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Contextualising ICT for Development in Zimbabwe
This initiative forms part of a five-country study to provide opportunities for dialogue among Southern African key players in ICT for Development. The discussions will focus on national challenges and opportunities in ICT4D over the next five to ten years.
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Mobile Telephony and the Entrepreneur
Ken Banks has been working to make positive change in Africa for over a decade. He shares his perspective on the rise of mobile technology in Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa is witnessing a new kind of home grown, mobiledriven economic development.
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Teenage Pregnancy in SA
High teen fertility subject of concern in research & policy circles with available data suggesting progress has been made since democracy. DOE adopted a rights-based approach. Introduced guidelines to prevent & manage teen fertility. Policy & practice must be informed by the context of teenage pregnancy.
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Urban Revolution, Urban Governance and International Development
This is the most recent issue of Foresight, ISID’s electronic publication on development.  This issue, by Profs. Lisa Bornstein and Jeanne M. Wolfe, is entitled “The Urban Revolution, Urban Governance and International Development”. 
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Digital Inclusion in Mozambique: A Challenge For All
This initiative forms part of a five-country study in Botswana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe to provide opportunities for dialogue among Southern African key players in ICT for Development.
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IDRC South Africa
IDRC recently analyzed why and how it has worked in countries in transition — from dictatorship to democratic rule, from war to peace. The goal was to better understand how IDRC gathers and shares pertinent information to inform programming and decisionmaking.
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Africa's Development - Prospects and Promises 2008
The objective of the report of the Africa Progress Panel is to examine the state of the continent in 2008, to focus world leaders’ attention on delivering on existing commitments and to mobilise resources to deal with new challenges, in particular the crisis in food production.
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