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New Media and International Media Development: A Resource Guide for Europe and Eurasia
Washington, DC: USAID (2008), 32 pp.
"This paper begins by analyzing the trends and technologies comprising new media. Social networking sites, new mobile phone technologies, and online broadcasting sites like YouTube are assessed to show how they can be incorporated in media assistance projects. The second section continues to examine
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Banking on Mobiles: Why, How, for Whom?
Washington, DC: Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) (2008), 27 pp.
"This paper examines how banks can translate the potential of mobile phones into greater financial access for poor people. Although mobile phone operators have been able to use the mobile phone for mobile remittance and bill payment services in several countries, banks have had little success in usi
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Towards Information Literacy Indicators: Conceptual Framework Paper
Paris: UNESCO (2008), 44 pp.
"This paper provides a conceptual framework for the identification of indicators of information literacy (IL) and proposes a pathway for cost effective and timely development. The paper includes a definition of IL; a model that links information literacy with other adult competencies including Infor
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Digital Review of Asia Pacific 2007-2008: Reports on 31 Economies and 2 Sub-Regional Associations
New Dehli: Sage India; Orbicom; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2008), xv, 373 pp.
"This edition (2007/2008) continues the tradition of providing an analytical overview of the state of ICT4D in Asia Pacific. It covers 31 countries and economies, including North Korea for the first time. Each country chapter is an attempt to provide a relatively comprehensive coverage of the variou
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The Guide to Researching Audiences
Key Guides
Guildford, Surrey: Curtis+Cartwright Consulting; Strategic Content Alliance (2008), 74 pp.
"This guide has been written for people in the UK public sector delivering online digital services who wish to research their audiences. Although it is focused on online digital services, it will also be useful for researching audiences reached via other channels. It is primarily aimed at non-expert
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Digital Media, Youth, and Credibility
Cambridge: MIT Press (2008), ix, 202 pp.
"This volume addresses the issue of credibility—the objective and subjective components that make information believable—in the contemporary media environment. The contributors look particularly at youth audiences and experiences, considering the implications of wide access and the questionable
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Compendium on Impact Assessment of ICT-for-Development Projects
Deep Insights
Ottawa: International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2008), iii, 155 pp.
"Billions of US dollars are invested each year by the public, NGO and private sectors in information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) projects such as telecentres, village phone schemes, e-health and e-education projects, e-government kiosks, etc. Yet we have very little sense
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Using Mobile Phones in Advocacy Campaigns
Amherst: MobileActive (2008), 14 pp.
The Promise of Ubiquity: Mobile as Media Platform in the Global South
Deep Insights
Paris: Internews Europe (2008), 89 pp.
"There have been an estimated 3.8 billion mobile phones in the world in 2008 and most of the growth has been taking place in the Global South. 15 million people in Africa now individually own mobile phones but do not have access to a TV at home. A higher percentage of Kenyans use mobile commerce tha
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Securing a Place for a Language in Cyberspace
Paris: UNESCO (2008), 72 pp.
"In order to promote and bolster linguistic and cultural diversity in cyberspace, the most underprivileged languages need help to gain access to it. If it is possible to do this with a small, oral, unwritten, endangered language, there is all the more reason why this should be possible with all poor
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BCO Impact Assessment Study: The Final Report
London: BCO Building Communication Opportunities (2008), 192 pp.
"This report investigates the impact media and ICTs can have on the lives of the poor, based on the experiences of nine donors and NGOs forming part of the "Building Communication Opportunities (BCO)" alliance. It suggests that radio will have the most influence on social and political change where
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Move Over Bangalore, Here Comes ... Palestine? Western Funding and "Internet Development" in the Shrinking Palestinian State
In: Global Communications: Toward a Transcultural Political Economy
Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield (2008), pp. 263-284
Aneignungen des Globalen: Internet-Alltag in der arabischen Welt. Eine Fallstudie in Marokko
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2008), 259 pp.
"Ängste und Hoffnungen verbinden sich mit den jungen Menschen, die in der arabischen Welt zwei Drittel der Bevölkerung ausmachen. Wie reagieren die Jugendlichen auf die Herausforderungen einer globalisierten Welt? Anhand der Internetnutzung marokkanischer Jugendlicher und den damit verbundenen Ane
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