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" ICTs and the millennium development goals : "
Harleen Kaur, Xiaohui Tao, editors
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ICTs and the millennium development goals : : a United Nations perspective /\ Harleen Kaur, Xiaohui Tao, editors
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1 online resource (xii, 271 pages) :: illustrations (some color)
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1489974393 (electronic bk.)
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: 9781489974396 (electronic bk.)
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1489974385 (print)
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9781489974389
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9781489974389 (print)
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Includes index
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Learning, Communication and Interaction via Wiki: An Australian Perspective -- ICTs Diffusion Trajectories and Economic Development -- An Empirical Analysis of Gendered Differences in MDG Awareness Across Sources of Information -- Global Evidence of Age-Structured Differences in MDG Awareness Among Users of Personal Computers -- Finding Weighted Positive Influence Dominating Set to Make Impact to Negatives -- A Conceptual Interdisciplinary Plug-and-Play Cyber Security Framework -- Mobile Phone and Development: Synthesis on New Misuse Perspective -- Incorporating ICTs in Schools for Effective Education -- Implementing ICT in Schools in a Developing Country -- Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Applications for Customer Relationship Management (CRM) -- Information Retrieval Using Rough Set Approximations -- The Role of ICTs in Poverty Eradication -- ICT-Based Trade Facilitation and the MDGs -- A Case Study: From Game-Programming to ICTs -- Challenges for Mobile Governance in India
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This book attempts to create awareness about the UN-MDGs and how various ICT can be harnessed to appeal to different demographics. Current empirical evidence suggests that MDG awareness is relatively low particularly in developed countries, and that the levels of MDG awareness vary considerable across socioeconomic variables or demographics from United Nations perspective. It also examines how ICT can be used to bring about technical and social innovations strengthen livelihoods, support economic development, water and climate resilience and improve the education and health sectors and enhance
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Information technology-- Economic aspects.
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Computer Science.
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Business Information Systems.
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Health Informatics.
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Information Systems and Communication Service.
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338.4/7004
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HC79.I55
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Kaur, Harleen
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Tao, Xiaohui
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Ohio Library and Information Network.
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