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- Help or hindrance: the role of UK-based NGOs in building technological capability in small-scale development projects
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Technological capability underpins economic development, but analysis of interviews with workers in international, UK-based NGOs suggests that it is rarely addressed explicitly when considering support for development work. Instead, the core values of the ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:55
- Mobile phones and community development: a contact zone between media and citizenship
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Mobile cellular phones have already been used widely around the world for activism, social and economic development, and new cultural and communicative forms. Despite this widespread use of mobile phones, they remain a relatively un-theorised and un-dis ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-01 11:43
- Information affluence for the developing world: the vision and work of WorldSpace
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The author, founder and Chairman of WorldSpace Corporation, describes the creation of the WorldSpace Foundation to promulgate access to information in the developing world. WorldSpace has launched a digital radio service, and has gained licences to broadc ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:01
- The Internet and the South: Superhighway or Dirt Track?
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Author: Panos Media Briefing Paper No. 16 Issue: ...
Book review - admin - 2009-10-18 20:54
- Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for gender and development
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This article discusses the burgeoning field of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), with a particular focus on the opportunities for its application as part of the international women and development agenda. We discuss recent theoretical developments i ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:45
- Indigenous floating cultivation: a sustainable agricultural practice in the wetlands of Bangladesh
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Floating-bed cultivation has proved a successful means to produce agricultural crops in different wetland areas of the world. In freshwater lakes and wetlands, vegetables, flowers and seedlings are grown in Bangladesh using this floating cultivation techn ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:03
- The impact of agricultural research: evidence from West Africa
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Can agricultural research help to enlist smallholders and their resources for global food security? The Convergence of Sciences (CoS) research programme in Benin and Ghana (2002–2006) tested the impact of technology development, using a pathway fo ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2010-11-09 12:25
- Small and medium-sized enterprise and the development of local technology
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The author argues that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), rather than NGOs, are the most cost-effective and efficient ways of developing and distributing new technology to end users (the poor). ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:55
- Participatory content creation: voice, communication, and development
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This article uses the example of a mobile mixed-media platform – a converted three-wheeled auto-rickshaw – in Sri Lanka in order to explore whether and how content-creation activities can enable marginalised communities to have a voice. It d ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-01 13:41
- The use of donkeys in the central highlands of Mexico: a gender perspective
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A historical study of migratory patterns in central Mexico shows that rural communities have seen shifts in population ratios as well as in the type of activities and responsibilities undertaken by men and women. This has also affected women's use of live ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:01
