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"This encyclopedia provides a thorough examination of concepts, technologies, policies, training, and applications of ICT in support of economic and regional developments around the globe"--Provided by publisher.

Action research methods	p. 1
Adaptive use of ICT in response to disintermediation	p. 6
Analysing a rural community's reception of ICT in Ghana	p. 11
Applying for government grants for ICT in Australia	p. 16
The Arab world, culture and information technology	p. 21
Assessing universal access to ICT in Ghana	p. 28
Assessment of E-government projects	p. 35
Assimilation by communities of Internet technologies	p. 40
Building a framework for the development of RMIT learning networks	p. 47
Building human-centered systems	p. 53
Cambodian youth making connections	p. 66
Capturing community memory with images	p. 72
Caribbean companies and the information superhighway	p. 79
Challenges to community informatics to bridging the digital divide	p. 85
Choosing online learning communities or collaborative learning	p. 90
Citizen-oriented decision making	p. 96
Civic space portal	p. 103
Civil society and the new economy	p. 107
Clustering dynamics of the ICT sector in South Africa	p. 113
Cognitive theories and the design of E-learning environments	p. 119
Connecting dispersed communities on the move	p. 124
Connecting the unconnected in rural Ireland	p. 130
Convergence of ICT and culture	p. 135
Critical mass and self-sustaining activity	p. 138
Crossing the digital divide and putting ICT to work to improve people's lives	p. 144
Cultural barriers of human-computer interaction	p. 146
The definition dilemma of E-commerce	p. 152
Determining whether ICT improves social interactions	p. 159
Developing regional communities in Turkey	p. 164
Developing regional destination marketing systems	p. 169
Developing regional tourism using information communications technology	p. 176
Digital divide and the ICT paradigm generally and in Estonia	p. 182
Digital libraries and development for the illiterate	p. 188
Digital library structure and software	p. 193
Distance education in the era of Internet	p. 199
Distance learning, telematics and rural social exclusion	p. 205
E-Africa initiative for good governance	p. 210
e-Bario and e-Bedian project implementation in Malaysia	p. 214
E-business for SME development	p. 220
E-commerce and small business in regional Australia	p. 227
E-commerce and small tourism firms	p. 233
E-commerce challenges for Caribbean businesses	p. 239
E-commerce in the sub-Saharan Africa	p. 246
E-democracy as a contemporary framework for citizens' deliberation	p. 250
Education trends in thai businesses utilizing information technology	p. 256
E-government and E-democracy in Latin America	p. 263
Electronic government in small island states	p. 269
E-mail as a teaching supplement in Tunisia	p. 275
Employability management of ICT professionals	p. 282
Establishing a "knowledge network" of local and regional development subjects	p. 289
Expanding E-commerce into E-ducation	p. 295
Extended democratic space for citizens' E-participation	p. 299
Forging partnerships to provide computer literacy in Swaziland	p. 305
Formation of a knowledge-based society through utilization of information networking	p. 310
Free/libre open source software for bridging the digital divide	p. 316
Government procurement ICT's impact on the sustainability of SMEs and regional communities	p. 321
How the national E-strategy shapes competitiveness in the information economy	p. 325
ICT aided education for people's empowerment	p. 331
ICT and developing social capital	p. 337
ICT and distance learning for agricultural extension in low income countries	p. 342
ICT and regional development in Australia	p. 348
ICT and the efficient markets hypothesis	p. 353
ICT and the tourism information marketplace in Australia	p. 360
An ICT enabled "community" in rural Nigeria and the UK	p. 367
ICT for Ethiopian community development	p. 370
ICT for social and cultural capital in Pacific island communities	p. 377
ICT in medical education in Trinidad and Tobago	p. 382
ICT in regional development	p. 387
ICT, education, and regional development in Swiss peripheral areas	p. 393
ICT-based community development initiatives in South Africa	p. 399
Imagining APNA Punjab in cyberspace	p. 405
Impact of PFnet services on sustainable rural development	p. 412
Implementation of a health information systems programme	p. 420
Improving electronic information literacy in West African higher education	p. 427
Industry-relevant smart community partnerships	p. 433
Information communication for child development service	p. 439
Information literacy for telecenter users in low-income regional Mexican communities	p. 445
The information society in Ukraine	p. 451
Information technology standards in China	p. 456
Innovation in wireless technologies	p. 458
Intentional online learning plans	p. 463
Introducing electronic governance in the Philippines	p. 468
ITC policy and practice in the Fiji Islands	p. 471
Leveraging digital multimedia training for at-risk teens	p. 475
Measuring the maturity level of a community portal	p. 481
Medical education in the 21st century	p. 488
Mobile ad hoc networks	p. 494
Mobile E-work to support regional and rural communities	p. 497
Modern tools and technologies for the visually impaired	p. 501
National competition policy and broadband provision in Australia	p. 506
Need for community informatics in Malaysia, the	p. 512
NetTel@Africa	p. 518
New frontiers for the new Australian Institute of Music	p. 523
One village one computer campaign in India	p. 528
Open and distance programme for rural women	p. 533
Participatory 3D modelling	p. 538
Pedal powered wireless Internet in the Laotion jungle	p. 544
Planning for electronic government in a remote Malaysian site	p. 550
Political online communities in Saudi Arabia	p. 557
Potential implications of IPv6 for regional development	p. 564
Poverty, inequality and new technologies in Latin America	p. 569
Preparing African higher education faculty in technology	p. 576
Problem-based learning and the design of E-learning environments	p. 581
Producing and sharing free advanced scientific and technological knowledge using the Internet	p. 587
Promoting the culture and development of regional communities with digital libraries	p. 593
Radio for social development	p. 598
Regional tourism and the Internet in Australia	p. 603
Remote indigenous Australian communities and ICT	p. 608
Role of multinationals in recent IT developments in China, the	p. 614
A rural multi-purpose community centre in South Africa	p. 618
Satellite technology in schools	p. 624
Schools-based community networking in Uganda	p. 628
Selling Singapore's E-lifestyle initiative to late adopters	p. 635
Sociocultural animation	p. 640
South African women's rural development and E-commerce	p. 646
South Australian common knowledge community, the	p. 653
State of Internet access in Uganda, the	p. 655
Sustainability issues for Australian rural teleservice centres	p. 659
Sustainable telecentres for local development	p. 665
Technology leapfrogging in Thailand	p. 671
Telecentres in low-income nations	p. 677
Telecommunication problems in rural areas of Armenia	p. 683
Telecommunications sector and Internet access in Africa	p. 687
Telework and the Canadian environment	p. 692
Transforming democracy through ICT	p. 698
Trans-urbanites and collaborative environments in computer networks	p. 704
Urban information systems in Turkish local governments	p. 709
Using virtual mobility to alleviate aspects of social exclusion	p. 715
Voice over IP for rural telecommunication provision	p. 723
Web site development in action research	p. 729
Wireless in Vietnam	p. 735
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