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Many who have only experienced face-to-face education in an institutional setting believe that the quality of education provided through distance education is inferior. However, this is far from true, according to Naveed A. Malik, rector of the Virtual University of Pakistan.

International organizations, governments, academia, industry, and the media have all begun to grapple with the information society as a global policy issue.

Story Story is a radio drama set in a busy market in the heart of West Africa. Through its characters - traders, farmers, people with money and power who inhabit the market, we hear the voices of real people.

After two days of meetings in Malaysia involving over 700 experts from around the world, the United Nations initiative to foster information and communication technologies (ICT) in developing countries has established a framework for their activities.

Beyond the School is a project currently being introduced to UK schools by the Centre for Modern Education. It is a heritage education project that uses digital technology to contrast old and new images of the local area. Students can use it to explore how their local environment has changed over a period of time and publish the results in both hard copy and electronic format.

According to the UN estimates, at least 11 million people in Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia are in crisis, making this the region’s worst drought in a decade. The impact of drought has been most severe in pastoral areas on the Ethiopia–Kenya–Somalia border, with reports of malnutrition
levels far beyond emergency thresholds.

The document makes recommendations for improving access to primary education of good quality for all children, especially the poorest. It compiles the outcomes of the Experts’ Meeting on Primary Education for All Children, organized in the Gambia, and several national studies on the status of primary education.

FAO has created a discussion forum on Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) for participants to share experiences and resources, seek advice and test ideas with colleagues working on similar issues.

The need to enhance information flow to farmers led to the inception of the Information and Communication Support for Agricultural Growth in Nigeria Project (ICS-Nigeria). The hope is that access to information will trigger an increase in farmers’ use of agricultural technologies, which in turn will increase their productive capacity.

A general diagram is provided that describes the data analysis questions that you can ask when analysing biodiversity based on the methodologies that are provided in this manual.

This report aims to give an overview of what DAC members currently know about how Information and Communication Technology (ICT) use in developing economies can stimulate economic growth and poverty reduction.

How much does the public know about the international trade agreements governments are negotiating on their behalf? Do ordinary people have any say in the decisions? The Doha talks on a new global trade deal in the World Trade Organization (WTO) have sparked tensions between governments.

"Supporting Women's ICT-Based Enterprises - A Handbook for Agencies in Development" is designed to help anyone working to support women's ICT-based enterprises; specifically micro- and small-scale enterprises (MSEs) in developing countries.

OneWorld south Asia is committed to empower the community using ICTs as an effective communication medium.

In this paper - 'Jefferson Rebuffed - The United States and the Future of Internet Governance', the authors have attempted at delineating the possible factors behind US resistance to internationalisation of internet governance through the WSIS process.

In this book entitled "Perceptions and practice: An anthology of impact assessment experiences" by Kay Sayce with Patricia Norrish provides the impact of several ICT-enabled developmental interventions in various regions of the world. Published by the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), the book explores the myriad effects of such projects through stories from the ground.