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Towards an African E-Index: SME E-Access and Usage Across 14 African Countries

Braamfontein: Research ICT Africa (2006), x, 152 pp.

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People, Land and Water: Participatory Development Communication for Natural Resource Management
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Guy Bessette (ed.)

London; Ottawa: Earthscan;International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2006), 313 pp.

"This book presents conceptual and methodological issues related to the use of communication in order to facilitate participation among stakeholders in natural resource management (NRM) initiatives. It also presents a collection of chapters that focus on participatory development communication and N ... RM, particularly in Asia and Africa. There are many approaches and practices in development communication, and most of them have been implemented in the field of environment and natural resource management. But, even when considering participatory approaches in NRM, communication is often limited to information dissemination activities that mainly use printed materials, radio programmes and educational videos to send messages, explain technologies or illustrate activities. These approaches, with their strengths and weaknesses, have been well documented. Participatory development communication takes another perspective. This form of communication facilitates participation in a development initiative identified and selected by a community, with or without the external assistance of other stakeholders. The terminology has been used in the past by a number of scholars to stress the participatory approach of communication in contrast with its more traditional diffusion approach. Others refer to similar approaches as participatory communication for development, participatory communication or communication for social change. In this publication, participatory development communication is considered to be a planned activity that is based on participatory processes and on media and interpersonal communication. This communication facilitates dialogue among different stakeholders around a common development problem or goal. The objective is to develop and implement a set of activities that contribute to a solution to the problem or the realization of a goal, and which support and accompany this initiative. This kind of communication requires moving from a focus on information and persuasion to facilitating exchanges between different stakeholders to address a common problem, to develop a concrete initiative for experimenting with possible solutions, and to identify the partnerships, knowledge and materials needed to support these solutions." (Preface) more

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Native on the Net: Indigenous and Diasporic Peoples in the Virtual Age

Kyra Landzelius (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge (2006), xi, 338 pp.

"From the Taino Indians of the Caribbean, the U’wa of the Amazon rainforest, and the Tunomans and Assyrians of Iraq, to the Tingas and Zapatistas, Native on the Net is a lively and intriguing exploration of how new technologies have enabled these previously isolated peoples to reach new levels of ... more

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Auslandsmärkte als Chance: Die deutsche ITK-Wirtschaft

Berlin: Bundesverband Informationswirtschaft, Telekommunikation und neue Medien (BITKOM);Auswärtiges Amt (2006), 498 pp.

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Comparing Media from Around the World

Robert McKenzie

Ian Werner; Nabil Dajani (contrib.)

Boston: Pearson (2006), 372 pp.

"This book discusses the fundamental elements of media systems and shows how they are used in eight sample countries. Unlike other books, it is organized according to media elements, with comparative discussions of all eight countries within each chapter. This helps readers make connections and comp ... more

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Innovative Practices of Youth Participation in Media: A Research Study on Twelve Initiatives from Around the Developing and Underdeveloped Regions of the World
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Sanjay Asthana

Paris: UNESCO (2006), 76 pp.

"Young people, working with a range of media materials, produce innovative content through dialogue and discussions says this publication. On the basis of case studies in Ghana, Haiti, India, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, Mozambique, Nigeria, Somalia, South Africa, Vietnam, and Zambia, the study examines how ... more

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Transparency and Silence: A Survey of Access to Information Laws and Practices in Fourteen Countries
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Helen Darbishire, Thomas Carson

New York: Open Society Institute (2006), 188 pp.

"This report records and analyzes the results of a study in which partners of the Justice Initiative in 14 countries filed a total of 1,926 requests for information. In each country, seven different requesters twice submitted up to 70 questions to 18 public institutions. Requesters included NGOs, jo ... more

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Community Radio for Development: The World and Africa

Patrick Tor Alumuku

Nairobi: Paulines (2006), 272 pp.

"Community radio is best understood against the background of the other forms of broadcasting, namely public service, and commercial or private broadcasting. Unlike these, community broadcasting is not state-owned, but rather community-owned and managed. Neither is it aimed at profit-making, but at ... more

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Ghana Book Trust Annual Report 2005-2006

Accra: Ghana Book Trust (2006), 51 pp.

"The Ghana Book Trust is an NGO and book donation organization that promotes literacy, library development, and the supply of locally published and imported books to rural schools and libraries in the urban areas. Its works in partnership with CODE and the Sabre Foundation. This is its latest report ... more

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Religion, Media, and the Public Sphere

Birgit Meyer, Annelies Moors (eds.)

Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press (2006), 325 pp.

"Increasingly, Pentecostal, Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, and indigenous movements all over the world make use of a great variety of modern mass media, both print and electronic. Through religious booklets, radio broadcasts, cassette tapes, television talk-shows, soap operas, and documentary film ... more

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With the Support of Multitudes: Using Strategic Communication to Fight Poverty Through PRSPs
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Masud Mozammel, Sina Odugbemi

Washington, DC; London: World Bank, Development Communication Division;Department for International Development (DFID) (2005), 144 pp.

"This publication has been produced in order to improve the chances of success of Poverty Reduction Strategies (PRSs) in two ways: 1. To show policymakers how strategic communication can help them to achieve some of their objectives in formulating and executing effective Poverty Reduction Strategies ... more

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Gender and ICTs for Development: A Global Sourcebook

Minke Valk, Sarah Cummings, Henk Van Dam (eds.)

Amsterdam; Oxford: Royal Tropical Institute (KIT);Oxfam (2005), 143 pp.

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Régulation des communications électroniques à l'heure de la convergence: Enjeux, état des lieux et perspectives en Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre

Diana Senghor (ed.)

Dakar: Panos Afrique de l'Ouest (2005), 102 pp.

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Religious Remediations: Pentecostal Views in Ghanaian Video-Movies

Birgit Meyer

Postscripts, volume 1, issue 2-3 (2005), pp. 155-181

"This article addresses the interface of video-films and Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity in Ghana. This interface, it is argued, needs to be examined from a position that transcends the confines of film studies and religious studies and leaves behind a secularist perspective on the relationship ... more

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Ghana Broadcasting Study: A Report for the Government of Ghana and the World Bank

Washington, DC: World Bank (2005), vi, 102 pp.

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The Press and Political Culture in Ghana

Jennifer Hasty

Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2005), 189 pp.

"Hasty decodes the styles and uncovers the strategies that characterize Ghana's major printed news media, focusing on the differences between news generated by the state and news that comes from private sources. Not only are the angles radically different, but so are ways of gathering the news, assi ... more

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Indigenous Communication in Africa: Concept, Application and Prospects
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Kwasi Ansu-Kyeremeh (ed.)

Accra: Ghana Universities Press (2005), xvi, 282 pp.

"This book argues that indigenous modes of communication - for example the oral tradition, drama, indigenous entertainment forms, cultural modes and local language radio - are essential to the societies within which they exist and which create them; and that coupled with newer, or modern forms of co ... more

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[Religious Film]

Stephen Hughes, Birgit Meyer (eds.)

Postscripts, volume 1, issue 2-3 (2005), pp. 149-374

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Tuning In: An Inventory of Rural FM Radio in Ghana

Nikki Whaites

Guelph: University of Guelph, Master Thesis (2005), 151 pp.

"This study is an exploratory analysis of FM Radio in Sub-Sarahan Africa with Ghana as the single case study. It seeks to describe the current situation of rural radio in the country including levels of rural development programming and community participation. Analysis focuses on the three main sec ... more

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Speaking African on the Radio: Impact Assessment Survey of FM / Community Radios Using African Languages in Ghana, Mali and Senegal

Kwesi Kwaa Prah

Cape Town: Center for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS) (2005), 77 pp.

People, Land and Water: Participatory Development Communication for Natural Resource Management Inspiring Practice

Innovative Practices of Youth Participation in Media: A Research Study on Twelve Initiatives from Around the Developing and Underdeveloped Regions of the World Inspiring Practice

Transparency and Silence: A Survey of Access to Information Laws and Practices in Fourteen Countries Top Insights

With the Support of Multitudes: Using Strategic Communication to Fight Poverty Through PRSPs Inspiring Practice Key Guidance

Indigenous Communication in Africa: Concept, Application and Prospects Inspiring Practice

People, Land and Water: Participatory Development Communication for Natural Resource Management
Inspiring Practice

Innovative Practices of Youth Participation in Media: A Research Study on Twelve Initiatives from Around the Developing and Underdeveloped Regions of the World
Inspiring Practice

Transparency and Silence: A Survey of Access to Information Laws and Practices in Fourteen Countries
Top Insights

With the Support of Multitudes: Using Strategic Communication to Fight Poverty Through PRSPs
Inspiring Practice

Key Guidance

Indigenous Communication in Africa: Concept, Application and Prospects
Inspiring Practice