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    1. "Reconnecting" the unemployed: information and communication technology and services for jobseekers in rural areas

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    McQuaid, Ronald W. (author), Lindsay, Colin (author), and Greig, Malcolm (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2004
    Published:
    UK
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C23242
    Journal Title:
    Information Communication and Society
    Journal Title Details:
    7(3) : 364-388
    Notes:
    Authors identify challenges and potentials for using new information technologies, such as the Internet, to help jobseekers in rural labour markets find employment. Social networks and telephone helplines were found to be used most at present.

    2. Can ICT (information and communication technologies) in small and medium-sized enterprises overcome remoteness?

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Greller, Wolfgang (author) and Mackay, Mary (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2002
    Published:
    Scotland
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 189 Document Number: D01881
    Journal Title:
    Rural Society Journal
    Journal Title Details:
    12(3) : 246-262

    6. Do information communication technologies promote rural economic development?

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Pigg, Kenneth E. (author) and Crank, Laura D. (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2005
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C23998
    Journal Title:
    Journal of the Community Development Society
    Journal Title Details:
    36(1) : 65
    Notes:
    12 p.

    7. Do information communication technologies promote rural economic development?

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Pigg, Kenneth E. (author) and Crank, Laura D. (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2005
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24340
    Journal Title:
    Journal of the Community Development Society
    Journal Title Details:
    36(1) : 65-76
    Notes:
    Examines five cases of rural areas that deployed information and communication technology programs. "There is little evidence that telecommunications lead to economic growth or that businesses in the communities are using ICT extensively." Instead, "the physical deployment of the hardware is not sufficient to achieve success."

    8. Electronic commerce and World Wide Web apprehensiveness: an examination of consumers' perceptions of the World Wide Web

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Susskind, Alex M. (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2004-04
    Published:
    Nepal
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 165 Document Number: C27510
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
    Journal Title Details:
    9(3)
    Notes:
    Via UI electronic subscription. 26 pages.

    9. From wheat to Web: children of the revolution

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Fairless, Daemon (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2007-10-25
    Published:
    India
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28343
    Journal Title:
    Nature
    Journal Title Details:
    449(7165) : 964-966
    Notes:
    Focuses on efforts of Monkumbu Sambasivan Swaminathan to bring information and communications technologies to villages in India.