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New Uses of Mass Communication for the Promotion of Economic and Social Development

United Nations Conference on the Application of Science and Technology for the Benefit of the Less Developed Areas, Working Paper (1962), 18 pp.
"Definitions of the two principal terms: communication and national development — The role of communication in national development: the role of communication in development — Communication resources in the developing countries — Relationship between the development of communications and economic development — The advantage of arriving late on the scene: these countries can benefit from the research and achievements of the industrial nations: advanced technology of mass communication: offset printing, the transistor, the communications satellite, the new teaching methods — Questions of effectiveness — The communication media in the developing countries: campaign against illiteracy — The new methods in school — Mobilisation of rural communities — Conclusion and references [Working Paper, 15 Oct. 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/25. Agenda Item: L]" (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 2088, topic code 04)