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    4. 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.

    5. 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."

    6. 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.

    7. Globalization demands changes in the way rural America develops its economy

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Format:
    Article
    Publication Date:
    2005-06-12
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23425
    Notes:
    From the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, University of Kentucky, Lexington. 2 pages., Report from an economic session of "Rural America, Community Issues," a conference programmed by the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues for the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism, University of Maryland, June 12-17, 2005. Spearker suggests that journalists should help public and private policymakers at all levels realize the challenges and choices they face in helping rural America adjust to seeking jobs in a globalizing economy.