Evaluating Accessibilities to Village Community Centers via Rural Amenity Resources Information

The OCHIN community information network: bringing together community health centers, information technology, and data to support a patient-centered medical village.

Creating integrated, comprehensive care practices requires access to data and informatics expertise. Information technology (IT) resources are not readily available to individual practices. One model of shared IT resources and learning is a "patient-centered medical village." We describe the OCHIN Community Health Information Network as an example of this model; community practices have come to...

The Impacts of Information Technology on Rural Development (Case: Southern Khorasan Village)

Nowadays information technology indices are being concerned as measures of development. This in turn will lead to many advantages’ in different areas for the evolved party. However, rural development is responsible for social and cultural changes. These could be exemplified itself in increase in job opportunities and rural income, improvement in nutrition’s standards as well as educational and...

RURAL ACTION RESEARCH PROGRAMME ASSET BASED APPROACHES TO RURAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Literature review and resources

eChoupals: A Study on the Financial Sustainability of Village Internet Centers in Rural Madhya Pradesh

Over the past few years, the long-term sustainability of ICT initiatives has increasingly come under question. Despite persistent doubts, governments, international agencies, NGOs, and private companies are pressing ahead to set up more such projects. This paper studies the anancial sustainability of India’s largest rural ICT initiative known as eChoupal. The eChoupals are distinct from other t...

Rural Connectivity with Village Operators

South Africa has approximately 26500 primary and secondary schools, of which at least 17000 are in remote rural villages. None of these rural schools have any form of Internet connectivity. The same rural villages may have one health facility for every 20 schools and very few other public or community service centres. This paper presents a model that is being developed and tested in South Afric...