32 pages., Via online from publisher website., "...there is an ongoing bipartisan push to expand broadband coverage into the corners of the nation where politicians and corporations alike perceive a higher demand, including many protected public lands."
Online from the New Yorker., Fibre-optic cables strung above a home in Jackson County, Kentucky, one of the poorest countries in the country. High-speed broadband has been used to bring internet-based jobs to the region.
12 pages., Article #:3FEA1, via online journal., The Journal of Extension serves as a conduit for the dissemination of current research and practices within Extension and 4-H. We conducted a review of Journal of Extension articles published since passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Our purpose was to determine what practices, programs, and studies have occurred regarding inclusion in 4-H of youths with disabilities or special health care needs. The review resulted in detailed examination of 16 articles and revealed information about Extension professionals' attitudes toward inclusion, strategies and program approaches related to inclusion, and specific areas that need to be addressed further to increase inclusion.
13 pages., via online journal., Drawing on the increasing body of literature on policy stakeholders and the ever-growing acknowledgement that communication policy is crafted by more than just parliamentarians and formal communication regulators this paper examines the role that another set of regulators plays in communication policy: agriculture regulators. Based on a study of the United States Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service (RUS), this paper explores alternative agents of communication policy. More specifically, through document analysis we examine the way in which the Rural Utilities Service has shaped rural broadband policy in the United States over the last three decades. The implications for this research are wide, as it brings another policy actor into the policy making melee, and pushes communication policy scholars to consider the role that non-traditional communication regulators play in the communication policy making process.
11 pages., Via online article, A “digital revolution” in agriculture is underway. Advanced technologies like sensors, artificial intelligence, and robotics are increasingly being promoted as a means to increase food production efficiency while minimizing resource use. In the process, agricultural digitalization raises critical social questions about the implications for diverse agricultural labourers and rural spaces as digitalization evolves. In this paper, we use literature and field data to outline some key trends being observed at the nexus of agricultural production, technology, and labour in North America, with a particular focus on the Canadian context. Using the data, we highlight three key tensions observed: rising land costs and automation; the development of a high-skill/low-skilled bifurcated labour market; and issues around the control of digital data. With these tensions in mind, we use a social justice lens to consider the potential implications of digital agricultural technologies for farm labour and rural communities, which directs our attention to racial exploitation in agricultural labour specifically. In exploring these tensions, we argue that policy and research must further examine how to shift the trajectory of digitalization in ways that support food production as well as marginalized agricultural labourers, while pointing to key areas for future research—which is lacking to date. We emphasize that the current enthusiasm for digital agriculture should not blind us to the specific ways that new technologies intensify exploitation and deepen both labour and spatial marginalization.
Delibasic, Maja (author), Pejanovic-Djurisic, Milica (author), and BIO-ICT Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro
Research Centre for ICT, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2017-01
Published:
USA: Springer New York LLC
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 163 Document Number: D08148
Sandberg, Joanne C. (author), Spears Johnson, Chaya R. (author), Nguyen, Ha T. (author), Talton, Jennifer W. (author), Quandt, Sara A. (author), Chen, Haiying (author), and Summers, Phillip (author)
Tanaji, Gaikwad Shridhar (author), Desai, Sudhir B. (author), Kolekar, A.B. (author), and Department of Technology (YCSRD), Shivaji University Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India.
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2016
Published:
India: Indian Institute of Technology; Bombay; India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: D08050
Manige, Sidramappa V. (author), Patil, Manjunath (author), Kumar, Pradeep (author), Kantharaju, V (author), Prabha, Basava (author), and KVK, Gulbarga, University of Agricultural Sciences, Raichur - 585 101, India.
