"Cet ouvrage est fondé sur les rapports - basés sur les faits tels qu'ils étaient en 1965 - présentés à la réunion des spécialistes des nombreuses disciplines qui interviennent dans le développement des communications spatiales, réunion qui a eu lieu du 6 au 10 décembre 1965. Les spécial
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istes définissent ici les principes et les grandes lignes d'un programme à long terme visant à développer l'emploi des communications spatiales pour la libre circulation de l'information, l'extension de l'éducation et l'intensification des échanges d'ordre culturel." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1099, topic code 09, 163.20)
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"The full impact of satellite communication will be realized only when it becomes feasible to spacecast directly into homes, facilitating inexpensive long-distance calls and enabling conferences to be held via telephone and closed-circuit television. Business travel will diminish. Space communicatio
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n, by increasing the flow of information and its speed of availability and by bypassing the editorial process, can produce a less informed, rather than a better informed, public opinion, and may create tension due to hasty decisions. There will be technical problems of frequency allocation, compatibility of standards, and control of programs and legal problems of copyright and protection against commercial exploitation. Major artistic and political events will be viewed world-wide, simultaneously, reducing parochialism and xenophobia. Communication satellites will aid education, especially in developing countries and facilitate interlibrary exchange of information. They should also create a mutual flow of information between the developed and the developing nations. Information from the latter should cover normal developments in the news, not just crisis situations. An appendix lists participants. This document is based upon papers submitted to the UNESCO meeting of experts on the use of space communication by the mass media (Paris, December 6-10, 1965)." (https://eric.ed.gov)
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"The following article is an edited abstract of a report on “Space Communication and the Mass Media” published by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization on the occasion of the Extraordinary Administrative Radio Conference on Space Communications convened in October,
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1963, by the International Telecommunications Union. The complete report, No. 41 in the series of Reports and Papers on Mass Communication, is available from the various national distributors of Unesco publications." (Abstract)
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"This report defines and analyzes potential aspects of worldwide communication by satellite, lists technical problems, and suggests uses of space communication to promote education, cultural exchange, and information flow." (https://files.eric.ed.gov)
"Historique de l'évolution des télécommunicateurs en général et de l'utilisation des télécommunications spatiales pour l'information - Applications particulières dans is pays dits en voie de développement - Analyse des problèmes techniques que posent les télécommunications - Circuits exi
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stant actuellement pour les communications spatiales - Conclusion, suggestions et références." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 523, topic code 09)
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"The use of telecommunications as a method of social development — The United Arab Republic (U.A.R.) needs an efficient communication system which would serve various purposes — The obstacles and difficulties existing at present hinder the implementation of such a system: a) Differences in level
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s of education between the various national communities — b) The shortage of qualified personnel — c) Shortage of money in the communities with the greatest need of information — d) Shortage of electric power for certain fairly extensive regions — Rural information Council in the U.A.R.: activities and corodination with other government authorities — The basis of this information service — How to bring radio and television to communities with low income — The use of telecommunications as a method of economic development — The use of telecommunications for security purposes. [Working Paper, 29 Sept. 1962. Contribution to: The United Nations Conference on the Application of Science and Technology for the Benefit of the Less Developed Areas, Geneva, 4 to 20 February 1963. E/Conf. 39/L./11. Agenda Item: L.1]" (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 2517, topic code 9)
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