Author examines the challenges and limitation of recent ICT developments, especially when "for millions of people, they remain no more than a dream." Also reminds that the concept of "communications technology" encompasses more than computers and the internet.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C16749
Notes:
Chapter 7 in Sohail Inayatullah and Susan Leggett, Transforming communication: technology, sustainability, and future generations. Praeger, Westport, Connecticut. 200 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C16750
Notes:
Chapter 8 in Sohail Inayatullah and Susan Leggett, Transforming communication: technology, sustainability, and future generations. Praeger, Westport, Connecticut. 200 pages.
Author describes these trends that involve communications programs in colleges of agriculture, extension and research programs: mission creep (to more PR), abandoning our roots (in pursuit of high rankings), communication decentralization, professional slippage (off the faculty ladder), administrative disconnect (with communications leaders), insufficient funding for strategic marketing of colleges, lack of increased communication with nonfarm audiences.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: C23926
Notes:
Via The Hoot, Media Foundation, New Delhi, India. 2 pages., Analysis shows gap between newspaper content and village conditions. Author quotes one village source: "Water, forest and land are traditional system here. Our culture is linked with it. Newspaper should."
Vittachi, Anuradha (author / Director, OneWorld International Foundation) and OneWorld International Foundation, London, England.
Format:
Speech
Publication Date:
2002-12
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 150 Document Number: C24174
Notes:
Retrieved May 5, 2006, From oneworld.net 9 pages., Kanchana Abhayapala Memorial Lecture in Sri Lanka. Speaker calls for listening to voices of those who usually are rendered voiceless. Provides case examples of using information and communication technologies for grassroots development.
