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标题：Editorial: Using ICT for rural development
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作者：Stewart Marshall ; Wal Taylor
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：2007
卷号：3
期号：2
页码：2-3
出版社：University of the West Indies
摘要：Welcome to Volume 3 Issue 2 of the International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology (IJEDICT). This issue contains articles concerned with using information and communication technologies (ICT) for rural empowerment. It brings articles from and/or aboutPakistan, India, Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Malaysia, New Zealand and Australia.In the article "Study of diffusion and adoption of Male Annihilation Technique", Zaheeruddin Mirani describes the "Male Annihilation Technique" (MAT) -an economical, non-polluting, non-hazardous, environment friendly, less laborious technology to control the fruit fly . Despite all these advantages offered by MAT, it has failed to reach the maximum level of adoption among the grow ers of Pakistan particularly of Sindh province. Thearticle describes research that identified barriers in the rate of adoption of MAT and also identified the information sources that have created trust among farmers resulting in the dissemination of MAT on a larger scale