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Closing the digital divide : transforming regional economies and communities with information technology / edited by Stewart Marshall, Wallace Taylor, and Xinghuo Yu.
Lippincott Library HC79.I55 C586 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Information technology--Economic aspects.
- Information technology.
- Digital divide.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 222 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.
- Contents:
- 1. Perspectives on Urban and Rural Community Informatics: Theory and Performance, Community Informatics and Strategies for Flexible Networking / Michael Gurstein 1
- 2. Strategies for Reconnecting Communities: Creative Uses of ICTs for Social and Economic Transformation / Claire Shearman 13
- 3. Transformation Starts at Home: Understanding E-Readiness in a Local Community / Angela Coco, Lesley Jolly 27
- 4. Community Capacity Building Through ICT Networking / David W. James, Peter Ziebell 45
- 5. Community Informatics in Russia: Needing to Make a Leap / Sergei Stafeev, Sue Webb 63
- 6. Challenges in the Telecenter Movement / Royal D. Colle, Raul Roman 75
- 7. ICT Integration in Social and Economic Development: Kenya's Perspective / Philip Ndeta 93
- 8. Information and Communication Technologies for Rural Development in Asia: Methodologies for Systems Design and Evaluation / Roger W. Harris 101
- 9. Integrated Assessment as the Basis of Learner-Centered Design / Bijan B. Gillani 121
- 10. E-Health for Regional, Rural, and Remote Area Health Care Consumers and Providers as Members of a Health Information Society / Evelyn J. S. Hovenga 137
- 11. P-Expert Project: Development of a Prototype Expert System for Control and Management of Parthenium Weed in Central Queensland / Andrew Chiou, Xinghuo Yu, Ken Adsett 153
- 12. Facilitating E-Commerce in the Beef Industry / Shirley Gregor, Don Menzies 167
- 13. Transforming Regional Economies and Communities with ICT Developing Countries: An Indian Perspective / Anil Jaggi 181
- 14. Progress Toward Establishing Community Networks in Regional Queensland / Wallace Taylor, Roderick E. Jewell 195.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1567206026
- OCLC:
- 50422942
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