User Technology Readiness in ICT for Social Development Initiatives

Supriya, K K

dc.contributor.author	Supriya, K K
dc.date.accessioned	2022-12-16T10:15:41Z
dc.date.available	2022-12-16T10:15:41Z
dc.date.issued	2016
dc.identifier.uri	http://dspace.iimk.ac.in:80/xmlui/handle/2259/1089
dc.description	Research Advisory Committee: Dr. M P Sebastian (Chair-person), Dr. Mohammed Shahid Abdulla (Member), Dr. Naveen Amblee (Member):: Hardcopy of the thesis is available in the library. Please contact the help desk for reference.	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Information and Communication technology (ICT) is fuelling the growth of global economy. Intelligent use of ICT is a key to transform societies and it can contribute to the development objectives of a nation mainly through three ways: (1) serving as a tool to tackle some of the real world issues like health, education, agriculture, poverty, etc. (2) acting as a medium for efficient delivery of government services, and (3) promoting techniques to tackle the problem of information asymmetry. ICT for Development (ICT4D) is one of the dominant themes in the domain of Social Informatics studies. It encompasses socio-economic research that examines the ways in which the technological artefact and the human social context mutually constitute the ICT ensemble (Kling, 2000). ICT4D is defined in this study as the design and use of ICT and e-Services that consider social context and socio–economic development...	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode	en_US
dc.subject	ICT	en_US
dc.subject	User Technology	en_US
dc.subject	Social Informatics	en_US
dc.title	User Technology Readiness in ICT for Social Development Initiatives	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US