[KNJIGA][B] Digital skills: Unlocking the information society

AJAM Van Deursen, JAGM Van Dijk - 2014 - Springer
In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the attention given to the socalled digital divide
in developed countries gradually decreased. The common opinion among policy makers …

Digital green: Participatory video for agricultural extension

R Gandhi, R Veeraraghavan, K Toyama… - … on information and …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Digital green is a research project that seeks to disseminate targeted agricultural information
to small and marginal farmers in India using digital video. The unique components of digital …

[PDF][PDF] Sustainability failures of rural telecenters: Challenges from the sustainable access in rural india (sari) project

ML Best, R Kumar - Information Technologies & International …, 2008 - itidjournal.org
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 …

Contradictions in the last mile: Suicide, culture, and E-Agriculture in rural India

GD Stone - Science, technology, & human values, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Despite its use to exemplify how the world is “flat,” India is in many ways “spiky.” Hyderabad
is a prosperous hub of information–communication technology (ICT) while its impoverished …

ICTs for agricultural extension: a study in the Indian Himalayan region

VLV Kameswari, D Kishore… - The Electronic Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
This paper reports on the availability, use and information seeking behaviour of a farming
community with specific reference to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). It …

Issues affecting the social sustainability of telecentres in develo** contexts: A field study of sixteen telecentres in Jamaica

A Bailey - The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
This paper examines issues faced by Jamaican telecentres in their ongoing operations as
their roles evolve to address new issues that may arise in communities they serve. An …

Warana unwired: Replacing PCs with mobile phones in a rural sugarcane cooperative

R Veeraraghavan, N Yasodhar… - … on Information and …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present what we believe to be the first documented experiment to replace
an existing PC-based system that had goals of" bridging the digital divide" for an agricultural …

Digital technology at the edge of capitalism: Experiences from the Brazilian Amazon rainforest

DDC Leal, M Krüger, VTE Teles, CATE Teles… - ACM Transactions on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
It is sometimes argued that there is hardly a place in the world in the 21st century left
untouched by global capitalism [111, 112]. Even so, some places remain at the periphery …

Very low-cost internet access using KioskNet

S Guo, MH Falaki, EA Oliver, S Ur Rahman… - ACM SIGCOMM …, 2007 - dl.acm.org
Rural Internet kiosks in develo** regions can cost-effectively provide communication and
e-governance services to the poorest sections of society. A variety of technical and non …

ICT for Development: solutions seeking problems?

A Chaudhuri - Journal of Information Technology, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper investigates information and communication technologies for development
(ICT4D) projects from around the world. It finds that computer and Internet promotion …