ICT Development for Social and Rural Connectedness

• Main Author: Alias, Nor Aziah. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Information systems.; Information Systems.; Computer Science.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Management of Computing and Information Systems.; Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6901-8

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.