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Technologies of choice? ICTs, development, and the capabilities approach
Cambridge, Mass.:
MIT Press
(2013), xii, 267 pp., bibliogr. p.235-250, index
ISBN 978-0-262-30551-8 (ebook); 978-1-299-18464-0 (print)
"Drawing on Amartya Sen's capabilities approach to development - which shifts the focus from economic growth to a more holistic, freedom-based idea of human development - Dorothea Kleine examines the relationship between ICTs, choice, and development. Kleine proposes a conceptual framework, the Choi...
A practical guide to sustainable IT
Association for Progressive Communications (APC)
(2012), 167 pp., bibliogr. p.160-161, index
ISBN 978-92-95096-71-4
CC BY-NC-ND
"This practical guide to sustainable IT offers a detailed, hands-on introduction to thinking about sustainable computing holistically; starting with the choices you make when buying technology, the software and peripherals you use, through to how you store and work with information, manage your secu...
New media and intercultural communication: identity, community and politics
New York et al.:
Peter Lang
(2012), xx, 337 pp., index
ISBN 978-1-433-11365-9
"Chapters explore what happens in praxis when digital media are implemented across cultures and are contested and negotiated within complex local and political conditions. The book showcases interpretative and critical research from voices with diverse backgrounds, from locations around the world." ...
Leaping over the firewall: a review of censorship circumvention tools
Washington, DC:
Freedom House
(2011), 75 pp.
"Internet censorship poses a large and growing challenge to online freedom of expression around the world. Censorship circumvention tools are critical to bypass restrictions on the internet and thereby to protect free expression online. Circumvention tools are primarily designed to bypass internet f...
Localizing the internet: an anthropological account
New York et al.:
Berghahn
(2011), xxv, 150 pp., bibliogr., index
ISBN 978-0-85745-197-2
"Internet activism is playing a crucial role in the democratic reform happening across many parts of Southeast Asia. Focusing on Subang Jaya, a suburb of Kuala Lumpur, this study offers an in-depth examination of the workings of the Internet at the local level. In fact, Subang Jaya is regarded as Ma...
IT sector promotion in developing and emerging countries: manual
Bonn; Eschborn:
Sector Project Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
(2011), 123 pp., abbrev. p.4, bibliogr. p.119-121
"The manual and the toolbox seek to address the following question: how to maximise the contribution of the IT industry in developing and emerging countries towards sustainable economic development and poverty reduction? In order to achieve this, the Manual analyses the obstacles impeding the compet...
Working towards a deeper understanding of digital safety for children and young people in developing nations
Cambridge, Mass.:
Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
(2010), 32 pp.
"While the safety of children and young people in digital spaces has become an important issue of qualitative as well as quantitative research in the developed world and has led to a significant body of knowledge, the research efforts in the developing nations, with few exceptions, are still relativ...
The guide to researching audiences: concise edition
Guildford, Surrey:
JISC; Strategic Content Alliance; Curtis+Cartwright Consulting
(2009), 26 pp.
"This is the 'concise edition' of 'The Guide to Researching Audiences'. It is a shorter version of the main Guide, designed to provide an easily accessible summary of the key principles of audience research and some practical information. The full version of the Guide contains more detailed informat...
Digital review of Asia Pacific 2009-2010
Montréal; Ottawa; New Delhi et al.:
Orbicom; International Development Research Centre (IDRC); Sage
(2009), xxvii, 391 pp., abbrev. p.xv-xxvii, index
ISBN 978-81-321-0084-3 (pbk); 978-1-5255-0456-7 (ebook)
"The biennial Digital Review of Asia Pacific is a comprehensive guide to the state-of-practice and trends in information and communication technologies for development (ICTD) in Asia Pacific. This fourth edition (2009-2010) features 30 economies and four subregional groupings. The chapters provide u...
Green printing guidelines
Washington, DC:
Wordfirm
(2009), 4 pp.
"The production of paper is both resource intensive and highly polluting. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, the pulp and paper industry is the third-largest industrial consumer of energy and the fourth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases among manufacturers. According to the U.S. Environme...
