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Telecentres in Mountain Regions-A Peruvian Case Study of the Impact of Information and Communication Technologies on Remoteness and Exclusion

查看全文 作　　者：Richard [1]Heeks;Laura León [1]Kanashiro 高影响力作者 机构地区：[1]Centre for Development Informatics,Arthur Lewis Building,University of Manchester高影响力机构 出　　处：《Journal of Mountain Science》索引2009年第6卷第4期,共11页高影响力期刊 基　　金：a grant from the International Development Research Centre, Canada, and Microsoft Corporation;support of the Seminario Permanente de Investigacion Agraria (Permanent Seminar on Agricultural Research), SEPIA 摘　　要：Communities in developing country mountain areas,in part due to their remoteness,find themselves excluded from social,political and economic systems; and excluded from access to resources. This paper aims to study the impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on remoteness and exclusion. It utilises two models - the resource movement framework,and the 'information chain' - to analyse a telecentre in one district of mountainous Huancavelica,Peru's poorest region,set in the high Andes. It finds ICTs enabling new and positive resource flows for the two key user groups:teenaged school students and young farmers. These help to maintain social networks. They also support information searches that have improved agricultural practice where other information chain resources have been available. But non-use and ineffective use of the telecentre are found where information chain resources are lacking. ICTs have some impacts on intangible elements of remoteness. In this particular example,they also offer access to some previously-excluded resources. But they have not really addressed the systematic exclusions faced by mountain communities. And they so far appear to be a technology of inequality; favouring those residents who begin with better resource endowments.The paper concludes by offering some recommendations for mountain ICT project practice. 关 键 词：通信技术 电信中心 信息链 山区 秘鲁 社会网络 发展中国家 经济制度
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