ICT Development for Social and Rural Connectedness

✍ Scribed by Nor Aziah Alias (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 53
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
An Overview of Connectedness....Pages 1-9
ICTD and Rural Connectedness....Pages 11-23
A Case of Rural Connectedness: The Malaysian Rural Internet Center (RICs) Users’ Experience....Pages 25-44
Back Matter....Pages 45-46

✦ Subjects

Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet); Management of Computing and Information Systems; Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing