Scaling Impact: Innovation for the Public Good
Scaling Impact introduces a new and practical approach to scaling the positive impacts of research and innovation.
Scaling Impact introduces a new and practical approach to scaling the positive impacts of research and innovation.
Reducing Urban Violence in the Global South seeks to identify the drivers of urban violence in the cities of the Global South and how they relate to and interact with poverty and inequalities.
Information and communication technologies have long promised to provide quality education, improve health care, allow open government, and solve environmental issues.
Globally, local and indigenous approaches to conserving biodiversity, crop improvement, and managing precious natural resources are under threat. Many communities have to deal with “biopiracy,” for example.
A daily battle for rights and freedoms in cyberspace is being waged in Asia.
To mitigate, develop, and improve the lives of those vulnerable to intense natural disasters, climate change, and food insecurity, many agencies are funding and implementing diverse activities from reconstruction to rehabilitation.
Strengthening Rural Livelihoods provides a useful and balanced review of the influence that mobile phones and the Internet can have on supporting the livelihoods of rural people, and particularly farmers in Asia.
This book has been designed for the orientation and training of specialists in open and distance learning methods in Asia.
For observers elsewhere in the world, the most striking feature of distance education (DE) in Asia is the mega-universities and mega-schools that have added many millions to the global tally of distance learners in recent decades.