TY - GEN
T1 - Rural livelihoods and income enhancement in the "new" economy
AU - Rao, Alakananda
AU - Dasgupta, Partha
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Technology alone, however innovative or even "cheap" is not the solution to poverty, illiteracy, infrastructural inadequacies and the myriads of ills of those below the poverty line in the third world. The ability to utilize technological advances to meet developmental goals is critical This paper brings an in-depth case study that illustrates the success of a program for poverty reduction that judiciously integrated some basic computing and communication facilities with education, training, entrepreneurship and lifelong goals to bring higher levels of prosperity to villages of one of the poorest segments of the world.
AB - Technology alone, however innovative or even "cheap" is not the solution to poverty, illiteracy, infrastructural inadequacies and the myriads of ills of those below the poverty line in the third world. The ability to utilize technological advances to meet developmental goals is critical This paper brings an in-depth case study that illustrates the success of a program for poverty reduction that judiciously integrated some basic computing and communication facilities with education, training, entrepreneurship and lifelong goals to bring higher levels of prosperity to villages of one of the poorest segments of the world.
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U2 - 10.1145/1836001.1836002
DO - 10.1145/1836001.1836002
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77956031435
SN - 9781450301930
T3 - Proceedings of the 4th ACM Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions, NSDR '10
BT - Proceedings of the 4th ACM Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions, NSDR '10
T2 - 4th ACM Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions, NSDR'10
Y2 - 15 June 2010 through 15 June 2010
ER -