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The full range of Digital Opportunity Channel content from its partner network can be browsed by topics/themes. Begin your search by clicking on any of the links on the left or at the bottom of this page which lead to individual topic pages.
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15.12.2005
n the heart of sub-Saharan Africa's most-crowded metropolis, in a dimly lit Internet café thumping with Nigerian music, clusters of two and three teenage boys hover around aging computer screens. They use their Nike T-shirts and baggy jeans to wipe sweat off their brows and palms as they intently craft deceptive e-mails and scour the Web for foreign e-mail addresses.
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Related topics/regions:
[Nigeria]
[ICT]
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30.04.2008
Telecentres can serve as an important source of information by connecting citizens with the government. A growing trend of commercialisation is however treating such entitlements as services and citizens as customers who pay service charges, writes research associate Vivek Vaidyanathan.
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Related topics/regions:
[South Asia]
[ICT]
[Internet]
[Knowledge]
[Governance]
Image: A telecentre in Andhra Pradesh / Photo credit: Infochange
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07.05.2008
Erive Community Radio is bringing a change in the lives of young girls in Maganja da Costa. The UNICEF-supported station has led to a rise in enrollment in primary schools through its programmes promoting girls education. The station is run in partnership with Mozambiques Social Communication Institute.
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Related topics/regions:
[Mozambique]
[Southern Africa]
[Education]
[Gender]
[ICT]
Image: Children produce their own programmes at the Erive Community Radio station/ Photo credit: UNICEF/Lemoyne
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Access, Communications,
Content, E-governance,
Funding/Grant,
Information society,
Intermediate technology,
International cooperation,
Internet, IT training,
Literacy,
Media technologies,
Policy initiatives,
Research,
World Wide Web
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Capacity building, Children,
Civil society,
Culture,
Economy,
Education,
Educational innovations,
Environment, Gender,
Health, Human rights,
Knowledge,
Non-formal education,
Poverty,
Teacher training,
Vocational education
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06.11.2009
Campaigners have appealed to the UN to intervene to halt the evictions of thousands of families from their ancestral home in a Kenyan forest.
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Related topics/regions:
[Kenya]
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