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Mobile Media Services at Sub-Saharan African Newspapers: A Guide to Implementing Mobile News and Mobile Business
Key Guides
Paris: World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA); African Media Initiative (AMI) (2011), 81 pp.
"The handbook includes case studies gathered through interviews with newspapers in Uganda, Kenya and South Africa, including the Observer and Daily Monitor in Uganda, the Standard and the Daily Nation in Kenya, and Grocott’s Mail, the Mail and Guardian, the Sunday Times and the Sowetan in South Af
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Information Economy Report 2010: ICTs, Enterprises and Poverty Alleviation
Geneva: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) (2010), xvii, 154 pp.
"The Information Economy Report 2010 focuses on the nexus of ICTs, enterprises and poverty alleviation. Whereas the knowledge base needs to grow considerably, the evidence presented in this Report suggests that more attention should be given by policymakers and other stakeholders to this new set of
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Asia's Media Innovators Vol. 2
Singapore: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2010), 137 pp.
"Asia’s Media Innovator’s Vol 2 is the offspring of the earlier book that appeared in 2008. This new volume consists of studies of innovations at media companies in the region. The success of these media companies shows the dynamism in the region, and reflects its potential for growth. Each chap
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SMS Uprising: Mobile Phone Activism in Africa
Deep Insights
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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Socio-Economic Impact of Mobile Phones on Indian Agriculture
New Delhi: Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) (2010), 46 pp.
"The study found evidence that mobiles are being used in ways which contribute to productivity enhancement. However, to leverage the full potential of information dissemination enabled by mobile telephony will require significant improvements in supporting infrastructure and capacity building amongs
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Where Are You Africa? Church and Society in the Mobile Phone Age
Mankon, Bamenda (CM): Langaa (2010), xxii, 240 pp.
"On the basis of a thorough review of the growing literature on the mobile phone and the cultures it inspires, Goliama highlights the ambivalent nature of mobile cultures for the Roman Catholic Church's evangelization mission in Africa. He argues not only for the continued merits of face-to-face com
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The Innovative Use of Mobile Applications in East Africa
Deep Insights
Stockholm: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2010), 100 pp.
"This report gives an overview of the current state of mobile phone use and services in East Africa. It outlines major trends and main obstacles for increased use as well as key opportunities and potential for upscaling mobile applications. The report draws on secondary data and statistics, as well
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Harnessing Africa’s Digital Future
Johannesburg; Grahamstown: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS); Sol Plaatje Institute for Media Leadership (2010), 136 pp.
Change at Hand: Web 2.0 for Development
London; Wageningen: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED); Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) (2009), 136 pp.
"Web 2.0 for development (Web2forDev) is a way of employing web services to intentionally improve information-sharing and collaborative production of content for development. It is about how development actors can relate and connect to other stakeholders, produce and publish their own material, deci
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Telefonía móvil y desarrollo financiero en América Latina
Madrid; Barcelona: Fundación Telefónica; Ariel (2009), xv, 148 pp.
Mobile Communication
Cambridge, UK; Malden, Mass.: Polity Press (2009), xii, 191 pp.
Mobile Phones: The New Talking Drums of Everyday Africa
Bamenda (CM); Leiden: Langaa; African Studies Centre (2009), vii, 173 pp.
"This book is about the many ways in which mobile phones are being appropriated by Africans and how they are transforming and are being transformed by society in Africa. A case study from Karthoum (Sudan) shows, how mobile phones are reshaping relationships in a Muslim society, where they enable wom
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African Women and ICTs: Investigating Technology, Gender and Empowerment
Deep Insights
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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Measuring the Information Society: The ICT Development Index
Geneva: ITU (2009), viii, 96 pp.
"In the developing world, mobile phones have revolutionised telecommunication and have reached an estimated average 49.5 per cent penetration rate at the end of 2008 – from close to zero only ten years ago. This is not only faster than any other technology in the past, but the mobile phone is also
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Doing Digital Media in Africa: Prospects, Promises and Problems
Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2009), 117 pp.
Understanding Media Users: From Theory to Practice
Malden: Wiley Blackwell (2009), vi, 219 pp.
"Understanding Media Users discusses approaches to audiences which maintain that viewers actively interpret content, a perspective to be distinguished not only from structuralist media theory but from passive audience “effects studies.” Effects studies consist of research conceptually articulate
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The International Handbook of Children, Media and Culture
London et al.: Sage (2008), xxi, 537 pp.
M-Libraries: Libraries on the Move to Provide Virtual Access
London: Facet Publishing (2008), lvii, 287 pp.
