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Telecentres, Community Telecentres, Internet Cafés
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Community Telecommunication Networks
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Community Informatics
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Access to Internet & Digital Communications
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Open Source Software
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Indigenous Digital & Social Media Communication
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Community Radios
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Community Media Management
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ICT / Internet Projects (Development Aid)
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Digital Inclusion
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WLAN Wireless Internet Access
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Starting Media Outlets, Creation of Digital Businesses
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Sustainability
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Networks & Networking
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Suburbs, Poor Districts, Slums, Shanty Towns
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Access to Media & Information: Indigenous Populations
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Advertising Planning & Implementation
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Open Licensing, Creative Commons, Public Domain
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Community Communication
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Community Radio Equipment & Infrastructure, Community Radio Digitalization
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Rural Communication for Development
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Digital & Information Literacy
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ICT Policies
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Digital Divide, Digital Inequalities
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Advocacy & Empowerment: Indigenous People
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Digital & Social Media Use, Internet Use
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Community Development
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Mobile Phones in Rural Areas
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Civic Engagement, Citizen Participation, Civil Society & Digital Communication
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Social Media Analytics, Web Metrics, User Data Analytics
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Media Use: Lower Classes & Poor Population
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Cybersecurity, Digital Safety, Privacy, Right to Privacy
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Alternative Communication & Media
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Citizen Journalism, Community Journalism
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Community Development: Role of Communication & Media
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Community Media Financing & Sustainability
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Digitalization in NGOs, Civil Society & Development Organizations
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Financing Nonprofit Organizations
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Nonprofit Management, NGO Management, Management General
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Development Planning
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Communicating Development Projects, Media in Development Programmes
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Data Governance, Data Justice, Data Sovereignty
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Digital Skills, Digital Production Skills
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E-Governance, E-Democracy
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Internet
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Wikipedia
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AI in Nonprofit Organizations
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Gender and ICTs / Internet
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ICTs and Poverty Reduction
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ICT4D: Evaluation, Monitoring, Impact Assessment
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ICT Effects & Impact
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Libraries
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Alternative Economy, Solidarity Economy, Social Economy Businesses, Fair Trade
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Solar Energy, Renewable Energy
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Small Enterprises, Micro Businesses, Small & Medium Enterprises (SME)
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Livelihoods
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Instructional Media & Teaching Materials
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Open Educational Resources (OER)
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Open, Distance and Digital Education (ODDE)
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Fact-Checking & Verification of Sources
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Media Assistance: Evaluation, Monitoring, Impact Assessment
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Self-Assessment, Self-Evaluation
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Feminism & Communication
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Women (General)
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Sexual Health Communication, Reproductive Health Education, Family Planning
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Indigenous Communication
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UNESCO & IPDC Media Assistance
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Journalistic Skills
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Communication Networks
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Diffusion of Innovations
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Human Resources Development, Personnel Management
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Low-Cost Solutions, Low Budget Calculation
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Organisational Structure
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Migrants
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People with Disabilities & Communication / Media
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Accountability & Transparency
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Government
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Project Design, Project Planning
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Project Financing
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Radio Engineering & Technologies
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Media Effects
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Behaviour
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Uses-And-Gratifications Approach
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Contextual Analysis
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Ethnographic Action Research
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Rural Communication, Media in Rural Areas
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Internet & ICTs in Rural Areas
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COVID-19 Pandemic: Economic, Political and Social Effects
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Communities of Practice
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Radio Waves
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Radio Production Equipment & Technologies
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Mobile & Wireless Communications Technologies
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Mobile Phone Use for Social Purposes, Mobiles for Development
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Telecommunication Infrastructure
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Telecommunication Networks
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Telephone
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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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Wireless Networking in the Developing World
[authors], 3rd ed. (2013), 495 pp.
Favela Digital: O Outro Lado da Tecnologia
Vitoria: GSA Grafica e Editora (2013), 128 pp.
"The idea for this book came up during the fieldwork I did in Vitória, Brazil for my doctoral dissertation. My research aims to understand the experience of marginalized people in community technology centers and how this experience informs the ways we think about what constitutes “empowerment”
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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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Asamblea de Migrantes Indígenas, 10 años de experiencia comunitaria y software libre
México, DF: Asamblea de Migrantes Indígenas de la Ciudad de México;Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung (2011), 151 pp.
