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Given the rural context in developing countries, how has the Internet influenced their socialization, economic opportunities and access to knowledge resources? Rural areas do not have educational, communication, and transportation facilities. Job opportunities are not many; information on job opportunities in other locations is not easily available. In emergencies like epidemic breaks or floods it is difficult to contact other organizations for help. Even commerce takes place at a primitive level. Do government initiatives to provide Internet access make a difference? To find out, we asked the people.
14November 2016Rekha Jain
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Internet has greatly influenced the way individuals socialize, create and exploit economic opportunities and knowledge resources. However, it is not clear what aspects of socialization, economic benefits and knowledge contribute to the perceived impact of Internet on individuals.
It is expected that citizens in developing countries, in contrast to those in developed countries will perceive the impact of Internet differentially. Poorer Internet penetration rates in developing countries and low levels of developments of institutional infrastructure such as schools, libraries (as sources of knowledge), hospital, and emergency services are some of the factors that contribute to this. Within developing countries, a similar logic holds for the differential perceived impact between urban and rural areas.
Given the rural context in developing countries, we wanted to find out how individuals perceive the impact of Internet in terms of how it has influenced their socialization, economic opportunities and access to knowledge resources. Let us be more precise: socialization here refers to the ability to form social ties, draw information and other resources of individuals in the network for better working and living conditions, social status, happiness or self-esteem. Economic opportunities refer to increased productivity and innovation, value chain re-composition, access to public services and information, savings in transport time, timely access to health and education services, growth in scope of earning and opening new ways of earning more (increasing scope/scale of doing business, increased customer base /supplier base, enhanced product portfolio, enhancing employment opportunity etc.). Knowledge resources refer to ability to search for knowledge and combine knowledge to the available knowledge base.
In India, this has implications for several of the initiatives of the government, such as Digital India, in proliferating Internet, especially in rural areas. Digital India Initiative was launched on July 1, 2015. It aims to provide access to 60 million households in 250,000 village administrative units, through specially developed applications on the Internet to the rural areas, with the hope that the fruits of development are shared by everyone, no matter what their gender, caste, economic and social status, or religion is. The success of this program depends not only on the government policies for proliferating infrastructure and content but also on how citizens perceive how such applications impact their life.
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