The guide to researching audiences
Guildford, Surrey:
Curtis+Cartwright Consulting; Strategic Content Alliance
(2008), 74 pp., bibliogr. p.70-73
"This guide has been written for people in the UK public sector delivering online digital services who wish to research their audiences. Although it is focused on online digital services, it will also be useful for researching audiences reached via other channels. It is primarily aimed at non-expert...
Banking on mobiles: why, how, for whom?
Washington, DC:
Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP)
(2008), 27 pp., illustr., tables, bibliogr. p.24
"This paper examines how banks can translate the potential of mobile phones into greater financial access for poor people. Although mobile phone operators have been able to use the mobile phone for mobile remittance and bill payment services in several countries, banks have had little success in usi...
Compendium on impact assessment of ICT-for-development projects
Ottawa:
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
(2008), iii, 155 pp., illustr., tables, bibliogr. p.114-155
CC BY-SA
"Billions of US dollars are invested each year by the public, NGO and private sectors in information-and-communication-technologies-for-development (ICT4D) projects such as telecentres, village phone schemes, e-health and e-education projects, e-government kiosks, etc. Yet we have very little sense ...
Digital review of Asia Pacific 2007-2008: reports on 31 economies and 2 sub-regional associations
New Dehli:
Sage India; Orbicom; International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
(2008), xv, 373 pp., abbrev. p.xiv-xv, illustr., tables, index
ISBN 978-1-52550-377-5 (IDRC); 978-0-7619-3674-9 (pbk); 978-81-7829-840-5 (pbk India)
Community emergency radio networks
[author]
(2007), vii, 106 pp., illustr., tables, bibliogr. and web direct. p.105-106
ISBN 978-1-60145-145-3
"[This book] gives you ideas for building an emergency radio network (ERN) for your community. An ERN uses small Family Radio Service (FRS) radios or combined FRS/General Mobile Radio Service (GMRS) radios for members of the community. The community relay station can be (1) a basic or "fancy" ham st...
Globale Medienkultur: Technik, Geschichte, Theorien
Wien:
Facultas wuv
(2006), 239 pp., chronol. p.228-231, bibliogr. p.232-235, index
ISBN 978-3-8252-2723-4
"Die moderne Kommunikation hat eine weltumspannende Medienkultur geschaffen. Diese beginnt im neunzehnten Jahrhundert, führt von der Verlegung des ersten Tiefseekabels bis zu den ersten Satelliten und weiter zur Oberfläche der Web-Welt, die den Erfahrungswandel der Medien als Interface-Kultur äst...
Acacia prospectus 2006-2011
Programm and Partnership Branch International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
(2006), 57 pp., illustr., bibliogr. p.39-41
"Acacia’s mission is very straightforward; it is to support research on ICTs that improve livelihood opportunities, enhance social service delivery, and empower citizens while building the capacity of African researchers and research networks. Towards that end, Acacia has identified three core res...
Local information networks: social and technological considerations
New Delhi:
UNESCO
(2006), 82 pp., illustr.
ISBN 81-89218-08-5
"This publication aims at understanding the nature and importance of various configurations of social and technological networks in community settings that combine to form a Local Information Networks (LIN). In this study LINs are conceptualised as comprising of two very different elements: one soci...
Die sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Implikationen der Mobiltelefonie in Ruanda: Eine Typologie unter dem Gesichtspunkt Telefonbesitz und Telefonzugang
In: Daumenkultur: das Mobiltelefon in der Gesellschaft
Peter Glotz; Stefan Bertschi; Chris Locke (eds.)
Bielefeld:
transcript
(2006), pp. 41-59, bibliogr. p.56-59
"Trotz der Herausforderungen bei der telefonischen Erschließung abgelegener Gegenden bietet der Besitz eines Handys für Millionen individueller Nutzer im gesamten Afrika südlich der Sahara auf jeden Fall signifikante wirtschaftliche und soziale Vorteile und Möglichkeiten. Besonders wertvoll ist,...
Thumb culture: the meaning of mobile phones for society
Bielefeld:
transcript
(2005), 296 pp.
ISBN 978-3-8394-0403-4
CC BY-NC-ND
Other Editions: also published in German
"Mobile communication has an increasing impact on people's lives and society. Ubiquitous media influence the way users relate to their surroundings, and data services like text and pictures lead to a culture shaped by thumbs. Representing several years of research into the social and cultural effect...
