Closing the digital divide : transforming regional economies and communities with information technology / edited by Stewart Marshall, Wallace Taylor, and Xinghuo Yu.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.
Description
xviii, 222 pages ; 25 cm

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Subject(s)
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • 1. Perspectives on Urban and Rural Community Informatics: Theory and Performance, Community Informatics and Strategies for Flexible Networking / Michael Gurstein
  • 2. Strategies for Reconnecting Communities: Creative Uses of ICTs for Social and Economic Transformation / Claire Shearman
  • 3. Transformation Starts at Home: Understanding E-Readiness in a Local Community / Angela Coco and Lesley Jolly
  • 4. Community Capacity Building Through ICT Networking / David W. James and Peter Ziebell
  • 5. Community Informatics in Russia: Needing to Make a Leap / Sergei Stafeev and Sue Webb
  • 6. Challenges in the Telecenter Movement / Royal D. Colle and Raul Roman
  • 7. ICT Integration in Social and Economic Development: Kenya's Perspective / Philip Ndeta
  • 8. Information and Communication Technologies for Rural Development in Asia: Methodologies for Systems Design and Evaluation / Roger W. Harris
  • 9. Integrated Assessment as the Basis of Learner-Centered Design / Bijan B. Gillani
  • 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
  • 11. P-Expert Project: Development of a Prototype Expert System for Control and Management of Parthenium Weed in Central Queensland / Andrew Chiou, Xinghuo Yu and Ken Adsett
  • 12. Facilitating E-Commerce in the Beef Industry / Shirley Gregor and Don Menzies
  • 13. Transforming Regional Economies and Communities with ICT Developing Countries: An Indian Perspective / Anil Jaggi
  • 14. Progress Toward Establishing Community Networks in Regional Queensland / Wallace Taylor and Roderick E. Jewell.
ISBN
1567206026 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2002030743
OCLC
50422942
RCP
C - S
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