ICT Development for Social and Rural Connectedness

• Main Author: Alias, Nor Aziah (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Application software.; Management information systems.; Computer Science.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Management of Computing and Information Systems.; Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing.

ICT Development for Social and Rural Connectedness provides an introduction to the concept of 'connectedness', and explores how this socio-psychological term has evolved during the age of the Internet. The book surveys the principles of ICT for development (ICTD), and closely examines how...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Chapter 1: An overview of connectedness
• Chapter 2: ICTD and Rural Connectedness
• Chapter 3: A case of Rural Connectedness: The Malaysian Rural Internet Center (RICs) Users’ Experience
• Afterword.