- Title
- A qualitative analysis to determine the readiness of rural communities to adopt ICTs: A Siyakhula Living Lab Case Study
- Creator
- Gumbo, Sibukelo
- Creator
- Jere, Norbert
- Creator
- Terzoli, Alfredo
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date Issued
- 2012
- Date
- 2012
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/431396
- Identifier
- vital:72771
- Description
- Rural schools have a pressing need for ICT and Internet services, for them-selves and the surrounding communities. Educators can play a crucial role of fulfilling this need. But how ready are schools, educators and communi-ties to engage with ICT and use it for their empowerment? This paper re-ports the findings of an e-readiness assessment and promotion drive by re-searchers from the Siyakhula Living Lab in parts of the Mbashe Municipali-ty, in South Africa. The Siyakhula Living Lab is a multi-disciplinary, multi-year initiative to foster grassroots innovation in marginalized communities with the aim of improving their lives and economies. The drive was con-ducted to support the expansion of the network of Digital Access Nodes, ie ICT points-of-presence of the Living Lab in the community: this network rep-resents the structural backbone on which all other activities rest. The as-sessment shows that, while the practical difficulties are many, the communi-ties are very eager to engage with ICT and understand fairly well the con-nection between ICT availability and the possibility of improvement in their life conditions.
- Format
- 6 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Proceedings of the IST-Africa
- Relation
- Gumbo, S., Jere, N. and Terzoli, A., 2012. A qualitative analysis to determine the readiness of rural communities to adopt ICTs: A Siyakhula Living Lab Case Study. Proceedings of the IST-Africa
- Relation
- Proceedings of the IST-Africa volume 2012 number 1 1 8 2012 Conference
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- Publisher
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the IST Africa Conference Statement (http://www.ist-africa.org/home/default.asp?page=istafrica)
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Terzoli, Alfredo (Prof)
RU Department of Computer Science
SDG 10. Reduced Inequalities
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