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Providing Low-cost Information Technology Access to Rural Communities in Developing Countries What Works? What Pays?
- Title
- Providing Low-cost Information Technology Access to Rural Communities in Developing Countries [electronic resource]: What Works? What Pays? / Georg Caspary and David O'Connor
- Author
- Caspary, Georg.
- Publication
- Paris : OECD Publishing, 2003.
Available Online
Details
- Additional Authors
- O'Connor, David.
- Description
- 48 p.; 21 x 29.7cm.
- Summary
- Rural areas of the developing world are the last frontier of the information technology revolution. Telephone and internet penetration there remains a small fraction of what it is in the developed world. Limited means of electronic communication with the outside world are just one source of isolation of rural communities and economies from the forces of national and global integration, albeit an important one. Without roads and electricity, the benefits of extending ICT access would be greatly diminished. Conversely, where these other elements of infrastructure are in place, those benefits can be multiplied. The costs of ICT provision to rural areas tend to be higher than to more densely populated urban areas, and the ability to pay of potential subscribers lower. In recent years, a number of interesting experiments has been initiated to extend low-cost telephone and, in some cases, internet access to low-income rural communities. This paper reviews some of these, with a particular ...
- Series Statement
- OECD Development Centre Working Papers, 1815-1949 ; no.229
- Uniform Title
- OECD Development Centre Working Papers, no.229.
- Subject
- Development
- LCCN
- 10.1787/675385036304
- OCLC
- oecd-lib
- Author
- Caspary, Georg.
- Title
- Providing Low-cost Information Technology Access to Rural Communities in Developing Countries [electronic resource]: What Works? What Pays? / Georg Caspary and David O'Connor
- Imprint
- Paris : OECD Publishing, 2003.
- Series
- OECD Development Centre Working Papers, 1815-1949 ; no.229OECD Development Centre Working Papers, 1815-1949 ; no.229.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
- Development
- Added Author
- O'Connor, David.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 10.1787/675385036304 doi