"Las comunidades de migrantes indígenas han podido desarrollar, con su propia iniciativa y recursos, distintos proyectos de educación y formación intercultural, que van desde la formación de bandas filarmónicas y grupos de danza, hasta la operación de centros de producción radiofónica, en lo
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Impact: A Practical Guide to Evaluating Community Information Projects
Miami: Knight Foundation (2011), 37 pp.
"This guide will take you through the essential steps for designing an evaluation of your community information project. These steps explain what to do and consider at different stages of the evaluation process: 1. Describe your project and identify your target audience. 2. Identify the evaluation
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Community Multimedia Centres in Mozambique: A Map
Lugano: New Mine Lab;New Media in Education Lab (2011), 13 pp.
"The Community Multimedia Centres (CMCs) visited vary consistently in resources and services they offer. The table below summarizes the services currently available at each of the presented venues: Community radio and photocopies are always present; ICTs courses are also very present, except, at the
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Uso de Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación (TIC) para el desarrollo local: Apropiación comunitaria de telecentros. Manual del taller participativo
México D.F.: Redes por la Diversidad, Equidad y Sustentabilidad (2010), 58 pp.
Mobile Broadcasting for Community Radio Stations
Onto It Media;Community Broadcasting Foundation (2009), 40 pp.
"Radio stations have performed ‘Outside (away from the studio) Broadcasts' for decades using various telecommunications and antenna technology. Many of these resources are expensive, require a high level of technical expertise, and access to special telecommunications services. New mobile broadcas
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Mobile phones and community development: A contact zone between media and citizenship
Development in Practice, volume 19, issue 4-5 (2009), pp. 585-597
"Mobile phones have already been used widely around the world for activism, social and economic development, and new cultural and communicative forms. Despite this widespread use of mobile phones, they remain a relatively un-theorised and un-discussed phenomenon in community and citizen’s media. T
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telecentre.org External Program Review. Final Report
Telecentre.org;International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2009), 62 pp.
Telecentres in Mozambique: Staying On-Line
Wageningen: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) (2008), 36 pp.
Making the Connection: Scaling Telecenters for Development
Washington, DC: Academy for Educational Development (AED);Microsoft Corporation;International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2007), 237 pp.
Forging Innovations: Community Multimedia Centres in Nepal
New Delhi: UNESCO (2007), 54 pp.
Wireless Networking in the Developing World: A Practical Guide to Planning and Building Low-Cost Telecommunications Infrastructure
Key Guidance
Limehouse Book Sprint Team, 2nd ed. (2007), 415 pp.
Community Informatics in Latin America and the Caribbean
Journal of Community Informatics, volume 3, issue 3 (2007), various pag.
"Este número refleja la diversidad de iniciativas que están llevando a cabo tanto en el terreno, con implementaciones de informática comunitaria que van de telecentros a apoyo a migrantes, a sistemas de soporte al desarrollo rural. Con casos y ejemplos de unos diez países de la region, también
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What is Community Informatics? (And Why Does it Matter)
Milan: Polimetrica (2007), 105 pp.
"Community Informatics (CI) is the application of information and communications technologies (ICTs) to enable community processes and the achievement of community objectives. CI goes beyond the “Digital Divide” to making ICT access usable and useful to excluded populations and communities for l
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A Framework for Designing Telecentres
Hong Kong: Roger Harris Associates (2007), 45 pp.
"This Framework is organised in the sequence of a logical approach to the design of information systems that are intended to deliver socio-economic benefits via Telecentres for the purpose of community level development and poverty reduction. Telecentres are promoted as an answer to the problems of
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Social software for social change
Office of Third Sector (2007), 19 pp.
Participative Web and User-Created Content: Web 2.0, Wikis and Social Networking
Paris: OECD (2007), 124 pp.
"Drawing on an expanding array of intelligent web services and applications, a growing number of people are creating, distributing and exploiting user-created content (UCC) and being part of the wider participative web. This study describes the rapid growth of UCC and its increasing role in worldwid
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