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.
