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Information and communications in the Chinese countryside : a study of three provinces
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ISBN: 1464802041 146480205X Year: 2014 Publisher: Washington, District of Columbia : World Bank,

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The report first summarizes the key findings from the following three studies in three provinces (Guizhou, Jilin, Shandong): (a) a demand survey to assess rural ICT access and attitudes; (b) a library study including scoping the status of ICT use in rural libraries; and (c) a limited impact evaluation to examine how ICT interventions have affected rural uers. Then the report addresses the challenges and policy recommendations of ICT use in the Chinese Countryside.


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Africa's ICT infrastructure : building on the mobile revolution
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ISBN: 0821384546 082138676X 9780821384541 9780821386767 Year: 2011 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : World Bank,

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Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have been a remarkable success in Africa. In just 10 years-dating from the end of the 1990s-mobile network coverage rose from 16 percent to 90 percent of the urban population and by 2009 nearly half of Africa's rural population was also living within range of a mobile network. Large-scale investment in the sector across the continent has transformed telecommunications from a luxury enjoyed by a privileged few to a mass-market, low-cost service, used in villages and cities alike.Africa's ICT Infrastructure: Building on the Mobile Revolution char

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