"This primer is intended to help policy-makers and decision-makers understand the potential use of free and open source software (FOSS) in education—where and how it can be used, why it should be used, and what issues are involved. In particular, officials in ministries of education, school and un
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iversity administrators, academic staff and researchers should find this primer useful." (Preface)
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"[...] nuestra compilación presenta un conjunto de reflexiones realizadas en el ámbito académico por autores que actúan como investigadores que realizan su labor en universidades nacionales. Abordamos un área de investigación con una amplia producción teórica en el resto de América Latina,
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pero que en nuestro país -pese a la nutrida experiencia empírica acumulada- todavía no cuenta con la difusión que se merece y necesita. Por eso presentamos una serie de artículos cuyos autores abordan la relación entre los procesos comunicativos y los proyectos sobre desarrollo, tanto desde una perspectiva teórica y metodológica como a través del análisis y la descripción de experiencias concretas." (Resumen)
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"Rural African women’s disadvantaged position in relation to accessing developmental information and participating in education is well-known. It has been posited that radio broadcasting is potentially a tool which could help overcome some of their disadvantages. Through an empirical case-study of
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radio broadcasting in Eritrea, the research examines the extent to which radio is fulfilling this potential educational and developmental role in relation to rural women. The practical and socio-cultural factors influencing the production of educational and developmental programmes by broadcasters are explored as well as the meaning and attraction that such programmes hold for listeners. For rural women, a model is proposed, based on the research results, which shows the determinants of interest in and uptake of educational and developmental radio. It identifies the obstacles to hearing and understanding the radio, as well as four important factors, namely, the need to feel the relevance of radio content, to like it, to have a sufficiently positive self-image in relation to radio listening, and to believe it. For broadcasters, a second model is proposed, showing a range of factors which are mostly negatively influencing the production of programmes for rural women in Eritrea. These are related mainly to broadcasters’ self-images, their organisational constraints, their working ethos, and the ideological and political factors governing the way broadcasting is planned and structured." (Abstract)
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"The inception of the research project came from the realization of the tremendous potential of the Sabido Method Entertainment Education Dramas. The Sabido method dramas have been tried out and proven to have a remarkable success in many countries in promoting pro social issues. The thesis thus too
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k the two Sabido Method Entertainment-Education Serial Radio Dramas, the Amharic Yeken Kignit and the Afan Oromo Dhimbiba dramas as practical examples and examined the contribution of the dramas to the HIV/AIDS prevention endeavors in the Ethiopian context." (Abstract)
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"Vietnam and Peru are two examples of countries that, in the past decade, surpassed WHO targets. This paper synthesizes the lessons learned from those two programs, with a particular emphasis on the role of strategic health communication in each program. The conclusions in this paper are drawn from
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two in-depth reports — 'The Role of Health Communication in Vietnam’s Fight Against Tuberculosis' and 'The Role of Health Communication in Peru’s Fight Against Tuberculosis' — as well as a focused literature review." (Page 1)
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"Los resultados de la Consulta muestran que los pobres atendidos por el Hogar de Cristo y por el Servicio País perciben negativamente las modalidades en que son representados en la televisión abierta. Los participantes opinan que la televisión los vincula con categorías sociales estigmatizadas (
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delincuentes, drogadictos, marginales), los asocia a sujetos que están en condiciones precarias de presentación y apariencia personal (sucios/cochinos, mal vestidos) y que se encuentran en situación de carencia (necesitados), y los presenta como personas que tienen atributos psicológicos, relacionales y existenciales deficitarios (desamparados, abandonados, flojos, irresponsables, incapaces). Al mismo tiempo, los asistentes a las asambleas no identifican atributos positivos o socialmente deseables del pobre representado en la televisión, y se pronuncian críticamente sobre la veracidad de las representaciones, señalando que la televisión solamente muestra lo negativo u oculta la pobreza. En lo relativo a las causas, la mayoría de las atribuciones que realizan los participantes en las asambleas son negativas, y tienden a centrarse en factores vinculados a los propósitos comerciales (búsqueda de rating e incremento de ventas), y al estilo dominante de hacer televisión (sensacionalismo, explotación de la morbosidad). Estas causas son señaladas para todos los atributos de la representación del pobre que alcanzaron los mayores pesos en la consulta, como se puede apreciar en la tabla 9. También se destaca la manipulación política (o de otro tipo), y se menciona, aunque en menor medida, el uso sistemático de lo peor de la vida de los pobres, la visibilidad de los problemas que los afectan y su alta vulnerabilidad (pocas posibilidades de hacer respetar sus derechos e impedir la utilización televisiva)." (Conclusiones, página 38)
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"This updated and expanded book provides practical information for those planning programmes to improve community health. It presents a state-of-the-art review of current practice in developing countries as well as approaches from industrialised countries. The overall structure of the book follows t
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he pattern of basic concept - core theory - specific methods - implementation. Chapter 1 provides an introduction to health education and health promotion. Chapters 2-4 are the core chapters, dealing with human behaviour, communication and teaching. Chapters 5-10 give details of communication methods for different target groups: individuals and small groups (face-to-face), communities, and school children and out-of-school youths. They also deal with the popular and mass media. Chapter 11 provides guidelines on planning, evaluation and implementation. The author states that what may work in one community may not work in another. He stresses the need to apply these methods in a systematic way, learn from mistakes, involve the communities and evaluate, in order to improve the effectiveness of the activities." (https://www.ircwash.org/resources)
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"This review mission covers the period from the start of the Regional Training Programme in Environment Journalism and Communication in the Eastern African Region in February 2002 until September 2003. In other circumstances this would be referred as a pilot phase. The main conclusion of this review
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is that there are needs to focus, refine and reconsider objectives as well as the organizational structure and the development of quality in the implementation capacity of the programme to improve its efficiency and effectiveness." (Executive summary)
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"Uzbekistan faces severe ecological problems including the rapidly shrinking Aral Sea, desertification, residues of biochemical weapons, and environmentally related respiratory disease. Even so, the country’s print and broadcast media do little in-depth or analytical reporting on environmental iss
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ues, nor are journalists trained to cover such topics. In Spring 2002, a U.S. Fulbright lecturer at the Uzbek State World Languages University and his Uzbek colleague developed the first envirojournalism course at any university in Uzbekistan. The pilot course faced administrative and operational obstacles. It was also hindered by students’ inadequate scientific backgrounds and their limited access to information and resources." (Abstract)
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"In many ways, this book is a simple and straightforward product of social science research. A conceptual expectation was created through the integration and extension of existing theory and research findings. The responsiveness argument presented in chapter 2 lead to the expectation that aid bureau
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cracies will try to roughly match the levels of aid they offer with their perception of the domestic political importance of the recipient. It was argued that the news media provide a simple, clear and easily accessible indicator of that importance and, as a result, it was expected that aid bureaucracies will respond to the content of the news media by matching development aid allocations with levels of coverage. From that conceptual foundation, a comparative battery of tests were conducted to evaluate the empirical implications of that expectation, and to address at least a few of the obvious potential objections or critiques. In analysis after analysis, the predicted relationship was found: aid levels and media coverage are clearly correlated." (Page 137)
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