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Network Cooperation: Development Cooperation in the Network Society
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There are various types of networks active in development cooperation, but network management needs to be incorporated by involved organizations in order to extract the expected benefits from their involvement.Abstract:
Trends in international development cooperation point to the increasing networking of initiatives and programmes, facilitated by information and communications technology (ICT). This allows many more people and organizations from around the world to contribute to a given project, as with the case of online volunteers. There are various types of networks active in development cooperation, but network management needs to be incorporated by involved organizations in order to extract the expected benefits from their involvement. Network analysis practices will help determine if they are set up and managed ppropriately.read more
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Techno-optimism or Information Imperialism: Paradoxes in Online Networking, Social Media and Development
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A Modeling Approach to Simulate Effects of Intercropping and Interspecific Competition in Arable Crops
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Development as Freedom
TL;DR: In this paper, Amartya Sen quotes the eighteenth century poet William Cowper on freedom: Freedom has a thousand charms to show, That slaves howe'er contented, never know.
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Knowledge Societies: Information Technology for Sustainable Development
Robin Mansell,Uta Wehn +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the role of ICTs for sustainable development in knowledge-based development in developing countries, focusing on the creation of innovative knowledge societies and ICT Indicators of Developing country Participation in 'Knowledge Societies'.
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ICT4D 2.0: The Next Phase of Applying ICT for International Development
TL;DR: The paper has shown that ICT4D 2.0 focuses on reframing the poor, and where ICT2D 1.0 marginalized them, allowing a supply-driven focus, ICT3D2.0 centralizes them, creating a demand- driven focus.