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Botswana Technology Centre started a pilot project named Community User information Systems whose main aim is to develop computer communication systems (telecentres) that would enable communities in rural Botswana to have access to integrated email and online information. The centres have been in operation since 2004. An impact assessment survey was carried out in 2009 to find out how much the centres...
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has made it possible to explore novel and innovative mechanisms to leap-frog socio-economic development in rural and marginalized communities. An ICT for development intervention called Siyakhula Living Lab (SLL) has been underway in Dwesa, a rural community in the Eastern Cape Province, for the past four years. The living lab methodology, which enables...
IT is viewed as a tool that provides extended opportunities for developing countries in poverty reduction, education and health care improvement and thus, assists in a more dynamic economic and social development. There has been a large wave of investment over the past decade in ICT for development (ICT4D) in African countries, and particularly, in creation of ICT or telecenters in rural areas. While...
There is evidence that Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have transformed the lives of rural communities who have access to ICT resources. The rural communities' experience and knowledge of agriculture is often underestimated. The various approaches for participation and sharing of knowledge to develop ICTs by acknowledging farmers, will lead to socio-economic development and empowerment...
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