ICTs for global development and sustainability [electronic resource] : practice and applications / Jacques Steyn, Jean-Paul van Belle and Eduardo Villanueva Mansilla, editors.
Publication details: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2011.Description: electronic texts (399 p. : ill., maps) : digital filesISBN:- 9781615209989 (ebook)
- Information technology -- Developing countries
- Digital divide -- Developing countries
- Economic development -- Developing countries
- Bringing the Internet to a rural area
- Computers for development in the Andes
- Impact of ICT on rural development and poverty reduction
- Interactive ICTs
- Community owned ICT Network
- Leveraging telecenters for sustainable development
- Libraries and knowledge centres
- Scalable and sustainable health information systems
- Telecenters as gendered spaces
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- HC59.72.I55 I494 2011e
- Also available in print.
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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.
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"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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Description based on title screen (IGI Global, viewed Nov. 15, 2010).