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The impact of telecommunications on rural community development is examined through a survey of five rural communities. Horizontal communication strategies examined include geographical redefinition of community & community development communications. Vertical communication strategies include national/international markets, branch plant communications with headquarters, & nonlocal information networks. In general, rather than providing a central & critical component of a development strategy, telecommuniction advances provided an enabling infrastructure for community development, allowing the development process to proceed readily. Advanced telecommunications capabilities were found to compensate for disadvantages stemming from distance from large urban centers. Speed of adoption & imaginative utilization are crucial factors in determining the long-term potential of telecommunications in rural development. 1 Table, 8 References. D. Generoli

This article identifies the most likely public policy challenges and agenda items that policymakers will confront in Latin America 10 years from now. While many of today's challenges will continue to be salient within the public‐policy agenda—the "known knowns"—our goal is to drill down and highlight the most likely sub‐issues and specific policy imperatives and challenges in the medium term (the "known unknowns"). Fifty intensive key informant interviews were conducted with senior and experienced individuals from a range of professional settings, including scholars and academics, agency directors, top think‐tank analysts, heads of non‐governmental organizations, public intellectuals, and senior board members. The article reports on unstructured, one‐on‐one "listening sessions" in which respondents have offered their views on the specific but thus far largely latent public policy issues that they anticipate will need to be addressed looking beyond the status quo ante.

This Policy Research Project examines the capacity of governmental systems to prepare for and respond to climate change and climate-related hazards in a set of large urban areas in Africa. The project gives priority to the role of local government in developing resilience due to its key role in addressing urban vulnerabilities through the provision of local infrastructure and public services, promulgation and regulation of land use and building codes, and other local services that are crucial for effective adaptation to climate change. Although local government capacity in African cities has generally improved in recent decades, the priority for state reform in Africa has been primarily focused on national governments and political legitimacy. While many countries have developed, or are developing, national climate adaptation plans, efforts to systematically address adaptation at the local level frequently face the challenge of collaboration among multiple local government jurisdictions with limited capacity. To investigate local government efforts in building resilience to climate change, this project adopts a comparative case study method examining 10 highly diverse, major African cities: Accra, Ghana; Alexandria, Egypt; Cape Town, South Africa; Casablanca, Morocco; Dakar, Senegal; Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; Johannesburg, South Africa; Kampala, Uganda; Luanda, Angola; and Maputo, Mozambique. ; Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law, with funding from the U.S. Department of Defense ; Public Affairs

Implementation is a critical component of the policy life cycle. More studies are needed to specifically focus on implementation in the public sector, and the successes and failures of those implemented initiatives. We hope that this policy research project serves as an impetus for future work in this area. ; Deloitte Research ; Public Affairs