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ICT Development for Social and Rural Connectedness provides an introduction to the concept of 'connectedness', and explores how this socio-psychological term has evolved during the age of the Internet. The book surveys the principles of ICT for development (ICTD), and closely examines how ICT has played a pivotal role in the rural community development of various countries. To highlight the continued benefits of ICT in these regions, the book presents an in-depth case study that analyzes the connectedness within the rural internet centers of Malaysia. The book is intended primarily for researchers and practitioners as a reference guide to ICTD in rural environments.

Office management --- Computer science --- Information systems --- Computer. Automation --- computers --- informatica --- bedrijfsadministratie --- informatiesystemen --- informatica management --- computerkunde --- Information technology --- Communication in rural development. --- Internet --- Rural development --- Social aspects. --- Technological innovations.

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This guide is intended for people working in research and development. It introduces participatory development communication concepts, discusses the effective two-way communication approaches, and presents a methodology to plan, develop, and evaluate communication strategies.

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ICT Development for Social and Rural Connectedness provides an introduction to the concept of 'connectedness', and explores how this socio-psychological term has evolved during the age of the Internet. The book surveys the principles of ICT for development (ICTD), and closely examines how ICT has played a pivotal role in the rural community development of various countries. To highlight the continued benefits of ICT in these regions, the book presents an in-depth case study that analyzes the connectedness within the rural internet centers of Malaysia. The book is intended primarily for researchers and practitioners as a reference guide to ICTD in rural environments.

Information systems. --- Information technology -- Social aspects. --- Internet -- Social aspects. --- Information technology --- Communication in rural development --- Internet --- Rural development --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Computer Science --- Social aspects --- Technological innovations --- Communication in rural development. --- Social aspects. --- Technological innovations. --- Community development, Rural --- Development, Rural --- Integrated rural development --- Regional development --- Rehabilitation, Rural --- Rural community development --- Rural economic development --- Citizen participation --- Computer science. --- Application software. --- Management information systems. --- Computer Science. --- Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet). --- Management of Computing and Information Systems. --- Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing. --- Agriculture and state --- Community development --- Economic development --- Regional planning --- Information Systems. --- Informatics --- Science --- Computer-based information systems --- EIS (Information systems) --- Executive information systems --- MIS (Information systems) --- Sociotechnical systems --- Information resources management --- Management --- Application computer programs --- Application computer software --- Applications software --- Apps (Computer software) --- Computer software --- Communication systems

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Information and communication technologies (ICTs)--especially the Internet and the mobile phone--have changed the lives of people all over the world. These changes affect not just the affluent populations of income-rich countries but also disadvantaged people in both global North and South, who may use free Internet access in telecenters and public libraries, chat in cybercafes with distant family members, and receive information by text message or email on their mobile phones. Drawing on Amartya Sen's capabilities approach to development--which shifts the focus from economic growth to a more holistic, freedom-based idea of human development--Dorothea Kleine in Technologies of Choice? examines the relationship between ICTs, choice, and development. Kleine proposes a conceptual framework, the Choice Framework, that can be used to analyze the role of technologies in development processes. She applies the Choice Framework to a case study of microentrepreneurs in a rural community in Chile. Kleine combines ethnographic research at the local level with interviews with national policy makers, to contrast the high ambitions of Chile's pioneering ICT policies with the country's complex social and economic realities. She examines three key policies of Chile's groundbreaking Agenda Digital: public access, digital literacy, and an online procurement system. The policy lesson we can learn from Chile's experience, Kleine concludes, is the necessity of measuring ICT policies against a people-centered understanding of development that has individual and collective choice at its heart.

Information technology --- Telecommunication --- Small business --- Communication in rural development --- Economic development --- Social aspects --- Technological innovations --- IT (Information technology) --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Businesses, Small --- Medium-sized business --- Micro-businesses --- Microbusinesses --- Microenterprises --- Small and medium-sized business --- Small and medium-sized enterprises --- Small businesses --- SMEs (Small business) --- Electric communication --- Mass communication --- Telecom --- Telecommunication industry --- Telecommunications --- Technology --- Telematics --- Information superhighway --- Knowledge management --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Rural development --- Business --- Business enterprises --- Industries --- Communication --- Information theory --- Telecommuting --- Size --- E-books --- SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General --- INFORMATION SCIENCE/Technology & Policy --- ECONOMICS/Trade & Development --- Telecommunication. --- Technologie de l'information --- Télécommunications --- Petites et moyennes entreprises --- Economic aspects --- Economic aspects. --- Technological innovations. --- Aspect économique --- Chili --- Innovations