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Background Zimbabwe experienced a socio-economic crisis from 1997 to 2008 which heavily impacted all sectors. In this context, human resource managers were confronted with the challenge of health worker shortage in rural areas and, at the same time, had to operate under a highly centralised, government-centred system which defined health worker deployment policies. This study examines the implementation...
GraphoGame Teacher Training Service is a mobile-based solution for providing teachers with scientifically validated pedagogical training in literacy instruction. In many African countries teachers currently have insufficient knowledge to teach literacy in local languages and learning materials are scarce, especially for children with learning difficulties. As part of the GraphoWorld network, CAPOLSA/University...
China is a populous country with rich labor resources. It will gain sustainable momentum in future competition if the human resources can be transformed into human capital, especially investments in human capital in the vast rural areas. Through investment in education, the advantages of resource can be converted into competition. This article, through economic methods, analyzes investment in education...
Public information service is a kind of public service, in its providing process there being inequity between urban and rural, among regions, and among social groups. And the inequity is a barrier to building harmonious society. The inequity enables the public to divide into the information-rich group and the information-poor group when they access and use public information service. This paper puts...
In order to promote the development of agricultural modernization, the evaluation of the rural informatization is very significant. By the study of the domestic rural informatization evaluation methods, a new evaluating index system, including 18 indicators, is constructed for Jiangsu province. On the basis of SOM neural network model, which is able to simulate the self-organizing learning without...
This paper demonstrates the effectiveness of Linear Support Vector Machines (SVM) when applied to non-sparse datasets with a large number of instances. Two linear SVM algorithms are compared. The coordinate descent method (LibLinear) trains a linear SVM with the L2-loss function versus the cutting-plane algorithm (SVMperf), which uses a L1-loss function. Four Geographical Information System (GIS)...
Information Technology is becoming fundamental to the operation of business and government. Growth in jobs related to IT is expected to outpace traditional industries. In a globalizing economy, Computer and Information Technology are being perceived as a new engine of economic and industrial growth. Cities and Metros are growing at an unprecedented pace with the use of IT. India is a country of villages...
In the new rural construction, to enhance the work of the continuing education of teachers in the rural areas is the key of promoting rural education reform and process. It is also the prerequisites of enhancing the quality of rural education. With the implementation of the modern distance education in the rural primary and secondary schools (referred as rural distance education), the work of continuing...
Digital green is a research project that seeks to disseminate targeted agricultural information to small and marginal farmers in India using digital video. The unique components of digital green are (1) a participatory process for content production, (2) a locally generated digital video database, (3) human-mediated instruction for dissemination and training, and (4) regimented sequencing to initiate...
The Akshaya project from Kerala has been a much discussed case for the community of practitioners and scholars working on technology and development. A unique feature of the project is its state-wide e-literacy goal in which one member of every household was trained in the telecenters set up under Akshaya. Using a survey of 1750 households in the experimental area of Malappuram and a comparison group...
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