Fostering a Digitally Inclusive Aging Society in China : The Potential of Public Libraries

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 020.28 Library and information sciences
• Thông tin xuất bản: Washington, DC, 2014
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 312002
• Chủ đề: 1. ACCESS POINT; 2. ACCESS POINTS; 3. ACCESS TO COMPUTERS; 4. ACCESS TO INFORMATION; 5. ACCESS TO THE INTERNET

Tóm tắt

 The World Bank has been supporting this policythrough theprogram China Rural Information and Communications: Technical Assistance on Design and Impact Evaluation, which aims to support the government make decisions about potential scaling up of innovative ICT pilot projects and to generate and disseminate knowledge about the impacts of ICT in rural China. Three activities were undertakenwith a focus on a trio of provinces (Guizhou, Jilin, and 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.