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Category : Computer bulletin boards
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Electronic Access to Rural Information
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Category : Computer bulletin boards
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Electronic Access to Rural Information
Author: Teresa B. BrownPublisher:
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Category : Computer bulletin boards
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Electronic Access to Rural Information
Author: Teresa B. BrownPublisher:
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Category : Information storage and retrieval systems
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Electronic Access to Rural Information
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Category : Computer bulletin boards
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Modern Epidemiology
Author: Kenneth J. RothmanPublisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ISBN: 9780781755641
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
The thoroughly revised and updated Third Edition of the acclaimed Modern Epidemiology reflects both the conceptual development of this evolving science and the increasingly focal role that epidemiology plays in dealing with public health and medical problems. Coauthored by three leading epidemiologists, with sixteen additional contributors, this Third Edition is the most comprehensive and cohesive text on the principles and methods of epidemiologic research. The book covers a broad range of concepts and methods, such as basic measures of disease frequency and associations, study design, field methods, threats to validity, and assessing precision. It also covers advanced topics in data analysis such as Bayesian analysis, bias analysis, and hierarchical regression. Chapters examine specific areas of research such as disease surveillance, ecologic studies, social epidemiology, infectious disease epidemiology, genetic and molecular epidemiology, nutritional epidemiology, environmental epidemiology, reproductive epidemiology, and clinical epidemiology.
Farm Fresh Broadband
Author: Christopher AliPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262367084
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
An analysis of the failure of U.S. broadband policy to solve the rural–urban digital divide, with a proposal for a new national rural broadband plan. As much of daily life migrates online, broadband—high-speed internet connectivity—has become a necessity. The widespread lack of broadband in rural America has created a stark urban–rural digital divide. In Farm Fresh Broadband, Christopher Ali analyzes the promise and the failure of national rural broadband policy in the United States and proposes a new national broadband plan. He examines how broadband policies are enacted and implemented, explores business models for broadband providers, surveys the technologies of rural broadband, and offers case studies of broadband use in the rural Midwest. Ali argues that rural broadband policy is both broken and incomplete: broken because it lacks coordinated federal leadership and incomplete because it fails to recognize the important roles of communities, cooperatives, and local providers in broadband access. For example, existing policies favor large telecommunication companies, crowding out smaller, nimbler providers. Lack of competition drives prices up—rural broadband can cost 37 percent more than urban broadband. The federal government subsidizes rural broadband by approximately $6 billion. Where does the money go? Ali proposes democratizing policy architecture for rural broadband, modeling it after the wiring of rural America for electricity and telephony. Subsidies should be equalized, not just going to big companies. The result would be a multistakeholder system, guided by thoughtful public policy and funded by public and private support.
Bridging the Rural-urban Digital Divide in Residential Internet Access
Author: Brian E. WhitacreIncreasing Access to Health Workers in Remote and Rural Areas Through Improved Retention
Author: World Health OrganizationPublisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9241564016
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 79
Book Description
Accompanying CD-Rom has same title as book.
Technologies of Choice?
Author: Dorothea KleinePublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262018209
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
A new framework for assessing the role of information and communication technologies in development that draws on Amartya Sen's capabilities approach. Information and communication technologies (ICTs)--especially the Internet and the mobile phone--have changed the lives of people all over the world. These changes affect not just the affluent populations of income-rich countries but also disadvantaged people in both global North and South, who may use free Internet access in telecenters and public libraries, chat in cybercafes with distant family members, and receive information by text message or email on their mobile phones. Drawing on Amartya Sen's capabilities approach to development--which shifts the focus from economic growth to a more holistic, freedom-based idea of human development--Dorothea Kleine in Technologies of Choice? examines the relationship between ICTs, choice, and development. Kleine proposes a conceptual framework, the Choice Framework, that can be used to analyze the role of technologies in development processes. She applies the Choice Framework to a case study of microentrepreneurs in a rural community in Chile. Kleine combines ethnographic research at the local level with interviews with national policy makers, to contrast the high ambitions of Chile's pioneering ICT policies with the country's complex social and economic realities. She examines three key policies of Chile's groundbreaking Agenda Digital: public access, digital literacy, and an online procurement system. The policy lesson we can learn from Chile's experience, Kleine concludes, is the necessity of measuring ICT policies against a people-centered understanding of development that has individual and collective choice at its heart.
Author: Kitti Canepi