Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36258
Notes:
Retrieved at http://comunica.org/com_rights/, Pages 33-64 in Bruce Girard and Sean O. Siochru (eds.), Communicating in the information society, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, Geneva, Switzerland. 223 pages.
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."
Matambalya, Francis A.S.T. (author) and Wolf, Susanna (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2006
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C25440
Notes:
Pages 184-197 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.
Hudson, Heather E. (author) and Parker, Edwin B. (author)
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
1992
Published:
USA: Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C16748
Notes:
306 pages, Role of rural telecommunications infrastructures in economic development; recommendations for state development agencies. Prepared for the Ford Foundation and the Rural Economic Policy Program, Aspen Institute.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C25573
Notes:
Pages 13-24 in Stuart Macdonald and Gary Madden (eds.), Telecommunications and socio-economic development. Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 444 pages.
Abbott, Eric A. (author) and Niebauer, Walter E. Jr. (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2000
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C29072
Notes:
Pages 101-120 in Peter F. Korsching, Patricia C. Hipple and Eric A. Abbott (eds.), Having all the right connections: telecommunications and rural viability. Praeger, Westport, Connecticut. 348 pages.
