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    2. Distance education through video conferencing

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Kishore, Devesh (author) and Division of Agricultural Extension
    Format:
    Monograph
    Publication Date:
    unknown
    Published:
    India: Indian Council of Agricultural Research
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 132 Document Number: C20027
    Notes:
    Burton Swanson Collection, pp. 59-63; From "Krishi vigyan kendra : a movement"

    3. Distance learning in agriculture -- manage experience

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Arora, S. K. (author) and Division of Agricultural Extension
    Format:
    Monograph
    Publication Date:
    unknown
    Published:
    India: Indian Council of Agricultural Research
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 132 Document Number: C20028
    Notes:
    Burton Swanson Collection, pp. 65-72; From "Krishi vigyan kendra : a movement"

    6. Exploring the feasibility of rural broadband cooperatives in the United States: the new new deal?

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Schmit, Todd M. (author) and Severson, Roberta M. (author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2021-02-13
    Published:
    Netherlands: Elsevier
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12778
    Journal Title:
    Telecommunications Policy
    Journal Title Details:
    Volume 45, Issue 4
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    13pgs, Sufficient access to and utilization of broadband is an ongoing concern for rural economic development. Using a rural region in Northern New York (USA), we consider the investment and operational costs of a broadband cooperative and determine service prices for which it is financially viable. Service prices need to increase 75%–131%, depending on grant restrictions, relative to existing market prices for a new broadband cooperative to become financially feasible. Put differently, the cooperative would not cash flow at market prices unless there was at least 14 potential subscribers per mile at a 62% take rate. For a cooperative, the grant restriction that providers offer a minimum level of speed at a maximum price results in a high level of subsidization by high-speed to low-speed members to support the business. Given grant funding and member equity investments, financial infeasibility has little to do with construction costs, than with annual operational and maintenance costs required to sustain the system long term. More reasonable feasibility scenarios occur for existing utility cooperatives expanding services into broadband, particularly areas with a high proportion of high-speed, year-round users and strong take rates. Consideration of public benefits of broadband arguably needs to be added to the equation, particularly surrounding access to healthcare and educational purposes, and as a prerequisite to supporting taxpayer-funded public-private partnerships to expand broadband services. Policy levers to eliminate or subsidize property taxes and pole rental costs reduce cash flow prices considerably; however, feasibility is highly sensitive to assumed take rates.

    7. ICT [information and communication technologies] for pro-poor provision of public goods and services: a focus on health

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Micevska, Maja (author)
    Format:
    Book chapter
    Publication Date:
    unknown
    Published:
    International
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C25447
    Notes:
    Pages 312-336 in Maximo Torero and Joachim von Braun (eds.), Information and communication technologies for development and poverty reduction: the potential of telecommunications. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland. 362 pages.

    8. ICT and gender equity policy: lessons of the Mali telecentres

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Dumas, Josephine Helen Ann (author)
    Format:
    Dissertation
    Publication Date:
    unknown
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C21058
    Journal Title:
    Digital Dissertation
    Notes:
    Posted at: http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/preview/3065880, 211 pages 1.02 MB, There is an urgent need for a better understanding of the interplay of information and communication technology (ICT) and the role of women in facilitating social, political and economic development. This research examines engagement of women with ICT in traditional poor, rural, communities of Mali, a least developed country (LDC). Mali was selected as the focus based on its broadly representative LDC challenges and the availability of locally and internationally collected data. This research applies the theoretical framework of international regime theory and development as freedom theory to help explain how ICT diffusion can be an empowerment tool for women in development. Women of Mali face low literacy rates, high birth rates, high infant and maternal mortality rates, and low incomes. This research found ICT applications facilitated positive change in health, education, politics and the economy in Mali. The relationship between international and national regimes in the process of negotiating problem solutions is particularly important to policy analysis of telecommunications and of gender equity. Policy in each of these areas permeates every sector of society. Challenges, obstacles, solutions and benefits of ICT development with gender equity in Mali can inform policymakers' understanding of ICT diffusion and its benefits to people in LDCs. This analysis was based on a literature review, a survey of existing relevant research studies, a country study and a case study of the Multipurpose Community Telecentre (MCT) model for rural ICT development. The country study includes data and reports from the UNDP, ITU, IDRC, USAID and the World Bank. It incorporates history, policy, existing research, statistical human development data over time, ethnographic data, and reports of other ICT projects in Mali. Analyzed together, these data strongly suggest positive and directional change in Mali during 1990 to 2000, a period of dynamic telecommunications and gender equity policy liberalization. The case study of the MCT in Timbuktu includes baseline communications research, on-site ethnographic research, interviews and the MCT Director's report. The Mali MCT was one of five African pilot projects initially supported by ITU, UNESCO and IDRC funds and developed with national and local community support. The MCT is a social communication center that provides ICT education and services. This research focuses on the MCT as an ICT knowledge gathering and distribution center. Influenced by international regime policies for gender equity, Mali's national machineries have implemented gender equity policy in communication access. Women participated in the design, implementation and operation of this MCT. The community open access design was found to be particularly conducive to ICT development through women's social networking. Research indicates women are keepers of indigenous knowledge systems in cultural communities. Content developed from this local knowledge base can contribute to global knowledge systems, cultural integrity and sustainability as well as to economic development. Conclusions of this study are based on findings that Malian ICT development with gender equity in the context of national and international policy engagement contributed to the positive growth in the political, educational and social sectors.

    10. Staying put but going far: Empowering online rural communities in Malaysia

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Lai, W.K. (author), Elamvazuthi, C. (author), and Aziz, N.A. (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    unknown
    Published:
    USA: Springer-Verlag Berlin
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C27182
    Journal Title:
    Human Society and the Internet, Proceedings
    Journal Title Details:
    Vol. 2105, pp. 203-219
    Notes:
    Published in 2001.