costs and reduce corruption compared with physical payment methods.
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  ICT enabled independent living for elderly

  2010

  We are living in the midst of an unprecedented transition: the rapid ageing of the inhabitants of the industrialised world, accompanied by a diminishing number of young people. Figures in the Green Paper on Demographic Change launched by the Commission show that by 2030 there will be a shortage of about 20.8 million people of working age in the EU.
• Organisation

  LeadingAge Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST)

  The Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST) is working to expedite the development, evaluation and adoption of emerging technologies that will transform the ageing experience.
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  Healthy @ home

  American Association of Retired Persons International Section, 2008

  Older adults and family caregivers are willing to use new technologies (such as telemedicine and telepharmacy) that can allow people to remain independent - and in their own homes - as they age.
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  Post offices, pension and computers: new opportunities for combining growth and social protection in weakly-integrated rural areas?

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2003

  India’s efforts in targeting a wide range of social protection measures towards different categories of poor people might be a model for other countries as they prepare their own Poverty Reduction Strategies.