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"A lo largo de este documento, se describirá el panorama mundial de los telecentros en los países del Sur, su evolución y su desarrollo. Esta revisión del “estado del arte” se hará tanto por regiones geográficas, analizando las experiencias que se están llevando a cabo en América, Asia y ... more

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Khmer Internet: Cambodia Case Study

Michael Minges, Vanessa Gray, Lucy Firth

Geneva: ITU (2002), 42 pp.

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The Internet in a Lusophone LDC: Cape Verde Case Study

Marigarida Evora-Sagna, Vanessa Gray, Michael Minges

Geneva: ITU (2002), 53 pp.

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The Significance of Information and Communication Technologies for Reducing Poverty

Phil Marker, Kerry McNamara, Lindsay Wallace

London: Department for International Development (DFID) (2002), 64 pp.

"This study sets out, for DFID staff, the fundamental principles underlying a proposed approach to information and communication technologies (ICTs) and development, and draws from those principles a set of recommendations for DFID's priorities in this area. For the purposes of this study, ICTs are ... more

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Information and Communication Technologies for Development: Present Situation, Perspectives and Potential Areas for German Technical Cooperation in Peru, Lao P.D.R., Tanzania and Uganda

Eschborn; Bonn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), Division 43;Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung (ZEF) (2002), 101 pp.

"The overall objective of this study was to provide a starting point for the involvement of development assistance in the promotion of ICTs for development. In the form of country studies we first tried to give insights into the ICT sectors along with stakeholders’ and other ICT-related activities ... more

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Understanding Civil Society Portals: Online Content and Community Models for the CSO Sector

Mark Surman

Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2002), 25 pp. + annexes

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Information and Communication Technologies: A World Bank Group Strategy

Washington, DC: World Bank (2002), xv, 82 pp.

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Closing the Gap in Access to Rural Communications: Chile 1995-2002

Bjorn Wellenius

Washington, DC: World Bank (2002), ix, 52 pp.

"In 1994 the government established a Telecommunications Development Fund, financed by the national budget, to catalyze additional private investment in payphone service in rural and urban areas with low income and low telephone density. The Fund has been very successful. Between 1995 and 2000 it su ... pported the provision of payphone service to more than 6,000 rural localities with about 2.2 million inhabitants, thereby reducing the proportion of Chile's population living in places without access to basic voice communication from 15 percent in 1994 to 1 percent in 2002. In addition, some 25,000 individual rural telephone lines are being provided. The subsidies awarded cost the government less than 0.3 percent of total telecommunications sector revenue during the funding period, and Fund administration cost about 3 percent of the monies granted. The Fund's success was due largely to extensive reliance on market forces to determine and allocate subsidies, minimal regulatory intervention, simple and relatively expeditious processing, and effective government leadership. Competition among existing and new operators for the rural market and subsidies led to substantial reductions in cost to the government compared to earlier public sector investments in similar facilities. Commercial success has hinged on operators using the subsidized payphone infrastructures to also provide individual business and residential telephone lines and, subsequently, add value through new services (including voice mail and internet access in some areas) over this network. Interconnection was the single most important regulatory factor of commercial viability, with access charges in some cases surpassing 40 percent of rural operating revenues. The design of the Fund proved robust, and remains the leading example of a costeffective slution to reduce access gaps in basic communication in emerging economies. Some questions remain, however, about whether the services can be sustained in the long term, what to do with the small residual rural population still excluded, and whether anything needs to be done in urban areas. These questions-in addition to limited design improvements suggested by the Fund's experience, as well as work still in progress on quality standards and monitoring-are relevant to the Fund's proposed extension into more advanced modes of communication and access to information, as well as to other countries learning from the Chilean experience." (Executive summary) more

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Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Training of Trainers: Computer and Internet Use for Development. Facilitator Guide and Reference Manual

Washington, DC: Peace Corps (2002), iv, 127 pp.

"This Facilitator Guide and Reference Manual is to be used when training Volunteers and others who will serve as trainers in information and communication technology (ICT) during Volunteers’ Pre-Service Training (PST) or In-Service Training (IST). It outlines the format, materials, objectives, tim ... more

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Telecommunications and Information Services for the Poor

Juan Navas-Sabater, Niina Juntune, Andrew Dymond

Washington, DC: World Bank (2002), xi, 101 pp.

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La tecnología de información y de comunicaciones (TIC) en Nicaragua

Johan Ernberg, Maria Edith Acre

Stockholm: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2002), 73 pp.

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Dicionário de telecomunicações ingles-português: Telecomunicações, internet, informática, electronica

Carlos Umberto Pozzobon

São Paulo: PZZ Multitexto (2002), 267 pp.

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Spuren im Netz: Kinder und Jugendprojekte rund ums Internet

Sonja Moser, Klaus Dreyer (eds.)

München: kopaed (2002), 143 pp.

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Ethik im Internet

Vatican City: Päpstlicher Rat für die Sozialen Kommunikationsmittel (2002), 30 pp.

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The Church and Internet and Ethics in Internet

Pontifical Council for Social Communications

Nairobi: Paulines (2002), 40 pp.

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Internet: Une chance pour l'Afrique

Jacques Bonjawo

Paris: Karthala (2002), 208 pp.

"Nous vivons une période de l'histoire du monde particulièrement mouvementée. Socialement, politiquement, scientifiquement, techniquement, tout évolue rapidement, et la communication instantanée et globale de toute information renforce l'agitation permanente de nos existences. Décidément, le ... more