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2013
Published:
India: University of Agricultural Sciences; Dharwad; India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 164 Document Number: D08228
Zhu, Bi Hua (author), Zhu, Ying Li (author), and School of Life Sciences, Jiangxi Science and Technology Normal University, Nanchang, China
School of Communication and Electronics, Jiangxi Science and Technology Normal University, Nanchang, China
Format:
conference papers
Publication Date:
2012
Published:
International: Trans Tech Publications Ltd.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 163 Document Number: D08175
Prasad, Ram (author), Sreenivasulu, M. (author), and Rao, Parisa Punna (author)
Format:
Proceedings
Publication Date:
2005-05-25
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 152 Document Number: C24594
Journal Title Details:
21
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Reviewed 9 August 2006, 10 p. Paper presented at the International Agricultural and Extension Education group's 21st annual conference May 25-31, 2005, in San Antonio, TX
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C16303
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Chapter 6 in Rafiq Dossani (ed.), Telecommunications reform in India. Quorum Books, Westport, Connecticut. 258 pages., Author describes a proposal wherein the state should build 5,000 communications centers or "work centers" and link these to the rail and fiber infrastructures. Every citizen can access a telephone, the Internet, health care and education. "People stay within the traditional semirural or rural infrastructure, within their 'circle,' rather than moving away from their families to the overcrowded cities."
Dumas, Josephine Helen Ann (author / Penn State University)
Format:
Dissertation
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 139 Document Number: C21061
Notes:
211 pages, There is an urgent need for a better understanding of the interplay of information and communication technology (ICT) and the role of women in facilitating social, political and economic development. This research examines engagement of women with ICT in traditional poor, rural, communities of Mali, a least developed country (LDC). Mali was selected as the focus based on its broadly representative LDC challenges and the availability of locally and internationally collected data. This research applies the theoretical framework of international regime theory and development as freedom theory to help explain how ICT diffusion can be an empowerment tool for women in development. Women of Mali face low literacy rates, high birth rates, high infant and maternal mortality rates, and low incomes. This research found ICT applications facilitated positive change in health, education, politics, and the economy in Mali. The relationship between international and national regimes in the process of negotiating problem solutions is particularly important to policy analysis of telecommunications and of gender equity. Policy in each of these areas permeates every sector of society. Challenges, obstacles, solutions and benefits of ICT development with gender equity in Mali can inform policymakers' understanding of ICT diffusion and its benefits to people in LDCs. This analysis was based on a literature review, a survey of existing relevant research studies, a country study and a case study of the Multipurpose Community Telecentre (MCT) model for rural ICT development. The country study includes data and reports from the UNDP, ITU, IDRC, USAID and the World Bank. It incorporates history, policy, existing research, statistical human development data over time, ethnographic data, and reports of other ICT projects in Mali. Analyzed together, these data strongly suggest positive and directional change in Mali during 1990-2000, a period of dynamic telecommunications and gender equity policy liberalization. The case study of the MCT in Timbuktu includes baseline communications research, on-site ethnographics research, interviews and the MCT Directors' report. The Mali MCT was one of five African pilot projects intially supported by ITU, UNESCO and IDRC funds and developed with national and local community support. The MCT is a social communication center that provides ICT education and services. This research focuses on the MCT as an ICT knowledge gathering and distribution center. Influenced by international regime policies for gender equity policy in communication access. Women participated in the design, implementation and operation of this MCT. The community open access design was found to be particularly conducive to ICT development through women's social networking. Research indicates women are keepers of indigenous knowledge systems in cultural communities. Content developed from this local knowledge base can contribute to global knowledge systems, cultural integrity and substainability as well as to economic development. Conclusions of this study are based on findings that Malian ICT development with gender equity in the context of national and international policy engagement contributed to the positive growth in the political, educational and social sectors.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 113 Document Number: C11181
Journal Title Details:
4 pages
Notes:
Conference: Partnerships & Participation in Telecommunications for Rural Development at the beautiful campus of the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, October 26 & 27, 1998.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 113 Document Number: C11192
Journal Title Details:
6 pages
Notes:
