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Item Digital domains and new development strategies: revisiting ICT policy-making in the Global SouthDunn, Hopeton S.; Kwame BoafoNational communication planning in Africa must incorporate the latest generation of information technologies, but planning must aim at concrete development results in terms of employment and incomes. For the technology to generate the best results it must be based on institutional changes such as improvement of literacy levels and a type of basic and professional education which requires active reaching out to get information to develop personal knowledge systems. Planning requires multi-stakeholder cooperation involving educational, entrepreneurial, political and community cooperation. Regulation and investment/entrepreneurial opportunities need to be far more flexible and user-friendly.Access to information in government, research centres and other institutions needs to be far more open, available and inviting.Item Jamaican media: ringing the changes: 50 years and beyondDunn, Hopeton S.Item Learning smart: enhancing education through technology([Kingston, Jamaica : Shortwood Teachers College], 2008) Dunn, Hopeton S.Item Teleworking the mobile Caribbean : enabling remote work among the marginalized in Jamaica and Trinidad and TobagoDunn, Hopeton S.The 21st century is characterized by the rapid growth of information and communication technologies (ICTS) and their assimilation into all aspects of political economy. The Caribbean is characterised by a heavy infusion of moblie telephony in the day-to-day lives of its people. Proficiency in the use of such tools is of real value in this emerging information economy, and many governments have pursue the policy of enhancing their peoples' ICT capacities and capabilities as a means of attaining growth under difficult circumstances. This article argues that more wide-scale and selective adoption of these technologies is through telework, a concept extensively discussed in the ppaer as an emerging and relevant work arrangement. The implementation of telework through the use of mobile broadband is seen as an opportunity to exploit the advantage of a Caribbean workforce with virtually universal access to mobile telephony. The paper is grounded in experiences of Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago with the widespread use of mobile telephony. It argues for greater policy action and more policy-relevant research into how the cellular phone can be used as a bridging techology to encourage more advanced usage of broadband applications by marginalized groups in a wide range of work related activities.Item UntitledDunn, Hopeton S.