comparative study of multi index methods to prioritize the establishment of itc centers (case study: forg district of darab county)

1. introduction in intellectual paradigms and new rural approaches, it is important to use knowledge and information and subsequently the exchange and transfer tools and technologies. various functions of development can be evaluated easily in a close synergy relationship with information technology and communication functions (mohammad gholi nia et al., 2009). some researchers have explained the necessity and importance of itc according to its provided services and functions in rural areas. they have counted some items such as social development, an increase in villagers’ decision-making potency, local and rural markets development, mitigation of natural disasters’ effects, environmental protection, enriching the rural poor people, improving life quality, etc. as the important functions of itc (molaei hashtchin, 2012). according to the importance and role of itc in rural development, the author of this paper aims to investigate the prioritization of the establishment of this type of service center in the villages of forg distinct of darab county using multi index method in addition to analysis of the transmittance of itc center in the mentioned villages such that finally the results of this study can affect positively on the development process of the villages of the studied area. 2. theoretical framework development’s theorists believe that the main reason of extreme poverty in developing countries is the deprivation of most people from information and information society. for example, based on special conditions, financial systems of countries provide people with helps as subsidy or loan and the people receive them, support the state projects mutually, and participate in development and prevention of deprivation. however, the possibility to inform by the governments is strongly dependent on communication and information technologies and indexes within the country and the possibility of people’s notification and access to state services is mutually dependent on access facilities to this information via the mass media and communication terminals (gurstein, 2000). therefore, in the societies, there is a need to appropriate infrastructures including suitable software and hardware to access to the required information. if communication and information technologies are applied appropriately, they can play an important role in speeding up the development and social and economic dynamism of less developed areas including rural areas (undp, 2006). 3. methodology the research method used in this study is descriptive-analytical. the attributive method was used to collect information. accordingly, the author studied the theory of the topic using the library method, and then used three methods to rank the villages of forg distinct of darab county including method of deviation from the optimum value, saw, and wsm methods. 4. discussion to rank the villages of forg distinct, after the three mentioned steps, the results of these steps were analyzed using multi index methods mentioned previously. followings are the finding of this study:when a decision maker uses different methods of prioritization, he may face conditions that in a real problem no unique ranking of applications of different methods than alternations is obtained. in this case, the decision makers must use consolidated methods to make a decision). in this study, average rating method has been used for the final ranking. 5. conclusion the purpose of this paper was studying comparatively using multi index methods to establish itc centers in the villages of forg distinct of darab county, iran. the results of this study show that the position of each village of forg distinct to establish itc centers is not identical in addition, in terms of the changes of the methods used in this study, wsm and optimum methods are more appropriate for prioritization of the studied villages because of their less variability. as the results of using multi index decision making methods may be no-identical, nowadays consolidated methods such as average rating, borda method, or kapland method are used to remove the mentioned references. the existence of the consolidated methods results in the determination of the position of each studied settlement in terms of development. in addition, the results of the consolidated methods in this study show that morz, ghalatouyeh, and ghaleh no have the best location in terms of establishment priority of itc centers.