Notice of RetractionPeople attitude towards telecenter utilization in Roi Et Province of Thailand

Notice of Retraction

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We hereby retract the content of this paper. Reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper.

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The purpose of this research was to explain demographic characteristics, communication methods, telecenter accessibility, and people attitude towards telecenter utilization, and; to compare people attitude towards telecenter utilization by demographic characteristics, communication methods, and telecenter accessibility. A Random sample of 377 users from the population of 13,730 telecenter users of Wat Saket and Wat Potikaram, Roi Et Province of Thailand was used. The chief research instrument was questionnaire. Descriptive statistics, t-test and ANOVA including LSD were used to analyze the collected data. Results showed no gender disparity, users were young and educated. Main source of telecenter information was community radio and purpose of telecenter use was for information. Hypotheses testing found people with different demographic characteristics had no significant difference in attitude towards telecenter utilization, people encouraged by different communication methods had no significant difference in attitude towards telecenter utilization, and people with different items of telecenter accessibility, i.e. frequency of access/week, duration of access/week, had no significant difference in attitude towards telecenter utilization. However, people with different items of telecenter accessibility i.e. purpose of access, distance travelled and access to computer at home had significant difference in attitude towards telecenter utilization.