Conference: Partnerships & Participation in Telecommunications for Rural Development at the beautiful campus of the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, October 26 & 27, 1998.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 113 Document Number: C11191
Journal Title Details:
4 pages
Notes:
Conference: Partnerships & Participation in Telecommunications for Rural Development at the beautiful campus of the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, October 26 & 27, 1998.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 113 Document Number: C11185
Journal Title Details:
9 pages
Notes:
Conference: Partnerships & Participation in Telecommunications for Rural Development at the beautiful campus of the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, October 26 & 27, 1998.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 113 Document Number: C11190
Journal Title Details:
8 pages
Notes:
Conference: Partnerships & Participation in Telecommunications for Rural Development at the beautiful campus of the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, October 26 & 27, 1998.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 113 Document Number: C11196
Journal Title Details:
12 pages
Notes:
Conference: Partnerships & Participation in Telecommunications for Rural Development at the beautiful campus of the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, October 26 & 27, 1998.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 113 Document Number: C11193
Journal Title Details:
12 pages
Notes:
Conference: Partnerships & Participation in Telecommunications for Rural Development at the beautiful campus of the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, October 26 & 27, 1998.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C11184
Journal Title Details:
5 pages
Notes:
Posted on: <a href="http://www.devmedia.org/documents/Mosey.htm">http://www.devmedia.org/documents/Mosey.htm</a>, Conference: Partnerships & Participation in Telecommunications for Rural Development at the beautiful campus of the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, October 26 & 27, 1998.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 113 Document Number: C11182
Journal Title Details:
3 pages
Notes:
Conference: Partnerships & Participation in Telecommunications for Rural Development at the beautiful campus of the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, October 26 & 27, 1998.
Barr, David F. (author) and Lusignan, Bruce (author)
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1998-10-26
Published:
Canada
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 113 Document Number: C11186
Journal Title Details:
8 pages
Notes:
Conference: Partnerships & Participation in Telecommunications for Rural Development at the beautiful campus of the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, October 26 & 27, 1998.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 113 Document Number: C11194
Journal Title Details:
9 pages
Notes:
Conference: Partnerships & Participation in Telecommunications for Rural Development at the beautiful campus of the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, October 26 & 27, 1998.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C11199
Journal Title Details:
9 pages
Notes:
Posted on: <a href="http://www.snowden.org/conference/paperfirstnations.htm">http://www.snowden.org/conference/paperfirstnations.htm</a>, Conference: Partnerships & Participation in Telecommunications for Rural Development-- Online Pre-Conference
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 109 Document Number: C10352
Journal Title Details:
83 pages
Notes:
Supported by the North Central Regional Center for Rural Development, with additional supported from the Farm Foundation and the Rural Development Initiative Project at Iowa State University, http://www.soc.iastate.edu/rdi-tech/page7.html, Proceedings of a Workshop, Feb. 25-27, 1997, Kansas City, Missouri
City, Utah
Leistritz, F.L. (author / North Dakota State University), Johnson, B.B. (author / University of Nebraska), Allen, J.C. (author / University of Nebraska), Olsen, D. (author / University of Nebraska), and Sell, R.S. (author / North Dakota State University)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1996
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 104 Document Number: C09020
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 98 Document Number: C08050
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, In: The Information Age: what it means for extension and its constituents. Columbia, MO: Cooperative Extension Service, University of Missouri, 1994. (Proceedings of a North Central Region Extension workshop for marketing and management specialists, May 24-26, 1994, St. Louis, MO.) p. 151-181.
Moore, G.A.B. (author), Waldron, Mark W. (author), and Department of Rural Extension Studies, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada; Department of Rural Extension Studies, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1994
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C07368
Notes:
See C07353 for original, In: Donald J. Blackburn (ed.) Extension Handbook: Processes and Practices, 2nd edition, 1994. Toronto, Canada: Thompson Educational Publishing, Inc. p. 159-170
Hays, Robert G. (author / Office of Agricultural Communications and Education, University of Illinois, Urbana, 61801)
Format:
Bibliography
Publication Date:
1993-07
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 94 Document Number: C07287
Notes:
compiled from ACDC documents, Urbana, IL: Office of Agricultural Communications and Education, College of Agriculture, University of Illinois, 1993. (Agricultural Communications Research Report 31) 44 p.
