Empowering Marginal Communities with Information Networking - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1591407001 ISBN 13: 9781591407003

Publisher: IGI Publishing, 2006

Synopsis

"Empowering Marginal Communities with Information Networking" provides valuable insights into the successes and challenges faced by development project implementers around the world. It includes methodologies, technological constraints, implementation challenges, and sustainability issues of different projects, focusing on the empowerment of marginal communities. "Empowering Marginal Communities with Information Networking" supports rural technology and information systems in order to strengthen grass-roots institutions by blending indigenous knowledge and modern technology. This book includes success stories, drawbacks, and facts and figures in the social transformation processes of globalization.

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About the Author

Hakikur Rahman, PhD. is the Project Coordinator of the Sustainable Development Networking Programme (SDNP) in Bangladesh, a global initiative of UNDP since December 1999. He is also the Secretary of South Asia Foundation Bangladesh Chapter. Before joining SDNP he worked as the Director, Computer Division, Bangladesh Open University. He has written several books and many articles/papers on computer education for the informal sector and distance education.

Edition details

• Publisher: IGI Publishing
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1591407001
• ISBN 13: 9781591407003
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300
• Editor: Rahman Hakikur