Spreading the news: the use of ICT to raise rural living standards
SOURCE: HSRC Review
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2013
TITLE AUTHOR(S): K.Ramoroka, P.Jacobs
KEYWORDS: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY, POVERTY, RURAL COMMUNITIES, SOCIO-ECONOMIC PROFILE
Web link: http://www.hsrc.ac.za/en/review/hsrc-review-may-2013/spreading-the-news-the-use-of-ict-to-raise-rural-living-standards
Intranet: HSRC Library: shelf number 7810
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/2896
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/2896
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2013
TITLE AUTHOR(S): K.Ramoroka, P.Jacobs
KEYWORDS: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY, POVERTY, RURAL COMMUNITIES, SOCIO-ECONOMIC PROFILE
Web link: http://www.hsrc.ac.za/en/review/hsrc-review-may-2013/spreading-the-news-the-use-of-ict-to-raise-rural-living-standards
Intranet: HSRC Library: shelf number 7810
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/2896
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/2896
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Abstract
Twenty-first century technologies are rapidly spreading into rural Africa, Asia and Latin America. What prospects for broad-based socioeconomic and human development do these innovations open up in rural communities with poor socioeconomic prospects? Kgabo Ramoroka and Peter Jacobs look at how local communities benefit from the spread of state-of-the art information and communication technologies (ICT).-
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