Overcoming Information Poverty

• Author : Anthony Mckeown
• Publisher : Chandos Publishing
• Release Date : 2016-07-06
• ISBN : 9780081012314

Overcoming Information Poverty: Investigating the Role of Public Libraries in The Twenty-First Century considers the role of public libraries in alleviating information poverty and targeting social exclusion, using a three-level information poverty framework. The book proposes a model for understanding the concept of information poverty, develops indicators for its measurement, and provides recommendations for service improvement based on analysis of public library services at macro (strategic), meso (community) and micro (individual) levels. The topic is of theoretical and practical importance

• Author : Ken Guy,Erik Arnold
• Publisher : World Bank Publications
• Release Date : 1995-01-01
• ISBN : 0821332163

World Bank Discussion Paper No. 281.This study examines the best practices of eight OECD countries--Canada, Germany, Ireland, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States--in designing national policies and programs to accelerate the effective use of information technology in support of industrial competitiveness. New technologies in computing, communications, and multimedia are changing the competitive advantage of industries, services, and entire economies. Enterprises must therefore increase their technological development and education through government assistance.The emerging experience is

• Author : Amanda Spink,Charles Cole
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release Date : 2006-01-31
• ISBN : 1402036671

New Directions in Human Information Behavior, co-edited by Drs. Amanda Spink and Charles Cole provides an understanding of the new directions, leading edge theories and models in human information behavior. Information behavior is conceptualized as complex human information related processes that are embedded within an individual’s everyday social and life processes. The book presents chapters by an interdisciplinary range of scholars who show new directions that often challenge the established views and paradigms of information behavior studies. Beginning with

• Author : Susan Larson
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2021-09-30
• ISBN : 9781000456387

This volume explores the history, evolution, and future of Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies as a discipline, a pedagogical tool, and a set of working practices by bringing together a diverse group of renowned specialists to examine how the field has grown out of and radically reconsidered some of the basic premises of British Cultural Studies since the 1950s to address the many cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking world. The chapters in this volume address How Cultural Studies is being practiced

• Author : Alfredo M. Ronchi
• Publisher : Springer
• Release Date : 2019-04-12
• ISBN : 9783030015961

This book explores the main elements of e-Democracy, the term normally used to describe the implementation of democratic government processes by electronic means. It provides insights into the main technological and human issues regarding governance, government, participation, inclusion, empowerment, procurement and, last but not least, ethical and privacy issues. Its main aim is to bridge the gap between technological solutions, their successful implementation, and the fruitful utilization of the main set of e-Services totally or partially delivered by governments or

• Author : Stewart Marshall,Wallace Taylor,Xing Huo Yu
• Publisher : IGI Global
• Release Date : 2004-01-01
• ISBN : 9781591401322

In many international settings, regional economies are declining resulting in lowered opportunities for these communities. This result attacks the very fabric of cohesion and purpose for these regional societies, and increases social, health, economic and sustainability problems. Community informatics research, education and practice is an emerging area in many countries, which seeks to address these issues. The primary objective of Using Community Informatics to Transform Regions is to provide leaders, policy developers, researchers, students and community workers with successful strategies

• Author : John Willinsky
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2002-05-03
• ISBN : 9781135958749

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

• Author : John Pateman,Joe Pateman
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2018-11-06
• ISBN : 9781351784320

Managing Cultural Change in Public Libraries argues that changes to library Strategies and Systems can lead to transformations in library Structures that can, in turn, shape and determine Organisational Culture. Drawing on Management theories, as well as the ideas of Marx and Maslow, the authors present an ambitious Analytical Framework that can be used to better understand, support and enable cultural change in public libraries. The volume argues for radical – but sustainable – transformations in public libraries that require significant changes

• Author : John Weiss
• Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
• Release Date : 2005
• ISBN : 9781845424701

This book is a must read for researchers and students interested in poverty, poverty reduction, social welfare and development. It provides systematic and comparative studies on the design features, achievements and problems of targeting, set against specific national contexts. The economic focus of the analysis is balanced with sections on the political economy of targeting and management aspects (administrative systems and incentives). While the considerable variations between targeting mechanisms, schemes and contexts demonstrate the difficulties of blanket policy prescriptions, the

• Author : Björn Sören Gigler
• Publisher : World Bank Publications
• Release Date : 2015-04-10
• ISBN : 9781464804212

The knowledge of how to use information technology is a critical human capability for a person to realize the various things he/she values doing or being in all dimensions of his/her life. At the center of this process is a person s ability to access, process and act upon information facilitated through the use of new technologies.

• Author : Laurent Elder,Rohan Samarajiva,Alison Gillwald,Hernan Galperin
• Publisher : IDRC
• Release Date : 2014-01-20
• ISBN : 9781552505717

Information and communication have always opened opportunities for the poor to earn income, reduce isolation, and respond resiliently to emergencies. With mobile phone use exploding across the developing world, even marginalized communities are now benefiting from modern communication tools. This book explores the impacts of this unprecedented technological change. Drawing on unique household surveys undertaken by research networks active in 38 developing countries, it helps to fill knowledge gaps about how the poor use information and communication technologies (ICTs). How have

• Author : Mutula, Stephen M.
• Publisher : IGI Global
• Release Date : 2009-07-31
• ISBN : 9781605664217

"This book provides valuable insights into the current state of the digital economy and the ability of SMEs to leverage Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) so that they may overcome their traditional laggard position in the global business market"--Provided by publisher.

• Author : Nurul Islam
• Publisher : CRC Press
• Release Date : 2006-02-28
• ISBN : 1560223014

Fight rural poverty through the creation of significant policy mechanisms, microenterprises, and employment programs The majority of the world’s poor live in Asia, and most of these live in rural areas. These areas are also infamous for the food insecurity and malnutrition associated with poverty. Making even a modest dent in rural Asian poverty has the potential to realize large gains in global human development. Reducing Rural Poverty in Asia provides evidence-based guidelines for policymakers in developing countries, for

• Author : Dr. M. Koteswara Rao
• Publisher : Allied Publishers
• Release Date : 2011-10-07
• ISBN : 9788184247107

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been on the agenda in India for quite some time. The private sector is generally more active in this area than the Governmental and public sector; and the situation is slowly changing. The concept of CSR is finally coming out of the purview of ‘doing social good’ and is fast becoming a ‘business necessity’. This approach to CSR is gaining ground and many corporate houses are realizing the benefits they get in business by extending

• Author : Serwan M. J. Baban
• Publisher : Springer
• Release Date : 2014-07-03
• ISBN : 9783319073804

This book provides sound conceptual understanding of the current approach to management and decision making regarding geo-based challenges in developing countries that tend to suffer from information poverty and subjectivity and are reactive. The book also provides the necessary technical tools to energize research thinking and develop locally driven practical and sustainable solutions, ultimately moving management and decision making from being reactive to being proactive. This book fills a void as there are no published books to show the way