Knowledge management in estonian regional administration: background, outputs, and unused resources
Information Technology for Development
E-governance services through telecenters: The role of human intermediary and issues of trust
Information Technologies and International Development
ICT intervention in the `Chandanbari' Village of Bangladesh: Results from a field study
Information Systems Frontiers
After access: challenges facing mobile-only internet users in the developing world
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Proceedings of the South African Institute for Computer Scientists and Information Technologists Conference
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This paper discusses why concerns about the importance of content provision for ICT community development projects, such as tele-centers, must go beyond international initiatives such as the World Bank Development Gateway. The authors emphasize the importance of grassroots research, such as community needs assessments, for the generation of contextually appropriate content through ICT, including the role that local universities may play as facilitators in the identification and processing of this content. After providing a brief case study of a tele-center research project in India, the paper concludes that awareness raising about the value of information and the integration of information services within the local communication structures constitute a basic foundation for locally relevant content generation and use.