"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
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; 2. To give the technocrats and officials actively engaged in the execution of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) guidance on best practice as well as lessons from a community of practice spread around the world." (Executive Summary)
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"Since it was launched in 2000, the Bolivia Country Programme known as TICBolivia has helped over 50,000 people, mainly small farmers, teachers, students, indigenous leaders and local officials, use ICTs to improve their lives and contribute to their country’s development. All the ICT activities g
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enerated under the Country Programme have been developed by and for local people, with support and guidance from IICD and its enabling partners. The strategy has been to give local organisations the tools they need to develop the skills, knowledge and communications infrastructure required to set up a critical mass of locally-owned, sustainable ICT projects and activities in a specific sector such as education or good governance. Today, TICBolivia consists of fifteen projects, a training programme, networking activities, and monitoring and evaluation. The programme is active in three sectors: good governance, education and agricultural livelihoods. Among the participants in the programme are grassroots organisations, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), government bodies, and private companies. By the end of 2004, 86 information access points had been set up throughout the country, 4,400 individuals had been trained in the use of ICT, and a national ICT for development (ICT4D) information network called ‘Red TICBolivia’ was sharing knowledge, working on sector strategies, generating national visibility for the programme and raising awareness of the important role that ICTs play in the nation’s development." (Introduction, page 3-4)
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"Aiming to bring some of the network-cultural forms of collaboration into ICT debates dominated by standard policy and research procedure, the Incommunicado project does not offer a univocal master-narrative of what’s wrong with the world of ICT, or of how it should be. Members of the Incommunicad
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o network are pursueing multiple vectors of inquiry that are unlikely to converge in yet another civil society declaration or intergovernmental policy proposal but - at best - coordinate possible interventions across the imperial terrain of a global network economy, at least heighten our sense of the incommensurability of competing info-political visions. To stress the simultaneity of these efforts, and to take stock of where we think incommunicado ‘is’ at the time of this writing, the entries below are a first attempt to identify some of these vectors." (Instead of an introduction, page 3)
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"Em geral os estudos sobre a relação evangélicos e mídia se notabilizam pela apreciação geral que fazem do assunto. Considerando a situação de pluralismo religioso e a sociedade contemporânea como mercadológica e a necessidade de se estudar as rádios evangélicas do Rio de Janeiro, mostra
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r-se-á neste artigo uma categoria de análise que servirá para identificar as mídias religiosas que tem por motivação a livre concorrência e não a missão e o proselitismo." (Resumo)
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"En el 2005, el Proyecto Antonio Nariño realizó un monitoreo de las informaciones periodísticas sobre el conflicto armado en Colombia, en las emisiones de 10 noticieros de televisión correspondientes a tres canales nacionales (RCN, Caracol y Canal Uno), tres canales regionales (Tele Antioquia, T
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ele Pacífico y Tele Caribe) y un canal local (City TV), con el apoyo de la Embajada de los Paises Bajos. [...] En este contexto se inscribe el interés conjunto del Proyecto Antonio Nariño y UNICEF por examinar las informaciones del conflicto armado interno que involucran de manera directa o relacionada a la infancia. ¿Cuál es el cubrimiento informativo que los noticieros de televisión realizan de la infancia? ¿Qué hechos del conflicto armado están asociados a la visibilidad o invisibilidad informativa de los niños y niñas, adolescentes y jóvenes que no han cumplido los 18 años de edad? ¿En cuáles acontecimientos aparece la infancia como sujeto, fuente o asunto de la información? ¿Qué sectores sociales, culturales y gubernamentales hablan de la infancia? Cuando lo hacen, ¿de qué asuntos hablan? ¿Cómo es la representación visual de la infancia en las noticias sobre el conflicto armado?" (Introducción, página 4)
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"The Brazilian publishing market is optimistic about its near future. According to the Brazilian Book Chamber (CBL - Câmara Brasileira do Livro), the main organization of the sector in Brazil, which comprises all professionals at the national level, the prospects are “favorable, considered to be
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the best in 20 years.” In the short term, the forecast for 2005 is for sales expansion and growth in book production, with title prices staying the same for the next two years without scheduled increases. Both factors result from government initiatives that became effective at the beginning of 2005, for the purpose of reducing taxes related to the book publishing sector. In the long term, throughout the remaining of this decade, a general market expansion is expected with an increase in the number of readers." (Executive summary)
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"Medios para la Paz (MPP), con el apoyo técnico de la Organización Internacional para las Migraciones (OIM) y el apoyo financiero de la Agencia de los Estados Unidos para el Desarrollo Internacional (USAID) realizó, en el 2004, ocho talleres para 250 periodistas sobre el cubrimiento informativo d
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e la problemática del desplazamiento forzado interno. Tema al que no se le presta la debida atención en los medios de comunicación y que no suele relacionarse con los procesos de negociación o la solución de los conflictos. Sin embargo, millones de colombianos han padecido las consecuencias concretas del conflicto con la pérdida de sus familiares, sus bienes y del derecho fundamental a permanecer en un sitio o a movilizarse libremente por el país. De los talleres surge el Manual para un Cubrimiento periodístico responsable del desplazamiento forzado interno que presentamos y que busca responder a las necesidades y vacíos profesionales expresados por los colegas participantes." (Presentación, página 7)
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