Coleman, S. (author), Cotton, Dan (author), and Vernon, E. (author)
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1993-05
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 93 Document Number: C07001
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection; Resource used in a session, Distance Education via Interactive Audio Graphics : a pilot project, Mimeographed, 1993. 6 p. (Paper presented at the 1993 International Agricultural Communicators in Education conference; 1993 May 8-12; Miami, FL), A status report on a special project testing the capabilities and practicality of interactive audio graphics teleconferencing in the Illinois CES environment. (original)
Taricani, Ellen (author / Training and Support Specialist, Penn State Computer Services, College of Agricultural Sciences, Pennsylvania State University)
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1993-05
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 93 Document Number: C07008
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, Mimeographed, 1993. 11 p. (Paper presented at the 1993 International Agricultural Communicators in Education conference; 1993 May 8-12; Miami, FL)
Auburn, Jill S. (author), MacLean, Jayne T. (author), and Auburn: Information Systems Manager, Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program, University of California, Davis, CA; MacLean: Coordinator, Alternative Farming Systems Information Center, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1993
Published:
USA: Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 96 Document Number: C07612
Martin, Kenneth E. (author / Rural Economic Development Specialist, Office of the Associate Vice-President for Research and Technology Transfer, Penn State University, State College, PA)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1993
Published:
USA: Center for the Study of Rural Librarianship, Clarion University of Pennsylvania, Clarion, PA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 96 Document Number: C07772
James F. Evans Collection; presented at the US Agricultural Information Network Conference, "Electronic Information in the Agricultural Sciences:, October 14-16, 1991, Minneapolis, MN
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 97 Document Number: C07822
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Agency for International Development, 1993. 64 p. (A.I.D. publication identification number PN-ABN-992).
search through journal, The article discusses the convergence of two potentially positive trends that may help to reduce poverty and environmental deterioration in Central America - the creation of networks by grassroots and environmental organizations, and the spread of information and communications technology. The article is based on research in six highly endangered, protected areas in Central America. it discusses emerging trends in "connectedness" at local, national, regional, and international levels. Looking to the future, it concludes that "informational empowerment" can be a practical strategy for reducing poverty and environmental degradation.
search through journal, Governments' agencies are the dominant information technology (IT) users in Africa. As in the developed countries, the returns of the use of IT are mixed. Analysis of 76 World Bank projects in Africa shows that government and aid agencies alike need to make more intensive efforts in the design of projects with IT components, taking into account clients' limited absorptive capacity. Specific examples of IT use show the core constraining factors to lie in limited human and organizational capabilities (original)
AGRICOLA IND 92047820; presented at IAALD Symposium on "Advances in Information Technology", September, 1991, Beltsville, MD, Much research literature in the sciences, and particularly in agriculture related sciences, originates from private and government research stations, is published in the form of technical reports or technical papers, and often does not appear in readily available published literature. The requirement for prompt delivery of these materials to researchers, combined with the evolving sophistication of researchers in the application of computers to research problems and the increasing demands to integrate library support into scientists; research functions, provides strong incentive to explore computer based alternatives for delivery of those documents that overcome the drawbacks of existing technical and procedural mechanisms, such as facsimile and postal delivery of photocopies. Fourteen institutions are taking part in this research and demonstration project which electronically transmits document images to remote sites using the national Internet telecommunications systems. (original)
AGRICOLA IND 92047823; presented at IAALD Symposium on "Advances in Information Technology", September, 1991, Beltsville, MD, PENpages is a full-text information service that demonstrates the power of sharing information through the Internet. PENpages contains agriculture and consumer-oriented information for use by field-based extension professionals and public clientele. The system is the home of three national databases including MAPP-The Family and Economic Well-Being National Database, PER-Poultry Extension Resources, and Senior Series, a gerontology database. PENpages was instrumental in the dissemination of information relating to family issues during the was in the Persian Gulf. (original)
Schmandt, Jurgen (author), Strover, Sharon, eds. (author), Williams, Frederick (author), Wilson, Robert H. (author), and University of Texas at Austin
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
1991
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 88 Document Number: C06047
Notes:
A joint project of the Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs and the Center for Research on Communication, Technology, and Society (College of Communication); Evans; Contains Table of Contents, Preface, Introduction, and Conclusion only; AGRICOLA CAT 92967766, New York : Praeger, 1991. 240 p.
