Information and Communication Technologies and Non-Governmental Organisations: Lessons Learnt from Networking in Mexico

Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-29

  Rodríguez, Gabriela Romo ^a  

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EID: 67649115240     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16814835     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1681-4835.2005.tb00135.x     Document Type: Article

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95. Madon, S. (1999) International NGOS: Networking, Information Flows and Learning, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 8, 251–261.
96. Mansell, R. and Wehn, U. (1998) Knowledge Societies: Information Technology for Sustainable Development. New York: Oxford University Press.
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99. Pearce, J. (2000) Development, NGOs and Civil Society. Oxford: Oxfam.
100. Pianta, M. (2002) Parallel Summits of Global Civil Society: An Update, in: Glasius, M., Kaldor, M. and Anheir, H. (Eds.), Global Civil Society 2002. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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105. Sarukán, J., (2001) El Golfo de California. Un Mundo Aparte. Mexico: Agrupación Sierra Madre, Pegaso, and Casa Lamm.
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108. Spybey, T. (1996) Globalisation and World Society, Cambridge: Polity Press.
109. Starkey, P. (1997) Networking for Development. London: The International Forum for Rural Transport and Development.
110. Surnam, M. and Reilly, K. (2003) Appropriating the Internet for Social Change: Towards the Strategic Use of Networked Technology by Transnational Civil Society Organizations. Social Science Research Council. http://www.ssrc.org/programs/itic
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