• DocumentCode
    3388950
  • Title

    Social Entrepreneurship as Critical Agency: A study of Rural Internet kiosks

  • Author

    Rangaswamy, Nimmi

  • Author_Institution
    Microsoft Res. Labs.
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    38838
  • Firstpage
    143
  • Lastpage
    152
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • 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
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICTD.2006.301851
  • Filename
    4085526