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."
Binswanger, Hans P. (author), Pingali, Prabhu L. (author), and Binswanger: Chief of the Agriculture Research Unit, World Bank; Pingali: Economist, International Rice Research Institute
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1987
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 72 Document Number: C03407
Notes:
This paper is a shortened version of authors' "The evaluation of farming systems and agricultural technology in sub-Saharan Africa," presented at the Alexander von Humboldt Award Colloquium; 1984; University of Minnesota, In: Ruttan, Vernon W.; and Pray, Carl E., eds. Policy for agricultural research. Boulder, CO : Westview Press, 1987. p. 283-318
Lloyd, Mark (author) and Center for American Progress, Washington, D.C.
Format:
Commentary
Publication Date:
2007-06-27
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 168 Document Number: C28107
Notes:
4 pages., Discusses how rural Americans are lagging behind in connectivity, compared with urban/suburban Americans and rural systems in other parts of the world.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 117 Document Number: C13013
Journal Title Details:
2 pages
Notes:
RIRDC completed projects in 1999-2000:human capital, communications and information systems, Rural Industries Research & Development Corporation (RIRDC), Barton, ACT, Australia, 2000
