Information Technologies to Serve the Poor: How Rural Areas Can Benefit from the Communications Revolution
Georg Caspary, Deutsche Stiftung fur Internationale Entwicklung, DSE · Human Development Resource Network (HDRNet) · 2002
Modern information and communications technologies (ICTs) hold great promises for developing countries. However, if they are to benefit the poor their introduction must be carefully examined. This article shows several models of affordable access to ICTs which have been tried in various parts of the developing world.