Title :
Social Entrepreneurship as Critical Agency: A study of Rural Internet kiosks
Author :
Rangaswamy, Nimmi
Author_Institution :
Microsoft Res. Labs.
Abstract :
My paper looks at rural Internet kiosks as small businesses run by owners/operators who display good entrepreneurial spirit and skills that match kiosk offerings to local needs, creating opportunities in constrained commercial environments. Kiosk operators display enough imagination to keep businesses afloat recasting information technologies to accommodate the growing demand for image/visual consumption. We argue for considering the rural Internet kiosk not simply as an information booth but as entrepreneurial space to tap several commercial possibilities
Keywords :
Internet; commerce; ethnography; information booth; information technologies; rural Internet kiosks; social entrepreneurship; Biological system modeling; Business; Communications technology; Digital photography; Displays; Environmental economics; Information technology; Innovation management; Internet; Space technology; Entrepreneurship; Ethnography; ICT; Rural internet kiosks;
Conference_Titel :
Information and Communication Technologies and Development, 2006. ICTD '06. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Berkeley, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0485-1
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0485-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICTD.2006.301851