"This research of Orbicom entitled Monitoring the Digital Divide… and beyond is a contribution to the international community in the context of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), Geneva, December 2003. It sets high standards in international benchmarking and places particular emph
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asis on developing countries. Its unique features are: a cohesive conceptual Framework, which goes beyond connectivity measures and logically incorporates skills, as well as offers rich analytical linkages; explicit measurements both across countries at a given point in time and within countries over-time in such a way that comparisons are not reduced to changing rankings from year to year; policy relevant results on a component-by-component basis; immediate benchmarking against the average of all countries (Hypothetica) and the planet as a whole (Planetia); use of existing and reliable data sets with a sound and transparent statistical methodology. The empirical application of the model covers a great number of countries. Measurements of networks are offered for 192 countries, covering 99% of the population of the planet; of skills and overall Infodensity for 153 countries representing 98% of the population; of Info-use 143 countries and overall Infostate 139 countries, both accounting for 95% of the global population. The results are based on 21 variables, reliable, tested and available to all and extends over the 1996-2001 period." (Publisher description)
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"Este documento acompaña al manual diseñado para ayudar a los administradores de equipos de trabajo del Banco Mundial a planificar y supervisar la ejecución de actividades de comunicación en proyectos de PSN. El manual revisa los principios básicos de comunicación para el cambio en el comporta
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miento, presentando una guía paso a paso para planificar y ejecutar actividades de comunicación y vincular cada paso con el ciclo de proyectos del Banco. El manual contiene una serie de módulos prácticos, incluyendo: enfoques de investigación en comunicación para proyectos del Banco; guía de indicadores en comunicación; ejemplos de términos de referencia para consultores del Banco y de Prestatarios; preguntas guía para evaluar la capacidad de la organización; ejemplo de presupuesto y de plan de ejecución; estudios de caso de las prácticas óptimas en comunicación para el cambio en el comportamiento." (Prefacio, página 5)
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"There are differences between the various countries as regards the freedom of the national press and the levels of information given — While some countries enjoy complete freedom of the press, others have no experience of it — Certain countries are „swamped“ with information, others are lar
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gely „isolated“ from the outside world — The present study sets out to study and examine the question inorder to discover the major factors responsible for these differences." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 797, topic code 070, 04)
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