"Making Open Development Inclusive: Lessons from IDRC Research focuses on the connection between openness and inclusion in global development. It brings together the latest research that cuts across a wide variety of political, economic, and social arenas - from governance to education to entreprene
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urship and more. The chapters draw on empirical evidence from a wide and diverse range of applications of openness, uncovering the many critical and underlying elements that shape and structure how particular openness initiatives and/or activities play out - and critically - who gets to participate, and who benefits [or not] from openness, while exploring the frontiers where openness intersects with deeper challenges of development, technology, and innovation." (Publisher description)
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"A major report – probably the most comprehensive survey of publishing training facilities undertaken to date – prepared for the African Publishers Network (APNET) and sub-titled “An investigation of existing publishing training, a survey of African publishers' training need and a proposed fiv
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e-year plan for an African Publishing Institute (API)”. The report surveys existing training provision, training needs, proposed API activities, structure and plans for the Institute, course development, and funding." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 2426)
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