Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23480
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10 pages., Examines the "growth of knowledge societies in developed countries" while "more than 850 million people in developing countries are excluded from a wide range of information and knowledge." Examines some barriers to evolution and growth of knowledge societies in developing countries.
The Indian Institute of Management and the World Bank organized a workshop titled "Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for Rural Development" to bring together case studies of various applications of ICT that can make a difference in the delivery of services or products in rural areas. The cases presented illustrate the opportunities and challenges in the diffusion of ICT within India and fother developing countries. ICT applications can be classified as those that provided decision support to public administrators for improving planning and monitoring of developmental programs, those that improved services to citizens and brought in transparency, and those that empowered citizens through access to information and knowledge. This paper presents successful examples of ICT rural development projects.
