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Affordability issues surrounding the use of ICT for development and poverty reduction

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Affordability issues surrounding the use of ICT for development and poverty reduction/ Sam Takavarasha Jr. and Carl Adams, editors.
other author:	Takavarasha, Sam,
Published:	Hershey, Pennsylvania :IGI Global, : [2018],
Description:	1 online resource (xlix, 319 p.)
Subject:	Digital divide - Developing countries. -
Online resource:	http://services.igi-global.com/resolvedoi/resolve.aspx?doi=10.4018/978-1-5225-3179-1
ISBN:	9781522531807 (ebook)

Affordability issues surrounding the use of ICT for development and poverty reduction
Affordability issues surrounding the use of ICT for development and poverty reduction[electronic resource] /Sam Takavarasha Jr. and Carl Adams, editors. - Hershey, Pennsylvania :IGI Global,[2018] - 1 online resource (xlix, 319 p.)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Section 1. Key methods of fostering affordable access. Chapter 1. Community networks for addressing affordability of ICT access in African rural areas: a case study of Zenzeleni, Makhosi ; Chapter 2. "Everyone will be connected": free basics in Africa to support ICT4D ; Chapter 3. Exploring the possibility of using TV white spaces in Africa ; Chapter 4. Fostering affordability of ICT access in Developing Countries through infrastructure sharing: the devil is in the detail ; Chapter 5. Affordable access to internet and ICT: a solution via telecentres -- Section 2. Applications and case examples. Chapter 6. A model for economic development with telecentres and the social media: overcoming affordability constraints ; Chapter 7. Missed call or an opportunity: understanding mobile phone literacy among street vendors in Chennai ; Chapter 8. Key challenges for sustainable e-services in unstable societies: the case of Syrians ; Chapter 9. Scaling mobile technologies to maximize reach and impact: partnering with mobile network operators and governments ; Chapter 10. ICT affordability and coping with disaster: coping with disaster.

Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.

"This book explores affordability of ICT access in the context of the rapidly growing field of ICT for development. It provides information on selective access to basic web based content, zero-rating and net-neutrality through the affordability lens. It explores how to make ICTs (data and Internet, social networking, mobile voice, Internet) affordable to communities in developing countries"--

ISBN: 9781522531807 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

1155665
Digital divide
--Developing countries.

LC Class. No.: HN981.I56 / A44 2018e

Dewey Class. No.: 303.48/33091724

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