Can information and communications technology applications contribute to poverty reduction? Lessons from rural India

By Simone Cecchini, C. Scott. 2003

462 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Business and International Management, Information Systems, Media Technology

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In Business and International Management

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2. Thurasamy Ramayah
3. Geoff Walsham
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5. S. Govindarajan
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In Information Systems

1. Chrisanthi Avgerou
2. Kwadwo Asenso Okyere
3. Thurasamy Ramayah
4. Geoff Walsham
5. S. Govindarajan
6. C. Glendenning
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In Media Technology

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2. Geoff Walsham
3. Kwadwo Asenso Okyere
4. S. Govindarajan
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6. S. Babu

Citations in the corpus

• Networks, Technology, and Entrepreneurship: A Field Quasi-experiment among Women in Rural India (2017, unknown): “A promising approach to eliminating disadvantages is the use of ICTs, including Internet-enabled computers, to provide information to rural citizens, especially women (Best & Maier, 2007; Cecchini & Scott, 2003; Sharma, 2003).”
• ICT4D research: reflections on history and future agenda (2017, background): “…well-being beyond basic economics, as has already started in the work on ICTs and the CA. Systemic poverty is a further issue in many countries and Cecchini and Scott (2003) provided an early article on the use of ICTs to benefit the poor, noting the benefits of approaches, such as the use of…”
• Farmers' information needs and search behaviors: Case study in Tamil Nadu, India (2012, methodology): “This paper emanated from a project funded by IKP Trust of India to whom we are grateful.”
• Technology acceptance among micro-entrepreneurs in marginalized social strata: The case of social innovation in Bangladesh (2017, background): “…argued that information and communication technology (ICT) can reduce thepoverty level in a country, ifmarginalisedpeople are supported by appropriate access to information, education, health, aswell asfinancial services (Ashraf and Malik, 2011; Cecchini and Scott, 2003; Thatchenkery et al., 2004).”
• Information systems in developing countries: a critical research review (2008, background): “The strategic potential of IS innovation in DCs tends to be discussed in macro-societal transformative terms (Cecchini and Scott, 2003; Ngwenyama et al ., 2006).”