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Social development in Indian rural communities: Adoption of telecentres
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The study concludes that many ICT initiatives in India lack a comprehensive plan in addressing the target population, struggle to sustain due to insufficient infrastructure and are too ambitious as they are not equipped with appropriate technologies in serving the rural communities.About:
This article is published in International Journal of Information Management.The article was published on 2008-12-01. It has received 78 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Public participation & Hype cycle.read more
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Blockchain, adoption, and financial inclusion in India: Research opportunities
TL;DR: The practical contribution of this paper is the discussion of how blockchain can alleviate the issue of financial exclusion in rural India, thereby providing a basis for a solution that could connect rural Indians to global supply chain networks.
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Understanding e-Government portal use in rural India: role of demographic and personality characteristics
TL;DR: A model of e‐Government portal use is developed using various individual characteristics, namely demographics and personality, as predictors, which found support for the model, with most variables being significant and explaining 40% of the variance in e‐ government portal use.
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Information and communication technologies (ICTs) and farmers' decision-making across the agricultural supply chain
Jabir Ali,Sushil Kumar +1 more
TL;DR: The paper empirically analyses the role of information delivery through information and communication technology (ICT) in enhancing decision-making capabilities of Indian farmers and emphasizes the importance of designing ICT enabled information systems to suit the socio-demographic profile of the user groups.
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Icts for the broader development of india: an analysis of the literature
TL;DR: In this article, secondary data from academic articles with a focus on India are used to analyse the contribution of ICTs towards the achievement of specific development goals, and the analysis shows that many ICT-based initiatives have taken place over the last decade and some positive effects have resulted.
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Energy ‘access’ for sustainable development: Enabling modern energy practices in rural communities
TL;DR: In this article, the challenges and opportunities of effective energy access and sustainable development are embedded in under-recognised social routines and contexts that subsume essential dimensions of daily life and demonstrate the value of integrating these dimensions into development approaches through being attentive to, and co-produced by, the plurality of actors, settings and routines.
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An Introduction to Sustainable Development
TL;DR: An Introduction to Sustainable Development as mentioned in this paper presents the concept and practice of sustainable development as a process that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
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The Digital Challenge: Information Technology in the Development Context (Voices in Development Management)
S Krishna,Shirin Madon +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive and insightful overview of ICT and development around the world is presented, which examines the role of IT in providing new economic and industrial opportunities, in increasing access to global information and communication, in assisting small cultural and ethnic groups to overcome disadvantages of physical distance and in catalysing initiatives towards democratic decentralization and empowerment of citizens.
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Telecentres: Case Studies and Key Issues
Colin Latchem,David Walker +1 more
TL;DR: The book opens with a global overview of the multipurpose community telecentre movement and discusses the key issues of ownership, management, operational.
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