Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 192 Document Number: D03080
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Shawnee Library System, Carterville, Illinois. 14 pages., Report of an 18-month program to engage business people and farmers with information services provided by community libraries.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 141 Document Number: D06289
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Table of contents, executive summary and recommendations sections printed for ACDC file., Report by the Working Group on Information Needs of Communities, U. S. Federal Communications Commission, Washington, D.C. 468 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: D06701
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Online from P2P Foundation. 5 pages, including responses., Perspectives on "rural hubs" as reinvention of the "village as a 'place of many trades,' embedded in silence and beauty."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: D06779
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Online from the Society for News Design (SDN). 6 pages., Report from 10 cross-functional teams of designers, developers product owners, educators and students who met in Austin, Texas,to create prototypes of solutions to the question,"How might we invent tools that promote community?"
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 166 Document Number: D11691
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2 pages., Online from website of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Paris, France., Description of the UNESCO Horizontes Program, through which young people from some rural schools in Peru learn to grow vegetables in their homes and farms. Youths work with their families, using audios and texts provided to them. Through the program, they can "implement their life projects and dedicate themselves to activities linked to the development of their communities inside or outside their locality without losing their identity."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 159 Document Number: C25910
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Posted at www.thehoot.org > "Grassroots media" section, Women's Feature Service via Media South Asia. 3 pages., Describes the development and pioneering role of a rural magazine for which rural women handle all the reporting, writing, editing, layout, artwork, photography and circulation.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 159 Document Number: C25912
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Posted at www.thehoot.org > "Grassroots media" section, Via Media South Asia. 5 pages., "Community radio takes root in Kurnool in Andhra Pradesh as women's self help groups use the media for local development."
Department of Agricultural Journalism, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1930
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 159 Document Number: C26022
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23 pages., Series of public service advertisements for local banks to use to help develop farms and farming in their communities. Individual ads involve use of pasture lands, dairy feeding, soil building and weed control.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2005-11
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 160 Document Number: C26293
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10 pages., Case study of TARAhaat, an e-business "created to bring the benefits of the Internet to India's rural population." The title combines an Indian NGO intiative (Technology and Action for Rural Alternatives, TARA) with "haat" (meaning a village bazaar).
Yongling, Zhong (author), Riggs, Michael (author), Heller, Nathaniel (author), and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2005-11
Published:
China
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 160 Document Number: C26294
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8 pages., Case study of a government-supported information service center, called "Service Station," that provides (and gathers) information from farmers at county, township and village levels. Uses electronic and other channels.
MacKenzie, Fiona Haslam (author), James, Amity (author), and Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation, Australian Government, Barton, ACT.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
Australia
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C27004
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Executive summary posted at www.rirdc.gov.au/reports/HCC/03-001sum.html; full report posted at www.rirdc.gov.au/reports/HCC/03-001.pdf, RIRDC Publication No. 03/001., Describes a leadership development effort by radio program from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).
Kilpatrick, Sue (author), Johns, Susan (author), Mulford, Bill (author), Falk, Ian (author), Prescott, Libby (author), and Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation, Australian Government, Barton, ACT.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2002-06
Published:
Australia
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C27008
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 167 Document Number: C27912
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1 page., Identifies 10 modules dealing with the role of telecenters in communities, local participation, needs assessment, telecenter management, financial sustainability, marketing, communication planning, information production and dissemination, training for telecenter activities and making computers work for you.
Colle, Royal D. (author) and Anh, Nguyen Tuan (author)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2006-09-25
Published:
Vietnam
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 167 Document Number: C27918
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Via online. 10 pages., Case report of university involvement in national development through the ICT4D (information and communication technologies for development) movement.
National Association of Farm Broadcasting, Platte City, Missouri.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2008-11-12
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 169 Document Number: C28444
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5 pages., Summary of a panel discussion in a joint session of the 2008 NAFB convention and National AgriMarketing Association (NAMA) in Kansas City, Missouri. Panelists examine what it takes to cater to rural lifestyle needs and expectations.
Amjad, Khadija (author) and Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2008-12
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 170 Document Number: C28540
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Via Media Re:public Case Studies 2008: news and information as digital media come of age. 6 pages., Describes development and approach of a news website that serves several rural towns in New Hampshire.
Stites, Tom (author) and Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2008-12
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 170 Document Number: C28541
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Via Media Re:public Case Studies 2008: news and information as digital media come of age. 10 pages., Analyzes the role of editors in a dynamic media era. Uses local "correspondents" in rural community newspapers to illustrate potential frameworks for the operation of news organizations in a digital environment.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 170 Document Number: C28590
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Via online site. 17 pages of the report retrieved., Section about "Health and Education" includes 11-country analysis of the influence of radio and television programming on health knowledge and behavior in rural households.
Miller, Ryan (author / Homeland Security and Technology Division, National Governors Association) and National Governors Association Center for Best Practices, Washington, D.C.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2008-05-20
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 170 Document Number: C28678
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 172 Document Number: C28979
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Knowledge Share Fair for Agricultural Development and Food Security at FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy, January 20-22, 2009. 6 pages., Notes from a session at the Knowledge Share Fair about the role and unique value of radio in rural development.
Matthess, Annemarie (author) and Kreutz, Christian (author)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2008
Published:
International: Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische, Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH, Eshborn, Germany.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 172 Document Number: C29014
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41 pages., Provides a systematic overview of Web 2.0 experiences made to date in Africa, Asia and Latin America. It serves as a practice-oriented introduction to the theme and discusses both the potentials and the possible limits to the participatory web..
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 174 Document Number: C29759
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Recommendations from the 2nd Agriculture Leadership Summit, New Delhi, India, September 4-5, 2009. 13 pages., Summary and recommendations, including those involving extension and communications.
Community Development Resource Association, Cape Town, South Africa.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2007
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 178 Document Number: C35698
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1 page., Diagram distinguishes between the different kinds of strategies found in most NGO work: relief and welfar, capacity building: socio-economic, capacity-building: organization/community and leadership, advocacy or rights based approaches, social movements and sustainable systems.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 180 Document Number: C36194
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Retrieved 04/10/2011, 6 pages., "Forthcoming in Connected for Development: Information Kiosks and Sustainability, UNICT Task Force and Digital Partners, edited by Akhtar Badshah, Sarbuland Khan and Maria Garrido."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 182 Document Number: C36255
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Regional workshop of this title held in Quito, Ecuador, April 20-22, 2004. 7 pages., Organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in cooperation with the Latin American Association for Radio Education and the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 179 Document Number: C36293
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Via Consultative Group to Assist the Poor, Washington, D.C. 1 page., Reports on a service enabling workers in urban areas to send money to their families in rural areas, using mobile phones.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 182 Document Number: C36924
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3 pages., Representative of TVE Asia Pacific speaks about his comments at the 8th Annual Symposium on Poverty Research in Sri Lanka. His session title: "Taking it off the page: alternative mediums of communication to influence change." Comments on inept media coverage of the poor and offers some basic rules of engagement in "telling media stories from the Bottom of the Pyramid."
Davis, Kristin (author), Ochieng, Cosmos (author), and International Finance Corporation, World Bank Group, Washington, D.C.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2006
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 182 Document Number: C36929
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Pages 42-54 in First Annual IFC/FT Essay Competition., Bronze Award winner in this essay competition sponsored by the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank Group and the Financial Times. Authors argue that the predominant economic model in many African countries is inappropriate. They propose efforts to create an "appropriate African economy, based on the dynamic needs, conditions and capabilities of the majority of the African population."
Bhatnagar, Subhash (author), Dewan, Anika (author), Torres, Magui Moreno (author), Kanungo, Parameeta (author), and World Bank, Washington, D.C.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 182 Document Number: C36945
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Empowerment Case Studies. 7 pages., Recipient of the "Most Promising Social Enterprise Award 2002" by Digital Partners USA and the "Best Information and Communication Technology Story Award" by the International Institute for Communications and Development (IICD) and Infodev (World Bank).
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36950
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Posted at http://leisaindia.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/PLDP-FINAL-PDF-medium.pdf, Pages 13-16 in Strengthening people-led development: a joint effort of local communities, NGOs and donors to redefine participation. MISEREOR e.V. 56 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36951
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Posted at http://leisaindia.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/PLDP-FINAL-PDF-medium.pdf, Pages 17-21 in Strengthening people-led development: a joint effort of local communities, NGOs and donors to redefine participation. 56 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36952
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Posted at http://leisaindia.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/PLDP-FINAL-PDF-medium.pdf, Pages 22-26 in Strengthening people-led development: a joint effort of local communities, NGOs and donors to redefine participation. 56 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36954
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Posted at http://leisaindia.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/PLDP-FINAL-PDF-medium.pdf, Pages 31-35 in Strengthening people-led development: a joint effort of local communities, NGOs and donors to redefine participation. 56 pages., Interview with Emmanual Yap.
