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Rural Development with ICTs in Nepal: Integrating National Policy with Grassroots Resourcefulness
Author(s) -
Harris Roger,
Jacquemin Alain,
Ponthagunta Subra,
Sah Jaysingh,
Shrestha Deepak
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
the electronic journal of information systems in developing countries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.41
H-Index - 18
ISSN - 1681-4835
DOI - 10.1002/j.1681-4835.2003.tb00079.x
Subject(s) - grassroots , implementation , economic growth , information and communications technology , scale (ratio) , process (computing) , social change , political science , icts , capacity building , business , geography , engineering , computer science , economics , cartography , software engineering , politics , law , operating system
Two rural ICT telecentre projects are under way in Nepal. One small‐scale project focuses on a few communities participating in a social mobilisation programme and has the aim of deepening the socio‐economic impact of the programme. The other is a national pilot project involving around 15 communities with the aim of eventually rolling out to a nationwide implementation in hundreds of villages. As social mobilisation encompasses several aspects of communities that are thought to influence the development outcomes of rural telecentres, the two projects offer an opportunity to develop the process of social mobilisation into a methodology for preparing communities to make the most of a telecentre that will then be capable of implementing an agreed development agenda. Such a methodology, known as Infomobilisation , will help scale up telecentre implementations so that they can achieve their development objectives.