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Gender Assessment of ICT Access and Usage in Africa
Cape Town: Research ICT Africa; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2010), 39 pp.
"What is clear from the Research ICT Africa (RIA) Household and Individual Access and Usage Survey is that the diffusion of ICT is highly uneven concentrating in urban areas and leaving some rural areas almost untouched. Access to these technologies is constrained by income as is usage, and as they
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Handbook of Research on Overcoming Digital Divides: Constructing an Equitable and Competitive Information Society
Hershey, PA: IGI Global (2010), xxxvi, 737 pp.
"The Handbook presents a comprehensive, integrative, and global view of what has been called the digital divide. Collecting an international collaboration of experts, this Handbook of Research offers policy makers, academicians, managers, and researchers a complete reference source to the interactio
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World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report 2010: Monitoring the WSIS Targets - a Midterm Review
Geneva: ITU (2010), xxxvi, 217 pp.
"The year 2010 marks the midpoint between the Tunis phase of WSIS (2005) and the deadline for achieving the WSIS targets (2015), in line with the target date of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report presents a mid-term review of the progress mad
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Die digitale Kluft: Bosnien-Herzegowina auf dem Weg in die Informationsgesellschaft
Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (2010), 225 pp.
"Am Beispiel von Bosnien-Herzegowina (BiH) zeigt Violeta Trkulja die Probleme auf, die bei der Einführung einer Informationsgesellschaft in einem Schwellen- und Nachkriegsland bestehen. Neben technischen Aspekten ist vor allem die Wissenskluft zwischen Bevölkerungsschichten für diese neue Form so
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Information Society Statistical Profiles 2009: Africa
Geneva: ITU (2009), v, 66 pp.
"This report highlights the latest ICT developments in the region and includes key statistical information for every country. It features a regional analysis of the ITU ICT Development Index (IDI) and the ICT Price Basket, two ICT benchmarking tools that were launched in March 2009. The report point
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Internet Access for Development
Paris: OECD (2009), 108 pp.
Options to Increase Access to Telecommunications Services in Rural and Low-Income Areas
Washington, DC: World Bank (2009), viii, 44 pp.
"Increasing overall service coverage and promoting access to telecommunications services is economically beneficial. However, universal access policies for rural and low-income areas have not sufficiently evolved with the latest technolo gy and market trends. This study reviews and evaluates the wid
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Literature Review on the Impact of Public Access to Information and Communication Technologies
Seattle: University of Washington, Center for Information & Society (CIS) (2009), 25 pp.
"This report presents a review of empirical research on the impacts of public access to ICTs in order to document what is known about this approach to ICT service delivery. The results show that there is limited conclusive evidence on downstream impacts of public access to ICTs. The evidence that do
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Global Information Society Watch 2009: Focus on Access to Online Information and Knowledge – Advancing Human Rights and Democracy
Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Hivos (2009), 231 pp.
"GISWatch has three interrelated goals: surveying the state of the field of information and communications technology (ICT) policy at local and global levels; encouraging critical debate; strengthening networking and advocacy for a just, inclusive information society. Each year the report focuses on
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Accès aux nouvelles technologies en Afrique et en Asie: TIC et service universel
Paris: L'Harmattan (2009), 252 pp.
Manual for Measuring ICT Access and Use by Households and Individuals
Geneva: ITU (2009), 114 pp.
The Global Information Society: A Statistical View
Santiago de Chile: United Nations; Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development (2008), 157 pp.
Handbook of Mobile Communication Studies
Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press (2008), ix, 472 pp.
"This book offers a view of the cultural, family, and interpersonal consequences of mobile communication across the globe. Scholars analyze the effect of mobile communication on all parts of life, from the relationship between literacy and the textual features of mobile phones to the use of ringtone
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Measuring Information and Communication Technology Availability in Villages and Rural Areas
Geneva: ITU (2008), iii, 21 pp.
Digital Poverty: Concept and Measurement, with an Application to Peru
Kellogg Institute (2007), 26 pp.
"This paper discusses the notions of demand, poverty, information needs, and information and communication technologies (ICTs) to offer a concept of digital poverty, which may be useful to estimate the digital poverty level in Latin America and the Caribbean. The paper is composed of two sections. T
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A Digital Inclusion Advocacy Toolkit: Bridging the Digital Divide by Winning Community Benefits in Municipal Broadband Projects
Oakland, Cal.: Media Alliance (2007), 20 pp.
"This toolkit is a resource for community members who want to advance digital inclusion in their city, town, or county that is exploring a broadband/ high-speed Internet initiative. Municipalities are considering many different technologies to increase broadband access - from wireless to fiber - and
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Diagnóstico de las políticas de TIC en el Ecuador
Quito: FLACSO (2006), 174 pp.
