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Access to Internet & Digital Communications
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Digital Divide, Digital Inequalities
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Gender Advocacy & Empowerment, Gender Mainstreaming
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ICTs and Development
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Female ICT Sector Personnel / Professionals
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ICT Policies
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Artificial Intelligence
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Internet & Social Media Use: Women
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Cybersecurity, Digital Safety, Privacy, Right to Privacy
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Digital Inclusion
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Educational Use of ICTs / Internet
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Mobile Phone Use: Women
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Gender and Media, Gender and Communication
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ICT / Internet Projects (Development Aid)
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Digital & Social Media Use: Youth
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ICTs and Poverty Reduction
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ICT Development Assistance
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Information Society
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Gender Discrimination, Gender Inequalities
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Gender Media Studies & Feminist Communication Research
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Advocacy & Empowerment: Girls
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Civic Engagement, Citizen Participation, Civil Society & Digital Communication
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Agriculture & ICTs, e-Agriculture
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Digital & Social Media Use, Internet Use
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Girls and Media
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Digital Media Censorship, Control & Filtering, Internet & Social Media Censorship
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Community Radio & Gender
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Digital Ethics, AI Ethics, Social Media Ethics, Data & Information Ethics
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E-Governance, E-Democracy
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Internet
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Democratization & Digital Media / Social Media
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Economic Development: Role of ICTs & Media
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World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
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Poverty & Poverty Reduction
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Female Journalists & Media Workers
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Feminism & Communication
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Gender-Based Online Harassment & Sexual Threats
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Gender Representation & Stereotypes in the Media
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Media Assistance: Gender Focus
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Rural Women & Communication
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Communication Networks
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Internet Governance, Internet Policies
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Mobile Phones, Smartphones
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Telecommunication Infrastructure
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Open Data
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Digital Activism, Cyber Advocacy
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Empowerment
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Agricultural Information & Extension
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Media Use: Lower Classes & Poor Population
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Media Use: Migrants & Diasporas
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Media Use: Women, Female Media Audiences
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Mobile Phone Use
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Independent & Oppositional Media in Authoritarian Regimes
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Election Campaigns
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Communication Rights
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Freedom of Expression
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Intellectual Property
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Surveillance, Surveillance Technologies, Spyware
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Community Communication
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Citizen Journalism, Community Journalism
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Community Radios
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Telecentres, Community Telecentres, Internet Cafés
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Extremist & Terrorist Digital / Social Media Presence
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Information Warfare, Psychological Warfare
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Internet / ICTs and Conflicts
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Anthropology of Media & Communication
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Development Assistance
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Donor Coordination, Funder Collaboration, Aid Harmonsation
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Developing Countries
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Development Education
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Millenium Development Goals (MDG)
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Good Governance
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Rural Communication for Development
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Data Governance, Data Justice, Data Sovereignty
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Digital Healthcare & Information, Mobile Health, E-Health, Telemedicine
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Digital Platforms & Intermediaries
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Digital & Information Literacy
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Chatbots
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Electronic Commerce
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Political Blogging
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Open Access Publishing
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Blogging, Blogs
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Twitter & Microblogs
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Digital Economies, Digital Societies
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AI & Social Justice
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Digitalization, Environment & Sustainable Development
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Online Learning, E-Learning
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ICT Economics
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Software Industries
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ICT Regulation
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ICT Research
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Prisoners & Communication / Media
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Racism in Social Media & Digital Communication
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Economic Policies
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Small Enterprises, Micro Businesses, Small & Medium Enterprises (SME)
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Public Goods, Commons
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Basic Education
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Education (General)
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Open Educational Resources (OER)
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Literacy, Literacy Campaigns, Postliteracy, Alphabetisation Policies
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Vocational Training
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Sustainable Development
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Values
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Female Researchers
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Gender in Health Communication
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Gender Relations
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Women's Media
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HIV / AIDS (General)
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Colonial Legacies
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Globalisation of Media
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Crowdsourcing
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Digital Literacy: Youth
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Human Rights Protection
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Low-Cost Solutions, Low Budget Calculation
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Organisational Development & Capacity Building
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Starting Media Outlets, Creation of Digital Businesses
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Strategic Alliances, Strategic Partnerships
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Civic Engagement, Citizen & Community Participation
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Governance & Accountability: Role of Media / Communication
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National Identity & Media, Nationalism & Communication
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Radio Ada (Ghana)
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Communication Research Design
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Human Development Index (HDI)
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Mobile Phones in Rural Areas
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COVID-19 Pandemic: Economic, Political and Social Effects
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Internet Bandwith, Broadband & Backbone Networks
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WLAN Wireless Internet Access
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SMS
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Youth & Digital Media
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"Increasing number of reports, initiatives and efforts are focused on addressing women’s ability to enjoy universal, acceptable, affordable, unconditional, open, meaningful and/or equal access to information, the internet and ICTs. These include, but are not limited to, the recent work of civil so
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A Toolkit for Researching Women’s Internet Access and Use
London: GSMA; Association for Progressive Communications (APC); World Wide Web Foundation; Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) (2018), 44 pp.
"This toolkit is aimed at a wide range of audiences interested in conducting both qualitative and quantitative research on women’s internet access and use. The primary target audience are researchers and research agencies who have skills and practice in conducting quantitative and/or qualitative r
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Ciudadanía digital & democracia participativa
Salamanca: Comunicación Social; CLACSO (2018), 252 pp.
