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Ahmed Tareq Rashid
Pág. 14 pgs.
Lack of sustainable approaches for public access venues like telecentres have led to the emergence of several entrepreneurial and market-driven models of telecentres in developing countries that are driven by multinational corporations, governments and s...
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Ricardo Gomez
Pág. pp. 19 - 33 pgs.
Measuring the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) for community development is critical, yet it remains elusive. This article presents findings from an exploratory study of public access computing (PAC) services in Colombia, South ...
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Savita Bailur,Silvia Masiero
Pág. pp. 27 - 42 pgs.
The critical role of the information intermediary in supporting community participation in telecenters and community multimedia centers [CMCs] has been recognized for some time. However, the literature has largely taken a neutral/positive perspective (th...
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Luis Fernando Baron-Porras,Ricardo Gomez
Pág. pp. 43 - 57 pgs.
Public access computing (PAC) venues bring the benefits of computers and the Internet to a broad sector of the population of Latin American countries. While most previous studies have looked primarily at telecenters, this study of PAC venues explores sim...
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Michael L. Best,Dhanaraj Thakur,Beth Kolko
Pág. pp. 75 - 89 pgs.
We examine the extent to which user-based subsidies can promote the financial/social sustainability and development impact of telecenters. We do this by looking at a coupon scheme used by the USAID funded eCenter network in Kyrgyzstan. We found that user...
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Michael L. Best,Rajendra Kumar
Pág. pp. 31 - 45 pgs.
We have examined longitudinally an ICT for a development project in rural India, closely watching activities and surveying users at as many as 100 Internet facilities in more than 50 different villages. The Sustainable Access in Rural India (SARI) projec...
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Chunbo Zhang
Pág. pp. 39 - 55 pgs.
Construction of rural telecenters has been recently promoted by Chinese government officials as an innovative way to solve the problem of underdevelopment in rural areas. To address questions on the project's effectiveness and manageability, this article...
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Angela Maria Barreto,Maria Dulce Paradella,Sônia Assis
O acesso e o uso da informação são questões relacionadas ao desenvolvimento humano em seus múltiplos aspectos. Percebe-se um diferencial entre as pessoas que têm acessibilidade aos meios de informação ? uma pequena parcela da população ? e as que não têm...
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Wallace Chigona,Paul Licker
Pág. pp. 57 - 73 pgs.
In general, studies of the adoption of communal computing facilities (CCFs) such as telecenters tend to be atheoretical. In this article, we use Rogers' diffusion of innovations (DoI) theory as a framework. As the number and variety of CCFs has increased...
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Savita Bailur
Pág. pp. 61 - 80 pgs.
Involving stakeholders is often seen as a means to more successful information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) projects. Hence, it can be appropriate to research ICT4D projects by taking both the perspective of stakeholder theory a...
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