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Title Information and communications in the Chinese countryside : a study of three provinces / Michael Minges [and four others]
Published Washington, District of Columbia : World Bank, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 79 pages) : color illustrations, maps
Series A World Bank Study
World Bank study
Contents Front Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Abbreviations; Executive Summary; Note; Tables; Table ES. 1 Policy Matrix of Recommendations; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Interventions to Reduce the Urban-Rural Digital Divide; Central Government Rural Informatization Initiatives; Figures; Figure 2.1 Internet Users per 100 People in China, 2005-12; Table 2.1 China's ICT Statistics, 2012; Figure 2.2 Percentage of Villages with Telephone Services and Computers per 100 Rural Households; Rural ICT Interventions in the Three Provinces; Boxes; Box 2.1 Hotline Numbers; Map
Map 2.1 The Three Provinces Covered by the ProgramTable 2.2 Basic Indicators in the Three Provinces; Figure 2.3 Multifunctional Information Service Station: Guizhou Province; Figure 2.4 ICT Applications in Jilin Agricultural Economics Information Center Company; Figure 2.5 ICT in a Community Center, Shandong; Observations; Notes; Box 2.2 Rural ICT in Other Provinces; Chapter 3The Demand for ICT in Rural China; Key Findings; Figure 3.1 Village Infrastructure and Household ICT Devices, 2011; Figure 3.2 Use and Nonuse of the Internet, 2011
Figure 3.3 Individual Mobile Phone Ownership and Use, 2011Figure 3.4 Main Uses of the Internet, 2011; Figure 3.5 Public Internet Facilities, Availability and Usage, 2011; Figure 3.6 Public Internet Facilities, Location and Management, 2011; Figure 3.7 Private Internet Café, Jilin Province and Distribution of Users, Public Access Facilities, 2011; Observations; Figure 3.8 Sources of Information and Use of Internet Services, 2011; Note; Chapter 4 ICT in Rural Schools; National Initiatives for ICTs in Schools; Table 4.1 Number of Primary and Junior Secondary Schools, Students, and Teachers, 2012
Findings from SurveysTable 4.2 Number of Computers per 100 Students and Percentage of Digital Campuses, 2010; Figure 4.1 Equipment and Facilities in School Surveyed by Province, 2011; Table 4.3 Computer Use in Beijing and Shaanxi Public Schools, 2010; Observations; Figure 4.2 Percentage of Age Group Using the Internet and Distribution of Internet Users by Educational Attainment, 2012; Box 4.1 One-to-One Computing in China; Notes; Chapter 5Public Library Landscape; Chinese Public Library System; Figure 5.1 Scope of CIRSP; Figure 5.2 Public Library Cards and Distribution by Jurisdiction
Figure 5.3 Computers and Terminals in Electronic Media Reading Rooms in Public LibrariesLibrary Survey; Table 5.1 Average Membership Per Capita by Province and Library Level; Observations; Figure 5.4 Availability and Visits to Libraries in Rural Areas of Three Chinese Provinces; Notes; Chapter 6Impact Assessment; Box 6.1 Use of ICT to Raise Incomes in Rural China; Description of Interventions; Findings; Figure 6.1 Financial and Nonfinancial Benefits from Rural ICT Interventions; Figure 6.2 Frequency of Use of Rural ICT Interventions
Summary The report first summarizes the key findings from the following three studies in three provinces (Guizhou, Jilin, Shandong): (a) a demand survey to assess rural ICT access and attitudes; (b) a library study including scoping the status of ICT use in rural libraries; and (c) a limited impact evaluation to examine how ICT interventions have affected rural users. Then the report addresses the challenges and policy recommendations of ICT use in the Chinese Countryside
Notes "A World Bank study."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 5, 2014)
Subject Telecommunication -- China
Digital divide -- China
Libraries and the Internet -- China
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
Digital divide
Libraries and the Internet
Rural conditions
Telecommunication
IT-Infrastruktur.
Informationstechnik.
Ländlicher Raum.
China.
SUBJECT China -- Rural conditions
Subject China
Form Electronic book
Author Minges, Michael, author.
ISBN 9781464802058
146480205X
1464802041
9781464802041