Title :
Examining e-literacy using telecenters as public spending: The case of Akshaya
Author_Institution :
Dept. of City & Regional Planning, Univ. of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/ICTD.2007.4937392
