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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 ... more
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Trends in Audiovisual Markets: Regional Perspectives from the South

Guiomar Alonso Cano (ed.)
[Paris]: UNESCO (2006), 364 pp.
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African Journals Online (AJOL): A Second Internal Evaluation, 2003-2005

Sioux Cumming
Oxford: International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) (2006), 40 pp.
"A second evaluation of the African Journals Online (AJOL) project http://www.ajol.info/, which examines the development and status of the project since the last evaluation in 2002 to the end of 2005, and when it was handed over to African management, NISC South Africa Ltd. It aims to provide partic ... more
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Breaking Barriers: The Potential of Free and Open Source Software for Sustainable Human Development. A Compilation of Case Studies from Across the World

Nah Soo Hoe
Bangkok; New Delhi: UNDP Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme (UNDP-APDIP); International Development Research Centre (IDRC); UNESCO; Elsevier (2006), 115 pp.
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Using Radio for Advocacy and Communication of Issues Affecting Farm Communities in Zimbabwe

Clever Maputseni
Malmö: Malmö University, Master Thesis in Communication for Development (2006), vii, 65 pp.
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Highlights: Giving Youth a Voice
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Wageningen: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) (2006), 98 pp.
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Intellectual Property, Education and Access to Knowledge in Southern Africa

Andrew Rens, Achal Prabhala, Dick Kawooya
Stellenbosch: Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa; International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD); United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) (2006), 69 pp.
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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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Contribution des radios communautaires au developpement local: Cas de la radio rurale locale de Lalo (RRL/Lalo) au Bénin

Marie Madeleine Davakan
Dakar: Université Cheihk Anta Diop, Centre d'Etudes des Sciences et Techniques de l'Information (CESTI) (2006), 19 pp., 84 pp.
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African Media Development Initiative: Democratic Republic of Congo. Research Findings and Conclusions

Dominique Mweze
London: BBC World Service Trust (2006), 84 pp.
"On the whole, interviewees report both a positive quantitative and qualitative change in terms of the number and content of media messages. Liberalisation and more stable political climate has facilitated the opening up of the telecommunications sector, and has led to a diversification of the media ... more
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Freedom of the Press 2006: A Global Survey of Media Independence

Karin Deutsch Karlekar (ed.)
New York; Lanham: Freedom House; Rowman & Littlefield (2006), 272 pp.
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African Filmmaking: North and South of the Sahara
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Roy Armes
Edinburgh; Bloomington: Edinburgh University Press; Indiana University Press (2006), xv, 224 pp.
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Radio for Peacebuilding Africa: Project Evaluation. Executive Summary

Brussels: Search for Common Ground, Radio for Peacebuilding Africa (2006), 10 pp.
"In 2004, SFCG’s Radio for Peacebuilding, Africa (RFPA) project conducted a baseline survey in 21 sub-Saharan African countries, to ascertain knowledge of, attitude towards, and use of peacebuilding techniques by radio professionals. 1000 radio professionals were surveyed by email with phone follo ... more
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Fighting Poverty: Utilizing Community Media in a Digital Age. Practitioners’ Reflexions from an Interactive Roundtable at the World Congress on Communication for Development (WCCD)

Montreal; Paris; Berne: AMARC World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters; UNESCO; Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) (2006), 77 pp.
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Le coupage dans la presse. Gangrène du journalisme: Les pistes pour en sortir

Serge Bailly, Godefroid Bwiti Lumisa (coord.)
Groupe de recherche et d’échanges technologiques (GRET) (2006), 65 pp.
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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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African Media Development Initiative: Uganda. Research Findings and Conclusions

John Wotsuna Khamalwa
London: BBC World Service Trust (2006), 70 pp.
"Changes have been gradual but the watershed was 1992/4 when the airwaves were liberalised, leading to the mushrooming of media institutions especially in the broadcasting area. In the past five years, the media in Uganda has become more vibrant, more liberated and there has been more freedom of exp ... more
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Der Blick der Anderen: Europa in der Wahrnehmung von Medien Afrikas, Asiens und Lateinamerikas

Oliver Zöllner (ed.)
Bochum: Paragon Verlag (2006), 161 pp.
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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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Whatever the Weather: Media Attitudes to Reporting Climate Change

Rob Harbinson
London: Panos London (2006), 16 pp.
"The media play an important role in stimulating discussion in developing countries. Yet journalists asked by Panos say that the media have a poor understanding of the climate change debate and express little interest in it. Public discussion of the policies and issues involved is urgently needed. T ... more