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Connecting people for development : why public access ICTs matter

Sey, Araba; Coward, Chris; Bar, François; Sciadas, George; Rothschild, Chris; Koepke, Lucas (Technology and Social Change Group, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, US, 2013)

Libraries, telecenters, and cybercafés play a critical role in extending the benefits of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to a diverse range of people worldwide. However, their ability to contribute to ...
Public access, private mobile : the interplay of shared access and the mobile Internet for teenagers in Cape Town

Walton, Marion; Donner, Jonathan (University of Cape Town, 2012-10)

The study assesses and describes the interplay between public PC-based Internet access and private mobile-based access for urban teenaged public access venue (PAV) users in Cape Town. South Africa is a particularly ...
Connecting in real space : how people share knowledge and technologies in cybercafés

Best, Michael L. (Sam Nunn School of International Affairs & School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, US, 2010)

We examine how the internet brings people together not virtually over digital networks but physically while co-located in public spaces. In particular we are interested in how people in cybercafés share and collaborate ...
Debates teóricos entorno al vínculo de los jóvenes con las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (TIC)

Aguerre, Carolina; Benítez Larghi, Sebastián; Calamari, Marina; Fontecoba, Ariel; Gaztañaga, Miguel; Moguillansky, Marina; Orchuela, Jimena; Ponce de León, Jimena (2009)
Public access to ICTs : sculpting the profile of users; working paper

Sciadas, George; Lyons, Hil; Rothschild, Chris; Sey, Araba (Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA), University of Washington Information School, Seattle, WA, US, 2012)
Implicancias del uso de las tecnologías de la información y comunicación en municipios rurales : un estudio de caso en Ayacucho, Perú

Kanashiro, Laura León (Instituto de Estudios Peruanos (IEP), Lima, PE, 2010)
Public access to ICT and employment : case of the impact of public access to ICT skills on job prospects in Rwanda

Damascène, M. Jean; Theodomir, M. (2010)

The modern Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is widely seen by countries as a major drive for their socio-economic development. This is demonstrated by huge investments put in ICT projects. Despite such ...
Internet centers/usage by Burmese ethnic migrants in Mae Sod : traversing the borders of Internet divide and recasting ethnic identities

Dacanay, Nikos (2010)

This paper, taken from an on-going research on the use of Internet centers by marginalized women in the Thai- Burma border, reflects upon the various means of appropriation of the technology. The Internet has ostensibly ...
Understanding cybercafés users behavior in Mainland China : an exploratory study

Wei Shang; Guoxin Li; Oluwasefunmi Arogundade; Xuemei Jiang (2010)

As a major venue of public access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), cybercafés in China have been contributing to the increase of ICT penetration, especially Internet penetration for the last decades. ...
ICTs and its social meanings : women in the margins of Thailand (December 2010)

Unknown author (2010)

This paper seeks to surface the social implications of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) for marginalized women in Thailand-Burma border as brought about by globalization and technological change. Many of ...

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