TY  - BOOK
AU  - Steyn,Jacques
AU  - Van Belle,Jean-Paul
AU  - Villanueva Mansilla,Eduardo
ED  - IGI eBooks.
ED  - IGI Global.
TI  - ICTs for global development and sustainability: practice and applications 
SN  - 9781615209989 (ebook)
AV  - HC59.72.I55 I494 2011e
U1  - 303.48/33091724 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Hershey, Pa.
PB  - IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA)
KW  - Information technology
KW  - Developing countries
KW  - Digital divide
KW  - Economic development
KW  - Bringing the Internet to a rural area
KW  - Computers for development in the Andes
KW  - Impact of ICT on rural development and poverty reduction
KW  - Interactive ICTs
KW  - Community owned ICT Network
KW  - Leveraging telecenters for sustainable development
KW  - Libraries and knowledge centres
KW  - Scalable and sustainable health information systems
KW  - Telecenters as gendered spaces
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; 1. Re-thinking methodology through the E-Bario Project / Poline Bala -- 2. Bringing the Internet to the rural area / Zulkefli Ibrahim, Ainin Sulaiman, Tengku Faziharudean -- 3. The Siyakhula Living Lab / Caroline Khane, Ingrid Sieb�orger, Hannah Thinyane, Lorenzo Dalvit -- 4. Does IT help or not? / Antonio Andrade -- 5. Digital doorways / Kim Gush, Ruth de Villiers, Ronel Smith, Grant Cambridge -- 6. Information and communication technologies in administrative reform for development / Shefali Virkar -- 7. Localisation of indigenous content / Jason Gibson, Brian Lloyd, Cate Richmond -- 8. Mobile phones, diasporas and developing countries / Graeme Johanson, Tom Denison -- 9. "The men never say that they do not know" / Dorothea Kleine -- 10. Reducing digital divide / Anand Chand -- 11. Stronger voices? / Claire Bur�e -- 12. Donor project funded ICT initiatives in the vocational and technical education (VTE) sector of Asian developing countries / Channa Gunawardena, David Brown -- 13. iREACH / Helena Grunfeld, Se�n Siochr�u, Brian Unger, Sarun Im -- 14. Why institutional partnerships matter / Rajendra Kumar -- 15. "Developed in the South" / Vincent Shaw, Jorn Braa -- 16. The role of statistics in development informatics / Jacques Steyn; Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers; Also available in print
N2  - "This book unites the theoretical underpinnings and scientific methodology of an approach of deploying ICT in marginalized communities to bridge the so-called digital divide. This book contains case studies of Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean that demonstrate which approaches work and which do not in deploying public access to information sources"--Provided by publisher
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ER  -