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    1. Broadband adoption and usage

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Conner, Jim (author / Vice President, Agristar Global Networks, Ltd.)
    Format:
    Paper
    Publication Date:
    2005-07-19
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23550
    Notes:
    Presented at the InfoAg 2005 Conference, Springfield, Illinois USA, July 19-21, 2005. 23 pages.

    3. 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."

    7. How well are Europe's rural businesses connected to the digital economy?

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Grimes, Seamus (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2005-10
    Published:
    International
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C23613
    Journal Title:
    European Planning Studies
    Journal Title Details:
    13(7) : 1063-1081
    Notes:
    Analysis reveals considerable variation in access to reasonably priced broadband telecommunications, in awareness of how those technologies can be exploited, and in levels of skills to exploit potentials.

    10. Reaching poor farmers in rural Kenya with market information

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    United Nations - Habitat.
    Format:
    Report
    Publication Date:
    2005
    Published:
    Kenya
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23736
    Notes:
    Best practices database in improving the living environment. 2 pages., Describes a market information system and service for smallholder farmers, using low-cost information and communication technologies. During the last season, farmers who used the MIS to market their maize obtained 22% higher prices than those who did not.