Making Knowledge Work for the Rural Poor
(2005) Making Knowledge Work for the Rural Poor. Delivered at Berlin 3 Open Access : Progress in Implementing the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities, University of Southampton (UK). Presentation.
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Abstract
There is a need for developing a master plan coupled with a business plan for extending the benefits of ICT to all the 600,000+ villages in India by 2007. A National Alliance for ICT for Poverty Eradication may be established for launching the Every Village a Knowledge Centre movement.
A beyond-tsunami agenda and action is also illustrated.
Organizational considerations: social mobilization and need / demand assessment; community participation; connectivity; content; hub and spokes model; management, monitoring and evaluation; services (multipurpose centre); partnership; capacity building; sustainability.
The conclusions regard: managing technology and connectivity; managing content creation, gathering, validation and dissemination; managing delivery of content on time; managing for improving the well-being of the whole community; going beyond ICT, content and knowledge center giving a human touch to the whole programme.
| Keywords: | Open access information in India, digital divide, Indian knowledge villages, knowledge centers, ICT, Information and Communication Technologies |
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| Subjects: | B. Information use and sociology of information. > BA. Use and impact of information. L. Information technology and library technology. > LA. Telecommunications. B. Information use and sociology of information. > BG. Information dissemination and diffusion. |
| ID Code: | 3582 |
| Deposited By: | Italian Staff, E-LIS |
| Deposited On: | 09 April 2005 |
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