Empowering Marginal Communities with Information Networking

By: Hakikur Rahman

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Hardcover | 30 November 2005

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Empowering Marginal Communities with Information Networking provides valuable insights into the successes and challenges faced by development project implementers around the world. It includes methodologies, technological constraints, implementation challenges, and sustainability issues of different projects, focusing on the empowerment of marginal communities. ""Empowering Marginal Communities with Information Networking"" supports rural technology and information systems in order to strengthen grass-roots institutions by blending indigenous knowledge and modern technology. This book includes success stories, drawbacks, and facts and figures in the social transformation processes of globalization.

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Non-Fiction Sociology & Anthropology Sociology Economics Development Economics & Emerging Economies Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Interdisciplinary Studies Development Studies Computing & I.T.Information Technology General Issue Science Science in General

Impact of Science & Technology on Society Computer Science Graphical & Digital Media Applications Computer Networking & Communications

Diversity challenges in online learning	p. 1
Empowerment of marginal communities through information-driven learning	p. 16
ICTs, empowerment, and development : articulating grassroots analysis through participatory approaches	p. 44
Affecting change from the grassroots : making a difference without power, prestige or money	p. 62
Social structures for access, use, and development	p. 95
Enacting and interpreting technology - from usage to well-being : experiences of indigenous peoples with ICTs	p. 124
Community-based information technology interventions for persons with mental illness	p. 191
Connecting the first mile : a best practice framework for ICT-based knowledge sharing initiatives	p. 227
The Internet as a fundraising tool for marginal communities in South Africa	p. 258
Building virtual communities through a de-marginalized view of knowledge networking	p. 278
Sustaining Internet accessibility	p. 300
Capacity development initiatives for marginal communities : a few case studies	p. 318
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