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Outsourcing university research as development aid?
Newsweek-International Edition this week (Aug. 21-28, 2006) has several reports about higher education. The main piece is about newly published rankings of universities throughout the world. Among the factors used to determine the rankings are number of international faculty and … Continue reading
Posted in Development, Education, Knowledge development
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Glossary news
Ismael Peña at Ictlogy.net has kindly offered to host my glossary project on his wiki server. I think a wiki is much better suited to hosting this project than a blog, so I’ve accepted his offer. Currently I’m collecting terms … Continue reading
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Starting a glossary
Many visitors to my blog end up here in their quest for simple definitions of key terms related to the ICT for development agenda. So I’ve decided to start compiling a glossary of ICT4D terms. I am going to place … Continue reading
Posted in Development, Glossary, ICTs, Leapfrogging development
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The United Nations Millennium Declaration and the knowledge-based economy
Time for another installment related to my quest to unravel the deep hidden meanings of the Millennium Declaration (UNMD), the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), globalization, ICTs, etc.. If the UNMD is about globalization, which it largely is, the referenced document … Continue reading
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Criticism of a criticism of UN-GAID
I came across an article today which was included in the UN ICT Task Force newsfeed. It’s a commentary written by Nalaka Gunawardene on the SciDev.Net web about the new UN Global Alliance for ICT and Development (UN-GAID). Gunawardene is … Continue reading
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UN Millennium Declaration and globalization
Several months ago I posted an analysis of the UN Millennium Declaration (UNMD). One of the things I mentioned was the stated goal of the UNMD, to promote globalization in a positive light and to ensure that everyone benefits equally … Continue reading
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