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- Tinker, Tiller, Technical Change: Technologies from the People
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Author: Gamser, M.S., H. Appleton and N. Carter (eds.) Issue: ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-07 13:39
- Problems of introducing computers into development programmes
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The article identifies some of the problems in information technology in developing countries, and is based on field research into the use of computers in health programmes in East Africa and Nepal. The visits were part of an ODA-funded project to design ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:53
- Svalbard Global Seed Vault: a ‘Noah’s Ark’ for the world’s seeds
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News about Norway’s plans to establish a ‘doomsday vault’ for seeds in the permafrost of the Artic archipelago of Svalbard as a back-up for conventional gene banks reached the world press in 2006. The idea of a Global Seed Vault, which today is considered ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:08
- Is the doctor on? In search of users for medical software in rural Himalayas
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The Indian healthcare sector provides ripe ground for development as access to high-quality and timely medical diagnosis remains unrequited among its vast rural populace. With an acute shortage of doctors in rural areas, medical diagnostic software has ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-03-30 16:07
- The People's Communication Charter
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Many governments and international organisations have offered utopian visions of a Global Information Infrastructure (GII), a successor to the Internet, which will enable global sharing and communication. The development of the GII rests on the capacity o ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:58
- Gender and Technology: Empowering Women, Engendering Development
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Author: Everts, Saskia Issue: Volume 9, Numbe ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-22 08:46
- Integrating participatory elements into conventional research projects: measuring the costs and benefits
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Until recently, participatory and conventional approaches to agricultural research have been regarded as more or less antagonistic. This article presents evidence from three sub-projects of a Thai-Vietnamese-German collaborative research programme on 'Sus ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:00
- Knowledge, communication, development: a perspective from Latin America
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Knowledge in development has been perceived as a one-way commodity that developed nations could bring ‘down to’ the level of ‘developing countries’. Sharing knowledge is generally seen as a North–South operation. This vertical approach to knowledge in dev ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:02
- Making Health Care Equipment: Ideas For Local Design And Production
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Author: Platt, Adam and Nicola Carter Issue: ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-07 09:06
- Mapping the road to development: a methodology for scaling up
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Understanding local variability in context and mobilising local participation to define development agendas are widely accepted development strategies. There remain, hoUnderstanding local variability in context and mobilising local participation to defi ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:53
