"These guidelines on digital publishing are targeted primarily at small organizations with limited resources in developing countries, in order to facilitate decision-making on how to publish and disseminate their information. The Guidelines are based on the years of experience of the Network of Aqua
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culture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA) and its partners. The approach is practical in orientation, covering topics including: (a) planning, building and maintaining a sustainable digital publishing system, focusing on a common scenario of setting up a Web site as a digital publishing platform; (b) producing user-friendly digital publications and making them accessible; (c) some recent international developments in digital publishing; and (d) recommended software tools and technical resources for further reading." (Abstract)
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"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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ocal economic development, social justice, and political empowerment. CI approaches ICTs from a “community” perspective and develops strategies and techniques for managing their use by communities both virtual and physical including the variety of Community Networking applications. CI assumes that both communities have characteristics, requirements, and opportunities that require different strategies for ICT intervention and development from individual access and use. Also, CI addresses ICT use in Developing Countries as well as among the poor, the marginalized, the elderly, or those living in remote locations in Developed Countries. CI is of interest both to ICT practitioners and academic researchers and addresses the connections between the policy and pragmatic issues arising from the tens of thousands of Community Networks, Community Technology Centres, Telecentres, Community Communications Centres, and Telecottages globally along with the rapidly emerging field of electronically based virtual “communities." (Abstract)
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"This booklet is written from the perspective of the small-size film producer and/or entrepreneur. His economic success depends on matching ideas with talent, obtaining relevant intellectual property (IP) rights and using them to attract finance from commercial film distributors" (introduction, page
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6). The publication examines the various stages of the film making process – development (i.e. concept/idea, dealing with financiers); pre-production (i.e. underlying rights acquisitions, attaching key talent, dealing with agents; production (i.e. principal photography); post-production (i.e. editing, adding audio-sound, visual effects); distribution; and exhibition." (commbox)
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"This guide provides background and practical information about the design and development of print materials, with a particular focus on the small media of brochures and letters. This guide will help developers understand basic principles involved in planning a print communication project, learning
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about intended audiences, designing and writing materials, and deciding whether and when to update existing materials or create new ones. It contains numerous practical tips and illustrations taken from countries involved in the ICSN and it provides readers with many useful references and resources. This guide will help public health and clinical leaders design relevant and effective print materials that reflect evolving evidence about breast cancer and breast cancer screening and that contribute to the goals of national, regional, and local breast cancer screening programs." (Introduction, page 4)
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"Knowing how many people visit your site, who they are and what they do while they are there (usage) will help you tailor your site to deliver, share or pull in the information or messages your audiences most need, in the way audiences want to receive and contribute to it. Knowing how easily visitor
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s find what they are looking for and their perception of your site (usability) will help you improve its functionality and the user-experience—encouraging more use of your site. And knowing how well your site meets your visitors’ information needs (usefulness) will help you improve both your content and its organization to meet those needs. This guide provides an introduction to measuring these 3Us together with suggestions about how you can use web analytics, surveys and other instruments to improve the 3Us and ultimately the impact of your website. Examples provide a step-by-step guide to putting this knowledge into practice." (Back cover)
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"This publication is intended to serve as a guide to journalists in different media segments on preventive, risk, and crisis communication. Although the focus is on a potential future influenza pandemic in Latin America arising from avian flu, the pages that follow set forth concepts and tools to as
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sist journalists in other crisis situations, including natural disasters, armed conflicts, environmental catastrophes, and phytosanitary disease outbreaks." (Introduction)
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"This book explains in easy-to-comprehend language the basic concepts of applicable architectural and interior design elements as guidelines for space planning; building infrastructure; layout schemes for offices and technical facilities; colors, materials, and finishes; lighting; and scheduling. A
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Face for Radio includes: images and plans of the work of leading designers of radio broadcasting facilities in the U.S. and overseas; budgets and construction schedules for a variety of typical projects; guidelines to follow for flexible programs that apply to radio stations of all sizes, from major market network affiliates to small independents. It is packed with brilliant 4-color illustrations and photographs of completed projects from the authors. Real-world details of radio facility design including floor plans and budgets are included." (Publisher description)
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"The manual is intended to give an introduction to the power of participatory photography as a tool for social change with marginalised and vulnerable groups. Produced in response to the many enquires requesting advice on how to set up a participatory photography project it offers tips and suggestio
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ns for all aspects of project development including planning, implementation and promotion of work produced." (PhotoVoice website)
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"This manual is the result of initial activities developed together with our partner in Peru, the Asociación ETC Andes. It is an attempt to develop a method which will help people to document their experiences, focusing on the detailed description and analysis of a set of activities carried out in
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the field and their results and impact. The method has proved to be adaptable enough to be relevant for many different circumstances – it can be used to document single, short activities, projects, or for longer and more complex programmes. As our work in Latin America and elsewhere has shown, it can be carried out by community based groups or organisations, NGOs, networks or large institutions. We think that this manual can be a very useful guide for all those who understand the importance of drawing lessons from the activities they are implementing in the field. We do hope it will stimulate field level practitioners to deepen their learning and share this with others in an organised way, and thus to build new and relevant knowledge." (Foreword, pages 7-8)
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"The overall purpose of this guide is twofold. To help grantmakers think about and talk about measurement of advocacy and policy, this guide puts forth a framework for naming outcomes associated with advocacy and policy work as well as directions for evaluation design. The framework is intended to p
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rovide a common way to identify and talk about outcomes, providing philanthropic and non-profit audiences an opportunity to react to, refine and adopt the outcome categories presented. In addition, grantmakers can consider some key directions for evaluation design that include a broad range of methodologies, intensities, audiences, timeframes and purposes." (Introduction, page 1)
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"The sourcebook covers the following topics: spaces for civil society participation and how to link local, national and international advocacy; the role of WaterAid to improve water supply and sanitation (WSS) in the context of UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs); building community capacity for
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rooted advocacy; the planning process for effective advocacy such as how to identify issues, what tools to use, clarifying the message etc.; resources to be used for advocacy;advocacy actions such as lobbying, campaigns, media etc.; monitoring and evaluation of advocacy. The sourcebook is interspersed with short case studies from national-level advocacy activities in Africa (Ghana, Madagascar, Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda), Asia (Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan) and the UK, as well as at the international level (Freshwater Action Network). Further information resources are also provided. In the Annex, there is a selection of tools, pro-formas, tables and diagrams which advocacy workers may like to reproduce, adapt or distribute. The sourcebook is meant for WaterAid staff and partner organisations, as well as others in the sector, to assist in drawing up advocacy action plans that aim to improve the water supply and sanitation situation of the poorest people in the countries where they work." (https://www.ircwash.org/resources)
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"This is an excellent resource for all those keen to acquire editorial skills. It is part of a series of distance learning tools currently being developed by the World Bank’s API in collaboration with the African Publishers Network and partner universities. Each self-learning programme will consis
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t of a CD with examples, exercises, videos, modules for face-to-face training, together with an accompanying manual for self study. This pilot on editorial skills was launched in the summer of 2007 and was trialled in five African countries: Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Attractively designed and very user-friendly, the CD consists of a Course Guide: Getting Started; Module 1: Planning and Organizing Textbooks; Module 2: Language Editing; and Module 3: Copy Editing and Design, plus a manual in pdf format Editing Educational Materials: A Manual for Editors in Africa. The manual is designed to provide learners with practical guidance in the work and business of editing, whether they are currently a textbook editor, or are considering working in the field. It provides an overview of the editing processes and a basic understanding of the different roles involved, and offers guidance on the business practices involved in editing and publishing. It is divided into five major sections: (i) Book production in brief: An overview of the publication process; (ii) Organization: Time management, file management, project management; (iii) Development of a publisher's list: Identifying potential publications, working with authors in development; (iv) Communication with authors and others: Letters and contracts; and (v) Manuscript preparation: Quality control in the manuscript preparation process. A series of helpful appendices are included: sample letters – between publishers and prospective authors, publishers and ministry of education officials, correspondence with series editors, etc. – sample contracts, and a model letter of agreement." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 2453)
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"Trauma is at the heart of news — and of the human condition. How it’s reported gives those who weren’t there their first understanding of what a traumatic event means. Personally. For their families and loved-ones. For their community and their nation. Indeed, for the world as a whole. The jo
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urnalism of trauma matters, and journalists have a profound responsibility to tell the story well. Their work can reflect, reinforce, and calm — or exacerbate — the grief and distress that ripples out from death and injury. Covering trauma, whether major international stories or events much closer to home, can also have an impact on those who do the reporting. Like the police, the fire and medical services, like military personnel and rescue workers, journalists are professional first responders to crisis and disaster. But they’re among the last of those groups to recognise the psychological implications of that responsibility. Just as sports reporters and financial journalists don’t open a notebook without a professional knowledge of their field, neither should those who report violence and tragedy. This handbook is the fruit of a Dart Centre consultation with journalists across the world, and it distils the expertise of the best international trauma experts." (Introduction)
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"Este libro recupera parte de lo ya escrito y dicho sobre la evaluación en diferentes textos y espacios de reflexión y de diálogo. Si se nos pregunta sobre su aporte diríamos que, sumada a la convencional y necesaria presentación de argumentos conceptuales y herramientas metodológicas que sust
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enten cómo hacer evaluación –quizá incorporando énfasis y estilos de alguna manera particulares–, su valor está en juntar en una misma propuesta cuatro propósitos de cambio para la evaluación, que si bien se encuentran aún en proceso de consolidación, tienen una presencia emergente en la reflexión actual sobre el tema. Estos propósitos son los siguientes: transitar de una evaluación centrada en la observación de actividades (qué y cuánto se ha hecho), a una que pone énfasis en la observación del cambio (qué ha cambiado con la intervención); transitar de una evaluación entendida como un servicio externo a los proyectos a cargo de especialistas también externos, a una concebida como una experiencia participativa, basada en la confianza y la corresponsabilidad en el manejo de los procesos, la emisión de juicios y la toma de decisiones; transitar de una evaluación operada como mecanismo de control y enfocada en la observación de defectos, a una entendida y organizada como espacio de aprendizaje y de desarrollo de capacidades; Transitar de una idea de la evaluación como práctica instrumental neutra (libre de valores), a entenderla como una práctica intencional, cargada de ideología y utopía, que no se limita a la verificación del cambio sino que apuesta a facilitarlo, haciendo jugar concepciones e intereses particulares." (Introducción)
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"Welcome to this module on children‘s rights for journalists. The objective of the module is to provide you, the trainee journalist, with the concepts and the information that will help you to develop responsible news reporting skills that appreciate and respect children's rights [...] The module
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is organised into two main units. Unit 1, Introducing Children‘s Rights, provides the background to why understanding rights is so important and will look at good practice as well as the problems and challenges that arise in reporting news concerning children. Unit 2, Children‘s Rights and Professional Journalism Practice, deals with professional journalism practice from a children's rights perspective and looks at the policies and the contexts in which we need to think about how to improve our work as journalists. The material presented here should be read alongside the many supporting references and recommendations for further reading. We hope that what you learn in the module will provide a foundation and a reference point for all forms of news reporting but particularly so when children are central to the story." (Pages 5-7)
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