Bridging the digital divide: understanding information access practices in an indian village community

Authors:
Mounia Lalmas;Ramnath Bhat;Maxine Frank;David Frohlich;Matt Jones
Affiliations:
Queen Mary: University of London, London, United Kingdom;Namma Dhwani, Budikote, India;VOICES, Budikote, India;University of Surrey, Guilford, United Kingdom;Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom
Venue:
SIGIR '07 Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Year:
2007

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Abstract

For digital library and information retrieval technologies to provide solutions for bridging the digital divide in developing countries, we need to understand the information access practices of remote and often poor communities in these countries. We must understand the information needs of these communities, and the best means to provide them access to relevant information. To this end, we investigated the current information access practices in an Indian village.