A new approach for evaluating research intended for the “real world."
AI’s potential for enhancing development efforts is enormous, but we need to ensure its ethical and equitable use.
A new model for optimizing the impact of research and innovation
The work of activist and lawyer Nighat Dad embodies the digital rights dichotomy facing Pakistan and many other developing countries.
Information and communication technologies have long promised to provide quality education, improve health care, allow open government, and solve environmental issues.
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.