Funding and Implementing Universal Access : Innovation and Experience from Uganda.
Uganda was one of the first countries in Africa to develop a policy on universal access to information and communication technologies (ICTs) and to implement a universal access fund, designed to support initiatives aimed at improving poor and rural populations' access to ICTs. Today, Uganda...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ottawa :
International Development Research Centre,
2005.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Uganda was one of the first countries in Africa to develop a policy on universal access to information and communication technologies (ICTs) and to implement a universal access fund, designed to support initiatives aimed at improving poor and rural populations' access to ICTs. Today, Uganda's universal access policy and rural communications development fund are generally seen as "best practice". This book presents the Ugandan experience - an experience that was unique because of the country's early liberalization of the communication sector and explosion in the use of mobile communication tech. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (105 pages) |
ISBN: | 9781552501887 1552501884 |