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The Effects
of Information on the Development
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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 12:42:00 -0400
From: Yacine
Khelladi <[email protected]>
WARNING: THE FOLLOWING IS A NON EDITED
MACHINE TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL IN FRENCH
> Meeting of the European partners of
the EADI September 1999
> These 3 days organized in the more
global setting of the conference
> of the association of Research Institutes European for the
> Development allowed partners of group "information" of
> the EADI to exchange their professional experiences.
> The problematic of effects of information
on processes of
> development has been analyzed by Stephan PARKER of the FID in the Hague,
> James DEAN of Panos, Peter Ballantyne of EDPCM and Louise LASSONDE.
> For the World Bank the access to the knowledge by countries of the south
> via networks of communication must have a positive effect on the
> development; but a contrario what constitutes the knowledge owes
> to be defined by those that have need of it; without the capacity to
value it
> to interpret it and to use him it is unproductive. The development
> networks also have the effect of to divide the world between them that
have there
> access and those that don't have access there and to impoverish these
last. Some
> makes the calm question remained the one of the social uses of the NTIC:
who
> produces contents, that use them, that control fluxes, who,
> masters networks? The development of these networks also has for
> effect of focusing on all the attention on these new medias to the
> detriment of a capitalization of knowledge and knowledge to make.
> These meetings permitted to reactivate
networks of relations
> professional at the level European, and to discover news
> structures or of new projects: creation of Center for
> international Cooperation in Bonn or regroup many
> institutes of research on this development (www.cic-bonn.org);
> presentation of the project "INASP newsletter" for the in line stake
of
> African newspapers (www.oneworld.org/inasp).
Presentation of the APC
> "Association for Progressive Communication" (www.
apc.org) that offers
> to the NGO and partners of the development of means and networks
> of communication around the problematic of the peace, of the,
> lasting development with experiences in India, to the Sahara, etc..
> The ACP uses in an intensive way forums of discussion. Shared
> proposes to collect experiences, to encourage formulation of
> strategies, and to develop interdisciplinarity in the domain of the
> health (www.shared.de);
a new program of the FAO proposes the
> VERCON project: Virtual Extension and Research Communication Network
> (www.fao.org/waicent).
> In short LOOKS in France propose a
collection of texts "Internet in
> South" ; one can discover it on the site
> (www.regards.cnrs.fr/africanti.html)
we will hold you aware of
> the release of the CD Rom. And still meetings of the EADI are
> the opportunity many casual contacts, or of announcements such the one
> made by the center of development of the OECD for the resumption of
sound
> Macrothesaurus by new partners.
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