期刊名称:International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology
电子版ISSN:1814-0556
出版年度:2008
卷号:4
期号:3
页码:3-5
出版社:University of the West Indies
摘要:Welcome to Volume 4 Issue 3 of the International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology (IJEDICT). In this issue we have articles on planning, policies, frameworks and strategies for ICT provisionin Australia, Bangladesh, Botswana,Cameroon, China, Ethiopia, Iran, Lebanon, Malaysia, Republic of the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Turkey and Uganda.It also brings more postings to the blog: "CEDICT: Communication, Education and Development using ICT" -http://cedict.blogspot.com/The first article in this issue tackles a reality faced by so many developing countries ¨CICT provision to the poor. In their article, "An extended sharing model to provide ICT services to the rural poor", D uc Dang, Bilkish Sultana and Katsuhiro Umemoto investigate the shared access model through telecentres, phone kiosks or multiple community centres that has become the standard to cope with financial problems in providing ICT service to the poor in rural areas of many developing countries. Instead of just having shared access, their study suggests that "sharing" can be applied at all stages in the value chain of ICT service