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Open Data and Open Tools: The Global Impact Study Inventory and Web Application
(Technology & Social Change Group, 2012)What is Open Access to Research Data? Is it free and open access to raw data? Access to data collection tools and instruments? Access to data with tools to organize and analyze? These are the types of questions the ... -
Open Data Challenges in the Public Library Domain
(Technology & Social Change Group, 2021-11-22)Public librarians are eager to learn more about their communities and to provide services or programming that address current community needs. Open data has the potential to answer many of the questions librarians are ... -
Open Development, Open Cambodia
(Technology & Social Change Group, University of Washington Information School, 2012-06-14)The world is witnessing widespread participatory movement toward transparency, democratization, and responsive governance. Pressing social need and enabling technologies have allowed innovative strategies for social change ... -
Overview of Interviews: Leveraging Use of Open Data by Public Library Staff for Community Benefit
(Technology & Social Change Group, 2021-12-07)The project, Leveraging Use of Open Data by Public Library Staff for Community Benefit (IMLS LG-246255-OLS-20), explored questions regarding the challenges and potential benefits of the use of open data by public library ... -
Personal Motivation and ICT Skills Training: Jobs for People with Disabilities in Poland
(Technology & Social Change Group, University of Washington Information School, 2008)This paper is part of a project at the Center for Information and Society to broaden and deepen our understanding of the impact of Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD). Our intention is to ... -
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Poland Polish
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Policy implications from a pandemic broadband adoption program for low-income job seekers
(2021-12)In 2020, many organizations worked to increase broadband adoption in low-income households. Our study examines one Seattle effort that distributed 197 refurbished computers and 174 internet hotspots to low-income job ... -
Portugal English
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PowerPoint: Findings from the Global Impact Study
(Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA), 2014-07-01)Libraries, telecenters, and cybercafés play a critical role in extending the benefits of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to a diverse range of people worldwide. However, their ability to contribute to ... -
Preliminary Activities of the Advancing Library Visibility in Africa Project
(Technology & Social Change Group, 2019-03)Library services play a critical role in supporting communities across the African continent as they pursue sustainable economic growth and social progress. In spite of this, libraries are often overlooked as potential ... -
Protection, Options and Advantages: ICT training to improve economic livelihoods and reduce exploitation among Filipina domestic workers
(Technology & Social Change Group, University of Washington Information School, 2008)The ICTD field is filled with individual success stories extolling the benefits of ICT access and fluency. These stories are often highly influential because they are rhetorically powerful, memorable narratives that create ... -
Public access and development: The impacts of public access venues and the benefits of libraries
(2012-10-02)Public access to information and communication technologies (ICTs) can play an important role in development. Communities benefit when people can access information and communicate with experts and people in their ... -
Public Access Centres in Uganda: The Past, Present and Future
(Technology & Social Change Group, University of Washington Information School, 2008-09-04)The paper is based on the findings of Public access study conducted in Uganda as part of the broader study in 24 countries. It summarizes the methodology of the research, bringing out key findings with success factors ... -
PUBLIC ACCESS TO INFORMATION & ICTs HONDURAS
(Technology & Social Change Group, University of Washington Information School, 2008-08-17)The present document reflects the actual situation in Honduras as far as access to information and communication is concerned. To better elucidate the situation in this country, a situational diagnosis was carried out ... -
PUBLIC ACCESS TO INFORMATION & ICTs PHASE II REPORT Argentina
(Technology & Social Change Group, University of Washington Information School, 2008-08-15)For the last eight years, Argentina has suffered the ups and downs of a deep political, economical, and social crisis, which had been brewing since the late 1970s. This crisis is being overcome in the macro economic and ... -
PUBLIC ACCESS TO INFORMATION & ICTs PHASE II REPORT Bangladesh
(Technology & Social Change Group, University of Washington Information School, 2008-08-15)Public Access Information Venue came into lexicon in the backdrop of changing information and knowledge landscape followed by emergence of Internet in early 1990s. People started to behave differently in terms of accessing ... -
PUBLIC ACCESS TO INFORMATION & ICTs PHASE II REPORT Brazil
(Technology & Social Change Group, University of Washington Information School, 2008-08-15)In recent years, Brazil has undertaken substantial efforts to provide the public with access to information and communication technologies (ICT) to help further the country’s social and economic development. A national ...