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  • Digital Technologies for Agricultural and Rural Development in the Global South

    by Richard Duncombe, Stefano Bocchi, Fritz Brugger, Amanda Caine, Amit Chakravarty, Chris Clarke, Graham Clarkson, Andrew Dearden, Peter Dorward, Gordon Gow0, Charlotte Jordan1, Linus Kendall2, Stan Karanasios3, Sumanth Kumar4, Luis Emilio Lastra-Gil5, Alberto Lubatti6, Mukund Patil7, Andrea Porro8, Simone Sala9, Worlali Senyo0, Mira Slavova1, Luka Wanjohi2 ...
    This book shares research and practice on current trends in digital technology for agricultural and rural development in the Global South. Growth of research in this field has been slower than the pace of change for practitioners, particularly in bringing socio-technical views of information technology and agricultural development perspectives together. The contents are therefore structured around ... Read more

    $51.89 USD

  • Policymaking for Critical Infrastructure

    A Case Study on Strategic Interventions in Public Safety Telecommunications

    by Gordon A. Gow ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 2005. By weaving together three distinct fields - public policy, technology studies and management of critical infrastructure - this volume shows how public policy can help to improve the management of large technical systems. A much-needed analytical framework, based on approaches drawn from established work in science and technology studies, is applied to a case study of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Digital Communication for Agricultural and Rural Development

    Participatory Practices in a Post-COVID Age

    Edited by Ataharul Chowdhury, Gordon A. Gow ...
    Series series Earthscan Food and Agriculture
    This volume presents insights on the challenges of digital communication and participation in agricultural and rural development. The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed that digital technology and mediated participation is more important and essential in managing ongoing communication for development projects than ever before. However, it has also underscored the various challenges and gaps in ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D)

    by Richard Heeks ...
    Series series Routledge Perspectives on Development
    Mobile phones are close to ubiquitous in developing countries; Internet and broadband access are becoming commonplace. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) thus represent the fastest, broadest and deepest technical change experienced in international development. They now affect every development sector – supporting the work of hundreds of millions of farmers and micro-entrepreneurs; ... Read more

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  • Development Management

    Theory and practice

    Edited by Justice Nyigmah Bawole, Farhad Hossain, Asad K. Ghalib, Christopher J. Rees, Aminu Mamman ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    Despite significant financial investments, the rate of development and pace of poverty reduction in developing and transitional countries has not always matched expectations. Development management typically involves complex interactions between governmental and non-governmental organisations, donors and members of the public, and can be difficult to navigate.This volume brings together a group of ... Read more

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  • Powering a Learning Society During an Age of Disruption

    Edited by Sungsup Ra, Shanti Jagannathan, Rupert Maclean ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This open access book presents contemporary perspectives on the role of a learning society from the lens of leading practitioners, experts from universities, governments, and industry leaders. The think pieces argue for a learning society as a major driver of change with far-reaching influence on learning to serve the needs of economies and societies.The book is a testimonial to the importance of ... Read more

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  • Social Work Skills for Community Practice

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    by Mary-Ellen Brown, MSW, MPA, LCSW, PhD, Katie Stalker, MSW, PhD ...
    Focuses on skill-building to facilitate positive social changeWith straightforward content enriched by practical and applicable learning experiences, this comprehensive text prepares social work students for careers in community organizing and macro practice. It focuses on building the social work skills required for organizing communities, including cause-based coalitions, geographically/identity ... Read more

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  • Better Data, Better Decisions: Towards Impactful Forest Monitoring

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    Decisions based on data and analysis are often deemed to produce a better outcome and providing decision-makers with information is seen as an important development strategy. The adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals reinforces the importance of science-policy linkages. In the forestry sector, efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) have created ... Read more

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  • Development As Leadership-Led Change: A Report For The Global Leadership Initiative

    by Andrews Matthews; McConnell Jesse; Wescott Alison ...
    Development involves change, but many development initiatives produce unimpressive results. The authors ask why and consider how to close the gap between the intended change and what we actually see in the evidence.This paper presents the findings of a study, initiated by the multi-donor Global Leadership Initiative and led by the World Bank Institute (WBI), to examine leadership in the change ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance

    Edited by Stephen Boucher, Carina Antonia Hallin, Lex Paulson ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance explores the concepts, methodologies, and implications of collective intelligence for democratic governance, in the first comprehensive survey of this field.Illustrated by a collection of inspiring case studies and edited by three pioneers in collective intelligence, this handbook serves as a unique primer on the science ... Read more

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  • Impact of Information Society Research in the Global South

    Edited by Arul Chib, Julian May, Roxana Barrantes ...
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    The second volume in the SIRCA book series investigates the impact of information society initiatives by extending the boundaries of academic research into the realm of practice. Global in scope, it includes contributions and research projects from Asia, Africa and Latin America. The international scholarly community has taken a variety of approaches to question the impact of information society ... Read more

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