International: International Training Division, Office of International Cooperation and Development, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 175 Document Number: C30032
Notes:
Estimated 150 pages., "Tested training experiences for participants working in rural development programs." Outline and resources for a six-week course.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C18407
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Pages 39-52 in Bruce R. Crouch and Shankariah Chamala (eds.), Extension education and rural development. Volume 1. John Wiley and Sons, Chichester. 371 pages.
Dordick, Herbert S. (author), Bradley, H.G. (author), and Nanus, Burt (author)
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
1981
Published:
USA: Ablex Publishing Corporation, Norwood, NJ.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C21250
Notes:
Includes a discussion (p. 151) about attitudes of rural residents in support of rural post offices, despite potentials for using electronic technology instead of physical delivery of mail. "Of the Service's 40,000 buildings, 30,800 can be considered community or rural installations and generate only 4.5% of the total revenues." Mentions (p. 216-217) several agricultural applications of computer networks. (p. 217) Farmers are among the latest group to join a fast-growing list of non-technical users of computer networks. They are becoming aware that farming is not a way of life but a business - one that needs management tools." Predicts (p. 237) "In the nineties the issue will be one of equality of access to information, with the specialized networks doing very well financially because of the valuable and efficient services they will be providing. For some time, thoughtful observers have expressed fear that the emerging information society will produce a new class of information elite, and, indeed, there do exist two classes of people and businesses: the information users and the information used." Observes that electronic technologies are not decentralizing and opening access to business opportunities, but leading toward concentration of the components of the network marketplace. (p. 237) "This greater concentration of intellectual power in the emerging information society can only lead to concentrations of industrial and financial power which are not in concert with the American economic dream."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 91 Document Number: C06584
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James F. Evans Collection, In: Management of Transfer of Farm Technology. India : National Institute of Rural Development, 1981. p. 103-105. Paper presented at the National Workshop on Management of Transfer of Farm Technology; 1979 November 19-24; National Institute of Rural Development, Hyderabad, India.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C12686
Notes:
Pages 85-96 in Bruce R. Crouch and Shankariah Chamala (eds.), Extension education and rural development. Volume 1 - International experience in communication and innovation. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester. 371 p.