"Ciudadanía digital y democracia participativa trata de describir experiencias concretas y procesos de apropiación y rebelión frente al actual statu quo tecnocrático a través de dos ejes conceptuales claramente definidos:--Propuestas teóricas y analíticas para el estudio de la Ciudadanía Dig
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Baseline Report on Women's Rights Online Issues in Ghana
Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) (2017), 31 pp.
"The study found that among women, access to and use of the internet is highly dependent on the type of mobile device used and on level of education. Connecting with friends and family, entertainment and education emerged as the main reasons why the female respondents used the internet. Unreliable y
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Digital Development and the Digital Gender Gap
Brighton: Institute of Development Studies (IDS) (2017), 11 pp.
"This rapid literature review collates findings from recently published papers on digital development and gender, highlighting some of the most commonly discussed discussions related to economic, social and political development. As the scope of this query is very large, this review provides an illu
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Digital Passages: Migrant Youth 2.0. Diaspora, Gender and Youth Cultural Intersections
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2015), 319 pp.
"This book considers how Moroccan-Dutch youth, mostly born in the Netherlands, navigate digital spaces to articulate their politicized identities in a time when claims over the failure of multiculturalism, anti-immigration sentiments and Islamophobia sweep across Europe. Digital Passages: Migrant Yo
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Digital Divides: The New Challenges and Opportunities of E-Inclusion
Boca Raton et al.: CRC Press (2015), xxviii, 300 pp.
"The rapid development of the information society has accentuated the importance of digital divides, which refer to economic and social inequalities among populations due to differences in access to, use of, or knowledge of information and communication technologies (ICT). This book discusses the cu
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Armed with Pen and Microphone: Media as Tools for Social Development
Wien: FrauensolidaritätWomen's Solidarity (2014), 78 pp.
"This study shows how women and women’s organisations in Central America and southern Africa use media for social development. One of the milestones of the women’s movement was the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. Section J of the Platform for Action, which was a result of th
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Women and ICT in Africa and the Middle East: Changing Selves, Changing Societies
London: Zed Books (2014), 338 pp.
Global Information Society Watch 2013: Women's Rights, Gender and ICTs
Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Hivos (2013), 240 pp.
"GISWatch 2013 shows that gains in women’s rights made online are not always certain or stable. While access to the internet for women has increased their participation in the social, economic and governance spheres, there is another side to these opportunities: online harassment, cyberstalking, a
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Gender and Media = Genre et Médias
Africa Media Review, volume 21, issue 1-2 (2013), pp. 1-192
"The articles contained in this special issue build on the conversations initiated at the Cairo Symposium and try to make sense of the shifts and transformations in media and gender relations in Africa. Some bring new perspectives to bear on how traditional media (newspapers, magazines, radio and te
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Empowering Women Through ICT
Kista; Stockholm: Spider – The Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions; Stockholm University (2012), 72 pp.
"This publication covers five different projects carried out in six different locations. There were two projects in Bolivia, one focusing on empowering female indigenous leaders and the other provided female victims of domestic violence with a safe virtual environment where they could receive suppor
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Blogistan: Politik und Internet im Iran
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb); (2012), 285 pp.
"Die Protestwelle nach der umstrittenen Präsidentschaftswahl im Iran vom Juni 2009 lenkte die Aufmerksamkeit der Weltöffentlichkeit auf die lebendige Internetkultur der Islamischen Republik. Das Internet, heißt es, befördert den gesellschaftlichen Wandel in Ländern wie dem Iran, doch inwiefern
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GenARDIS 2002 - 2010: Small Grants That Made Big Changes for Women in Agriculture
Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2010), 45 pp.
"The Gender, Agriculture and Rural Development in the Information Society (GenARDIS) small grants fund was initiated in 2002 to support work on gender-related issues in information and communications technologies for the African, Caribbean and Pacific regions. GenARDIS recognises the constraints and
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Gender Matters: Female Perspectives in ICT4D Research
[authors] (2010), 11 pp.
"We present our experience of gender as female ICT4D researchers. We highlight our field experiences and comment on our perceptions of how being a woman and performing our female identity has influenced our own ICT4D research. We discuss how gender tensions are further compounded by the researcher
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SMS Uprising: Mobile Phone Activism in Africa
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Cape Town: Pambazuka Press (2010), xxii, 149 pp.
"This collection of essays by those engaged in using mobile phone technologies for social change provides an analysis of the socio-economic, political and media contexts faced by activists in Africa today. The essays address a broad range of issues including inequalities in access to technology base
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African Women and ICTs: Investigating Technology, Gender and Empowerment
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London; Ottawa: Zed Books; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2009), ix, 222 pp.
"Women in Africa are undeniably participating in the information and communication technology (ICT) revolution and they are doing so in many and varied ways; the changes that the use of these tools have brought about are visible everywhere. Furthermore, the prospects of ICTs for development and wome
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Aneignungen des Globalen: Internet-Alltag in der arabischen Welt. Eine Fallstudie in Marokko
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2008), 259 pp.
"Ängste und Hoffnungen verbinden sich mit den jungen Menschen, die in der arabischen Welt zwei Drittel der Bevölkerung ausmachen. Wie reagieren die Jugendlichen auf die Herausforderungen einer globalisierten Welt? Anhand der Internetnutzung marokkanischer Jugendlicher und den damit verbundenen Ane
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BCO Impact Assessment Study: The Final Report
London: BCO Building Communication Opportunities (2008), 192 pp.
"This report investigates the impact media and ICTs can have on the lives of the poor, based on the experiences of nine donors and NGOs forming part of the "Building Communication Opportunities (BCO)" alliance. It suggests that radio will have the most influence on social and political change where
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