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Taking ICT to every Indian village
18.04.2006 What can ICT bring for the inhabitants of 600,000 Indian villages? How India is empowering the poor and marginalised citizens to participate in the emerging knowledge society? How will India provide voice to her millions of citizens? ‘Taking ICT to every Indian village: Opportunities and challenges”, attempts at answering such questions and exploring the complex interactions between ICT and society. more...
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13.04.2006 From the Internet to Al Qaeda, the teetering electricity grid to old school ties, we live in a world of networks. A profoundly disruptive shift has occurred in our societies, making networks the most important organisational form of our time and reshaping the activities of families, governments and businesses. The collection of essays is edited by Helen McCarthy,Paul Miller and Paul Skidmore.
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12.04.2006 In today’s networked world, civil society organizations are recognizing the
power of the Internet for their advocacy work. While many organizations
around the world have already embraced this technology, many
organizations in Africa have not yet been able to access the wealth of
resources available through the Internet.
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21.02.2006 This work sets out to explore the Brazilian information society and sustainable development programs, in an effort to locate intersection points and to identify how information society polices can collaborate in the reduction of regional inequalities in Brazil.
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Work towards knowledge societies The scientific upheavals of the 20th century have brought about a third industrial revolution, that of the new technologies, which are essentially intellectual technologies.Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO while stressing on building knowledge societies reiterates an African proverb, knowledge is like love - it is the only thing that grows by being shared.



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