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.
Via online issues. 2 pages., Author alerts readers to a move to "put the mapping for where service is needed in the hands of Connected Nation, a company representing big telecommunications companies."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C23422
Notes:
From the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, University of Kentucky, Lexington. 2 pages., Report from a 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.
Brown, Daniel James (author) and Centre for Community Networking Research, Monash University, Australia.
Format:
Thesis
Publication Date:
2009-09-03
Published:
Canada
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C30554
Notes:
Posted at http://www.ccnr.net/pratoconf2009/pdfs/brown.pdf, Master of Arts in Communications and Technology, Faculty of Extension, University of Alberta, Canada, September 3, 2009.. Presented at the Prato CIRN Community Informatics Conference, Prato, Italy, November 4-6, 2009. 100 pages.
