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The Thematic Dossiers or peer-reviewed compilations will be prepared by guest-editors. The series will include commissioned reports, or collections gathered through calls for papers.

On this site also book reviews will be published. Feel free to contact us if you are planning to write a review. We also offer review editorships.

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selected reports

The Ever-Shifting Internet Population: A new look at Internet access and the digital divide
by Amanda Lenhart
New IICD case-study on use of IT in reporting human rights abuses in Zimbabwe
by bridges.org
Deregulation, Entry of MNCs, Public technology procurement and Innovation capability in India's Telecommunications Equipment Industry
by Sunil Mani
Internet, Development and Education in Asia
by Jeroen de Kloet
Internet, Development and Education in Africa
by Nyaki Adeya and Banji Oyeyinka
Internet, Development and Education in Latin America
by Myriam Diocaretz
Internet, Development and Education - A Comparison Between Africa, Asia and Latin America
by Myriam Diocaretz and Jeroen de Kloet
A meeting between cultures: An Intergeneration Program-Preserving Culture in a Technological Environment
by Edna Aphek
In this paper Edna Aphek describes her experiences with the program 'The Intergeneration Program and the New Technologies', in which young students, grades 5-9, tutor seniors at computer and internet skills and learn from their older students, a chapter in the latter's personal history. Together they write a digital version of the story; together they scan pictures, albums, documents; search for information on the net as well as in other sources and soon will upload these stories to a designated site, on the internet. The paper describes the meeting between the two generations, the model and its implementation.
Children of the Information Age
By Edna Aphek
This paper attempts at understanding the unique characteristics of the children of the Information Age. The paper maintains that the new means of information and communications have caused a radical shift in the role and status of children and that a "New Child" is emerging. The paper maintains that the computer and the Internet have revolutionized the balance between the power of the adults and the status of children. The loss of authority on the part of the adults on the one hand and the new power held by the Computer Children on the other, is ever changing the adult- children relationship in schools and at homes.
Learning and Growing by Giving: Children as Agents of the ICT
By Edna Aphek
The digital divide has been looked upon in many countries and rightly so as a major problem. We, in Israel, try to look upon it as a "probotunity". I learnt of this term from the Brainstorming site http://www.brainstorming.co.uk. This term probotunity means looking at a problem as an opportunity. The opportunity is there, in combining the deep thorough knowledge of computer and internet skills, at the hand of our youth with the giving of this vast knowledge to others. The following is a number of on- going projects in Israel .

 

 
 

 

 
 
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