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Social Media in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
In: Einführung in die Entwicklungspolitik
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2013), pp. 367-380
Health on the Move: Can Mobile Phones Save Lives?
London: BBC Media Action (2013), 24 pp.
"With its rapidly expanding penetration within the developing world, mobile telephony offers major new opportunities to build upon and augment existing health communication efforts. As Usha Kiran Tarigopula of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation India Programmes put it: “It is increasingly… clea
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Connecting People for Development: Why Public Access ICTs Matter
Seattle: University of Washington Information School, Technology & Social Change Group (2013), 240 pp.
"Libraries, telecenters, and cybercafés play a critical role in extending the benefits of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to a diverse range of people worldwide. However, their ability to contribute to development agendas has come into question in recent times. The Global Impact S
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Will the Social Media Lenses be the Framework for Sustainable Development in Rural Nigeria?
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 5, issue 2 (2013), pp. 237-254
"As academia, development experts and policy-makers have continued to search for the right mix of technology, methodology, easy-to-use and understandable scientific elements and infrastructure that would suit the nation’s peculiar circumstances towards meeting her developmental needs. This situati
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ICTs and Development: A Study of Telecentres in Rural India
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2013), xiii, 264 pp.
"This volume juxtaposes the global discourse on ICT-D and telecentres with in-depth empirical case studies on the pattern of access and use of telecenters in rural India to draw implications for policy and practice. It suggest that access and use of telecentres and their services are mediated by the
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Spider Stories 2012
Kista; Stockholm: Spider – The Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions; Stockholm University (2013), 99 pp.
"In Spider Stories 2012 you will get an overview of results from Spider projects initiated in 2011-2012 in collaboration with project partners in Cambodia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. In partnership with local organizations, we have supported innovative projects in democracy, education, and
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Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
In: Einführung in die Entwicklungspolitik
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2013), pp. 338-348
Neue Medien
Nah Dran (GIZ), issue 1 (2013), pp. 12-27
Telecentres for Sustainable Rural Development: Review and Case Study of a South African Rural Telecentre
Development Southern Africa, volume 30, issue 2 (2013), pp. 262-278
"This paper evaluates a South African rural telecentre that may serve as a ‘best practice’ model. The paper first provides a brief literature review of telecentres and the role of information and communication technology in economic development. A qualitative evaluation of a case study is presen
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Technologies of Choice? ICTs, Development, and the Capabilities Approach
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (2013), xii, 267 pp.
"Drawing on Amartya Sen's capabilities approach to development - which shifts the focus from economic growth to a more holistic, freedom-based idea of human development - Dorothea Kleine examines the relationship between ICTs, choice, and development. Kleine proposes a conceptual framework, the Choi
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The Transformational Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Africa
Washington, DC: World Bank (2012), 164 pp.
Social Media in Development Cooperation
Malmö; Roskilde: Orecomm Centre for Communication and Glocal Change (2012), 90 pp.
"This publication is an outcome of the Ørecomm Festival 2011 and presents Paula Uimonen (The Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions), Petter Åttingsberg (International Media Support) Stine Kirstein Junge (United Nations Development Programme), Birgitte Jallov (independent consultant), and R
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Bigger Cities, Smaller Screens: Urbanization, Mobile Phones, and Digital Media Trends in Africa
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2012), 36 pp.
"As Africa becomes increasingly urban, the reach and use of mobile telephones and other portable digital devices inevitably are becoming a mass medium. This shift creates new opportunities for existing broadcasters and publishers. And it creates new opportunities for a much larger number of new inde
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The Use of Jokes and Mobile Telephony to Create Counter-Publics in Zimbabwe
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 4, issue 2 (2012), pp. 243-255
"This article discusses how ordinary Zimbabweans use jokes and mobile phones to construct their counter-publics. Jokes are an important part of the oral public sphere and have been used as outlets for political expectoration, to navigate and subvert state power and media censorship. Most of the joke
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Tunisia: From Revolutions to Institutions
Washington, DC: infoDev Information for Development Program (2012), 121 pp.
"The study “Tunisia: from revolutions to institutions” stresses how technology-oriented small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) can generate economic expansion and job growth, including in the economically-isolated interior provinces. Tunisian ICT companies are likely to find an attractive marke
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"Despite the massive uptake of mobile phones by agricultural producers, there are few quantitative studies that provide hard evidence of a link between technology and poverty reduction. Those studies that have explored this, however, found that farmer access to market information through radio, mobi
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Communications for Change: How to Use Text Messaging as an Effective Behavior Change Campaigning Tool
FrontlineSMS; Text to Change (2012), 7 pp.
"Getting SMS campaigns right is not simple. The right content, delivered at the right time in the right context, is critical. Adding the right kind of interaction to campaigns can make them more engaging, and increase their power in encouraging positive change. Positive behavior change campaigns sho
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