DocumentCode
3414993
Title
Examining e-literacy using telecenters as public spending: The case of Akshaya
Author
Pal, Joyojeet
Author_Institution
Dept. of City & Regional Planning, Univ. of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
fYear
2007
fDate
15-16 Dec. 2007
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
9
Abstract
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 of neighbouring Kozhikode, this work investigates the extent of e-literacy and discusses the performance of service delivery using telecenters.
Keywords
computer based training; computer literacy; Akshaya project; computer literacy; e-literacy; public spending; telecenter; Business; Cities and towns; Costs; Councils; Crops; Government; Human factors; Internet telephony; Legged locomotion; Technology social factors; Developing nations; Human factors; Rural areas; Technology social factors;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Information and Communication Technologies and Development, 2007. ICTD 2007. International Conference on
Conference_Location
Bangalore
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-1990-6
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-4244-1991-3
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICTD.2007.4937392
Filename
4937392
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