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A Step Towards Empowerment and Digital Inclusion of Rural Public in India

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Somender Poonia,

Mohamed IliyasAuthors Info & Claims

ICEGOV '17: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance

Pages 375 - 383

https://doi.org/10.1145/3047273.3047283

Published: 07 March 2017 Publication History

Abstract

The emergence of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has provided an easy, effective, economic and efficient way to provide various government services and welfare schemes at grass root level. Indian government is also moving towards e-governance, via use of ICT. But, India is a country with huge diversity. As per Socio Economic Caste Census (SECC) 2011, rural India accounted 73 percent of households. People living in these household are having poor literacy rate and not much aware of government's initiatives for upliftment of their lives. These people are engaged in cultivation, casual or manual labour. Lack of awareness, access to ICT and shabby Digital Literacy is preventing them from availing various government schemes and creating the problem of Digital Divide. We carried out a survey to study these reality checks at the ground level and suggested a solution model for bridging the gap of Digital Divide in rural India.

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Walia AEden G(2021)The Worksheet School: COVID-19 Lockdown and Online Schooling in Public Schools of DelhiProceedings of the 12th Indian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/3506469.3506493(140-144)Online publication date: 19-Nov-2021
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