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ICT and Rural Development in the Global South
Deep Insights
London; New York: Routledge (2024), xiii, 211 pp.
"Drawing on years of experience across 45 countries, as well as extensive original academic research, Willem van Eekelen situates the evolving role of ICT in wider development patterns in the Global South. He discusses the effects of ICT on agriculture, trade, financial flows, resource management an
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Routledge Handbook of Humanitarian Communication
Deep Insights
Milton: Routledge (2022), 486 pp.
"Recent years have seen the expansion of critical scholarship on humanitarian communication across a range of academic fields, sharing recognition of the centrality of media and communications to our understanding of humanitarianism as an agent of transnational power, global governance and cosmopoli
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Social Media Usage by Digital Finance Consumers: Analysis of Consumer Complaints in Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda. July 2019 - July 2020
Innovations for Poverty Action (ipa) (2021), 36 pp.
"Digital feedback has large potential for consumer protection. The customer experiences shared in the different social media channels have proven to be a rich source of information with the potential of answering a large number of questions. Who will make use of this data and methods going forward,
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How African Economies Work: A Guide to Business and Economics Reporting
Key Guides
Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2019), 220 pp.
Dealing with Complexity in Development Evaluation: A Practical Approach
Los Angeles: Sage (2016), xliv, 429 pp.
"Recognizing that complexity calls for innovative, conceptual, and methodological solutions, Dealing with Complexity in Development Evaluation offers practical guidance to policymakers, managers, and evaluation practitioners on how to design and implement complexity-responsive evaluations that can b
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New Media and International Development: Representation and Affect in Microfinance
London: Routledge (2015), xv, 189 pp.
"Through a case study of Kiva.org, the world's first person-to-person microlending website, and other microfinance organizations, the book argues that international development efforts have an affective dimension. This is fostered through narrative and visual representations, through the performance
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Comunicação, desenvolvimento e sustentabilidade
Covilhã: Livros LabCom (2014), 196 pp.
Community Radios in West-Java, Indonesien: Distributoren von Informationen und Agenten für Mikro-Versicherungen?
Südostasien, volume 29, issue 3 (2013), pp. 39-41
"In der noch jungen indonesischen Demokratie gibt es mittlerweile um die 600 Community Radios, wovon sich 400 auf Java befinden. Sie senden in einem begrenzten Radius und im Interesse ihrer Community. Je nach Region und Bedarf gibt es verschiedene thematische Ausrichtungen. In katastrophengeplagten
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„Leben und Finanzen": Oikocredit fördert Grundbildung über Rundfunk in Kambodscha
Rundbrief Oikocredit Westdeutscher Förderkreis, issue 2 (2013), pp. 8-9
"Seit 2012 fördert Oikocredit in Kambodscha eine landesweite Radiosendung, die der ländlichen Bevölkerung Grundkenntnisse in Finanzfragen vermitteln und zugleich nachhaltige Unternehmenspraktiken fördern soll. Finanzielle Grundbildung ist für Oikocredit das entscheidende Instrument, um die Hera
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Papier de discussion : Complémentarités entre services financiers de proximité et offreurs d’information locale. Des pistes de solutions pour un financement des médias communautaires par l’intermédiaire des institutions de microfinance
Paris: Groupe de recherche et d’échanges technologiques (GRET) (2011), 19 pp.
"L’objectif de cet article est d’essayer de définir les contours d’expérimentations de financement des médias de proximité par les circuits de finance locale notamment dans les milieux ruraux et enclavés. Les médias de proximité et les établissements de microfinance ont considérés ic
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Banking on Mobiles: Why, How, for Whom?
Washington, DC: Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) (2008), 27 pp.
"This paper examines how banks can translate the potential of mobile phones into greater financial access for poor people. Although mobile phone operators have been able to use the mobile phone for mobile remittance and bill payment services in several countries, banks have had little success in usi
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Information and Communication Technologies and Large-Scale Poverty Reduction: Lessons from Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean
London: Panos (2005), 48 pp.
"During the last decade, development partners around the globe have gained rich experience and knowledge about the application of ICT for poverty reduction and its value for reaching the Millennium Development Goals and the goals of Poverty Reduction Strategies. But scaling up the results of success
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