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"In 1951 librarians from the American Library Association's International Relations Committee and publishers from the American Book Publishers Council Foreign Trade Committee met at the Library of Congress to discuss how to meet the "need for books in developing countries." The nonprofit Franklin Bo ... more

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Making the Connection: Scaling Telecenters for Development

Barbara Fillip, Dennis Foote

Washington, DC: Academy for Educational Development (AED);Microsoft Corporation;International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2007), 237 pp.

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University Journalism Education: A Global Challenge

Ellen Hume

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2007), 35 pp.

"This report explores the current state of university-based journalism education and describes avenues for engaging those international media developers by highlighting three strategies: • Universities are important for entry-level journalism training. International media developers should conside ... more

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Media Assistance: Challenges and Opportunities for the Professional Development of Journalists. Working Group Report

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2007), 19 pp.

"This report represents input from twenty-three practitioners who have observed, planned, and implemented media education programs of the U.S. and other Western governments, as well as those of private funders. The group discussed broad lessons learned and specific recommendations for policymakers, ... more

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Media Law Assistance: Establishing an Enabling Environment for Free and Independent Media to Flourish

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2007), 23 pp.

"The working group considered how international media development programs—particularly those that are U.S.-supported—have succeeded or failed, discussed best practices, and made recommendations. Journalist Ann McFeatters served as the rapporteur for the meeting. The discussion focused on severa ... more

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De-Colonising Journalism Curricula: A Research & “development” Perspective

Evangelia Papoutsaki

Media Asia, volume 34, issue 2 (2007), pp. 79-87

"This paper argues that there is a need to decolonise journalism curricula and practices from the prevailing Western models. Putting journalism curricula in the wider context of higher education in developing and non-Western countries is an important step towards this direction. The paper looks at j ... more

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Bibliographie Michael Traber SMB (1929-2006)

Fritz Frei (ed.)

Immensee: Missionsgesellschaft Bethlehem (2007), 29 pp.

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The Copy/South Dossier: Issues in the Economics, Politics, and Ideology of Copyright in the Global South

Alan Story, Colin Darch, Deborah Halbert

Canterbury: University of Kent Law School, Copy/South Research Group (2006), 207 pp.

"This unique dossier was assembled by the activist Copy South Research Group, a loosely-affiliated group of researchers based in a number of countries across the South and the North who seek to research the inner workings of the global copyright system and its effects on the Global South. The dossie ... more

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HIV/AIDS Media Guide: IFJ Media Guide and Research Report on the Media's Reporting of HIV/AIDS
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Ruth Pollard, Emma Walters

Brussels: International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2006), 27 pp.

"The guide is divided into three parts: the basics, the media and more about HIV. It provides answers to frequently asked questions about HIV and AIDS, treatments and diagnoses. Other sections cover the history of the virus, transmission, treatments, opportunistic infections and a chronological acco ... more

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Annual Review

London: Book Aid International (2006), 15 pp.

"Annual report of the major UK book charity Book Aid International (BAI), which provides an overview of its work each year, supporting libraries and literate environments in the countries of the South. During the course of 2006 it sent over half a million high-quality books and journal to developing ... more

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Caught in the Web or Lost in the Textbook? Eighth International Conference on Learning and Educational Media

Éric Bruillard, Bente Aamotsbakken, Susanne V. Knudsen, Mike Horsley (eds.)

International Association for Research on Textbooks and Educational Media (IARTEM) (2006), 485 pp.

This volume gathers contributions presented during the 8th IARTEM conference on learning and educational media, held in Caen (France) in October 2005. The conference reader contains a wide range of contributions from industrialised, transitional and developing countries.

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The Open Access (open Journal Systems) Paradigm and the Production of Scholarly Journals in Developing Countries

Samuel Kwaku Smith Esseh

Burnaby, BC: Simon Fraser University, Master Thesis (2006), viii, 76 pp.

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Incommunicado Reader

Geert Lovink, Soenk Zehle (eds.)

Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2005), 192 pp.

"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 ... more

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The Literature of the Book: Publishing Development

Ian Montagnes

Logos: the Journal of the World Book Community, volume 15, issue 2 (2005), pp. 92-94

"A short, critically annotated listing of significant literature in two categories: (i) books that examine the environment of publishing in developing countries, and (ii) books and training manuals that have been written specifically to assist publishers in those countries." (Hans M. Zell, Publishin ... more

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Massenmedien und sozialer Wandel

Michael Kunczik, Astrid Zipfel

In: Publizistik: Ein Studienhandbuch

Michael Kunczik; Astrid Zipfel

Köln et al.: Böhlau (2005), pp. 104-128

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Global Political Communication: Good Governance, Human Development, and Mass Communication

Pippa Norris

In: Comparing Political Communication: Theories, Cases, and Challenges

Frank Esser; Barbara Pfetsch (eds.)

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2004), pp. 115-150

"Since the start of the “third wave” of democratization, in 1974, the proportion of states that are electoral democracies has more than doubled, and the number of democratic governments in the world has tripled (Diamond 2001). Countries as diverse as the Czech Republic, Mexico, and South Africa ... more

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Evaluating INASP-Health: Final Report

Kathleen Armstrong

Oxford: International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) (2004), 82 pp.

"INASP-Health is a UK-based programme that promotes international networking amongst all those involved in the provision and use of health information including librarians, publishers, biomedical researchers, funding agencies, development professionals, frontline healthcare providers, public health ... more

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Open Source in Developing Countries

Sanjiva Weerawarana, Jivaka Weeratunga

Stockholm: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2004), 110 pp.

HIV/AIDS Media Guide: IFJ Media Guide and Research Report on the Media's Reporting of HIV/AIDS Key Guidance

HIV/AIDS Media Guide: IFJ Media Guide and Research Report on the Media's Reporting of HIV/AIDS
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