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Empowering information and communication technologies in isolated areas: learning from the solar-net villages program in honduras |
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 Dominique M. Lallementa, Ernesto N. Terradob, Yabei Zhang.
To reduce poverty caused by inequality of opportunities in isolated areas, many developing countries are now taking advantage of recent technical advances in information and communication technologies (ICTs) to enable the remote populations to enjoy the benefits of improved commerce, education, health, and other social services. This paper describes lessons learned from the Solar-Net
Villages Program (or Aldeas Solares) of Honduras with respect to its early attempts to find technological solutions for providing ICT services to isolated areas and the government’s ongoing efforts to balance the objective of assisting the most disadvantaged populations with the need to have sustainable services.
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Applications of Community informatics for building community and enhancing civic society |
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 Kenneth E. Pigg, University of Missouri, USA.
Community informatics provides new ways of approaching old problems of community development and enhancing civic society. Building on a theoretical analysis, this article discusses research in the area of the efforts of community networks in the USA to achieve outcomes in these two areas using the tools of community telecommunications and networking. The analysis matches the theoretical arguments for how community building and civic society are achieved against the practice of community networks trying to implement the new communications technologies. The analysis shows that achieving these goals is dif�cult for community information networks and that a full understanding of the nature of community information infrastructures could likely be very helpful in this task.
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E-Governance and Civic Engagement: Factors and Determinants of E-Democracy |
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 A book edited by Dr. Aroon Manoharan (Kent State University) and Dr. Marc Holzer (Rutgers University).
The proposed publication will focus on how governments across the world engage their citizens online and the resulting impact on citizens. The book will consist of chapters from academicians and practitioners on online civic engagement that specifically examine how e-governance facilitates ˆ online public reporting by governments to their citizens, online citizen participation in decision-making and citizen satisfaction with e-governance. The book will focus on issues and challenges involving adoption and implementation of online civic engagement initiatives globally, and will help guide governments in their transformation to e-governance. |
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Tecnologias da Informaçáo e sociedade: o panorama brasileiro |
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 Este documento tem por objetivo apresentar o panorama da infoinclusão no Brasil e os cenários prospectivos do País em relação à disseminação do uso social das Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação.
A base deste texto foi utilizada como subsídio para a exposição apresentada pela delegação brasileira durante a Terceira Assembléia Geral da Associação Internacional de Parlamentares para a Tecnologia da Informação — a III IPAIT, ocorrida em Brasília, de 06 a 08 de junho de 2005, cujo eixo principal fundou-se no tema “As Tecnologias da Informação a Serviço da Inclusão Social”. |
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