• Reaching the Unreached: Community Based Village Knowledge Centres and Village Resources Centres 

  Nanda, Suchit; Arunachalam, Subbiah (2010)

  The book explores the history, initiatives and achievements of the M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF). These include the bio-village initiative, designed to encourage the development of market driven on-farm and ...
• Report of Writeshop : a Writeshop to enhance the capacities of IDRC post Tsunami project partner in India on documentation, 29 September 2009 – 02 October 2009 

  Association for Stimulating Know How (Association for Stimulating Know How (ASK), Gurgaon, Haryana, IN, 2009)

  To assist researchers in understanding the importance of project documentation, a post-tsunami workshop was coordinated for practitioners in the area of Disaster Risk Reduction, and community resilience building, to help ...
• Strengthening resilience in tsunami-affected communities : coastal bioshields, livelihood development, and village knowledge centres in India and Sri Lanka; final report (April 2006 to March 2009) 

  M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, IN, 2009)

  Mangrove and non-mangrove bioshields, livelihood development and diversification, and information and communications for resilience: all were addressed in this project. The project linked ecological rehabilitation, livelihood ...
• Global Communications Newsletter, October 2010 

  Bregni, Stefano (IEEE Communications Society, 2010)

  Broadband Internet should be considered an indispensable service to an information-driven society. This newsletter provides topical information, events and effects of ICTs in development. More specifically in this issue: ...
• How iREACH has contributed to local communities 

  Grunfeld, Helena; Hak, Sokleap; Pin, Tara (Informatics for Rural Empowerment and Community Health (iREACH), KH, 2009)

  The Informatics for Rural Empowerment and Community Health (iREACH), an ICT4D pilot project in Cambodia funded by International Development Research Center (IDRC), started in 2006. Using primary data from field research ...
• Connecting communities - improving livelihoods 

  ENRAP (2011)

  The focus of the issue is improvement of rural livelihoods through the use of ICTs. Tailor made information delivery to farmers in five Indian villages via mobile phone technology, has resulted in an increase of net income ...
• i4d (information for development) : gender and ICTs, vol. VII no. 7, July-September 2009 

  Gupta, Ravi (Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies, 2009)

  i4d contains articles, case studies and essays on the theme of ‘ICT for development’ (ICT4D) and related issues. The articles in this issue provide new ideas regarding gender and technology, covering topics such as the ...
• Outcome mapping learning community : newsletter no. 1, 2009 

  Cardoso, Eva; Hearn, Simon (ODI, London, GB, 2009)

  The Outcome Mapping Learning Community is a global group of over 1200 individuals dedicated to collective learning and sharing of knowledge around Outcome Mapping (OM). The focus of this issue is complementary approaches ...
• iREACH : lessons from a community owned ICT network in Cambodia 

  Grunfeld, Helena; Siochrú, Seán Ó; Unger, Brian; Im, Sarun (Information Science Reference, Hershey, PA , US, 2011)

  The Informatics for Rural Empowerment and Community Health (iREACH) project in Cambodia invited community members to become active participants in the production of the ICT environment, including the physical infrastructure, ...
• Improving rural livelihoods in Bhutan through addressing identified information needs : a study of two community information centres; final report 

  Namgay Wangchuk (Department of Information technology, Ministry of Information and Communication, Thimphu, BT, 2008)

  The report highlights two Community Information Centres: at Kuenga Rabten, Trongsa; and Tangmachu, Lhuentse in Bhutan. The centres were provided with dial-up and broadband (VSAT) Internet connection. VoIP (Voice over ...
• Homeworkers and ICTs : South-East Asia; regional report 

  Chong Sheau Ching; Czarina Saloma; Tham Lai Chun; Wong Peck Lin; Sumathi Dilling (eHomemakers (Corpcom Services Sdn Bhd), MY, 2006)
• Impact of ICT carried livelihood information on rural communities of Bangladesh (October, 2005-June, 2007) 

  Raihan, Ananya; Hasan, Mahmud (Development Research Network (D.Net), BD, 2005)
• Research into the development and effective use of ICT-enabled rural extension system in Afghanistan : final technical report 

  International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Andhra Pradesh, IN, 2007)
• Fostering sustainable disaster resilient communities : a concept paper, v2.1 

  Udu-gama, Natasha (LIRNEasia, Colombo, LK, 2008)

  The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami highlighted the need for disaster risk reduction actions to minimize the harm that can be caused by hazards in general and by rapid-onset, large-scale geographical hazards such as cyclones and ...
• Two complementary mobile technologies for disaster risk reduction through warning 

  Samarajiva, Rohan; Waidyanatha, Nuwan (LIRNEasia, Colombo, LK, 2008)

  Disaster risk reduction is a core function of government. It is possible to significantly improve this government function using mobile application and leveraging the explosive diffusion of the technology even among the ...
• Evaluating last-mile hazard information dissemination : a research proposal 

  Samarajiva, Rohan (LIRNEasia, Colombo, LK, 2008)

  This is a comprehensive and detailed report regarding implementation of a first-responders ICT strategy for emergency communication and disaster management in Sri Lanka. The project showed that ICTs can be incorporated ...
• Hazard warnings in Sri Lanka : challenges of internetworking with common alerting protocol 

  Gow, Gordon; Anderson, Peter; Waidyanatha, Nuwan (ISCRAM, Brussels, BE, 2007)

  There is a growing call for the use of open source content standards for all-hazards, all-media alert and notification systems. This paper presents findings on the implementation of Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) as a ...
• Last-Mile Hazard Warnings System : evaluation of a pilot for a national implementation plan 

  Waidyanatha, Nuwan (IEICE, Tokyo, JP, 2008)

  The plan of the Community-based Last-Mile Hazard Warning System (LM-HWS) is to complement the efforts at the National and Global levels by preparing the last-mile communication segment of an end-to-end hazard detection and ...
• Challenges of optimizing common alerting protocol for SMS based GSM devices in last-mile hazard warnings in Sri Lanka 

  Waidyanatha, Nuwan; Dias, D.; Purasinghe, H. (LIRNEasia, Colombo, LK, 2008)

  The aim of the Last-Mile Hazard Warning System (LM-HWS) is to deploy various alert and notification wireless technologies intended to reduce the vulnerability of local communities to natural and manmade hazards in Sri ...
• Community-based hazard warning in Sri Lanka : miniaturization assessment of terminal devices in the last-mile link 

  Waidyanatha, Nuwan; Gow, Gordon; Anderson, Peter (LIRNEasia, Colombo, LK, 2008)

  The M=9+ earthquake in Sumatara, Indonesia, on December 26, 2004 at 00:59 GMT triggered destructive tsunami waves, which greatly affected Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, the Maldives, and Thailand. People were caught unawares ...

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